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OS X Yosemite Sam public beta is here – apparently the rootinest tootinest OS...
“I’m givin’ ya one last chance ta surrenda!” When Apple announce their forthcoming new operating system OS X Yosemite at WWDC 2014, the first thing that came to mind was the Warner Bros. cartoon...
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It’s that time of year again! Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day and a Error...
Here’s Bing Crosby to sing SysAdmin Appreciation Day classic tunes: “PHP scripts roasting on an open fire, web designers nibbling at your toes..” Kill it with fire! Or try turning it off and on again....
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It’s rabbit season! No, it’s duck season! No, it’s Clarkson season!
Photo (above): Top Gear studio audience car park, also moped certification test area amongst other things. What drives me completely mad is that it appears to be open season on Jeremy Clarkson. Sure,...
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Social Experimentation: Revenge of the Mutant Splat Gore Friend (or Lover)
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, it’s hard When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, you know it’s hard (And if it isn’t there’s always help from the medical fraternity in pill form) - Dr...
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Divorce anniversary
Today is the first anniversary of my decree nisi. It’s been a strange year all told. I’ve dated a bit. But more often than not I’ve been too bloomin’ knackered to do much else after work other than...
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Virgin Sacrifice: I’m now committed to BT
I’ve cancelled my Virgin Media contract and have committed to BT for the remainder of the contract (and hopefully beyond). Even though Virgin Media could reduce the 152Mb broadband connection to £22...
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Why free email costs you more than you think..
I’ve been in the email business for a lot longer than many people at Google, Yahoo! and even Microsoft have been alive. I wrote my first email system entirely in BASIC for my GCSE Computer Studies...
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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) plays John William’s Epic Movie Themes
Yesterday I popped down to Bournemouth to watch the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra perform some of composer John William’s most famous (and epic) movie themes. They were very, very, very, very good....
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Clunk Click Every Trip: TLS (SSL) is becoming increasingly important – even...
SSL (otherwise known as TLS, SSL’s successor) plays a very important part on the internet. It can be used to protect sensitive information such as account credentials when logging in to your webmail,...
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Rebooting the blog
Given my blog has been moved across so many servers over the past six years or so, I thought it about time to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch. This will mean that many of the articles...
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Sky doesn’t prioritise HD movies on Sky+HD box because..
.. they take longer to download. I kid you not! Despite paying Sky an extra £5 a month specifically to receive HD movies, this is the single most ridiculous thing I’ve come across this week. As a...
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A thoroughly modern breakfast
Okay, I don’t do breakfast quite like this everyday (with exception of the mocha – it’s a necessity), but I do read the newspapers and magazines on the iPad as a daily ritual. The Times tablet edition...
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Chromecast is a first class video streamer
On Friday I saw this tweet: As a big fan of video on demand, and having heard good things about Google’s Chromecast, I thought £18 wasn’t bad at all. But it turns out that all the online Tesco...
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Finding gifts used to be difficult. Not any more!
At the risk of sounding laddish, as a bloke I’m forever wondering what to buy people (especially the ladies in my family) as thank-you gifts. Thankfully somebody has come to the rescue in the form of...
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Happy 50th Birthday Charlie & The Chocolate Factory!
Hard to believe that Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is 50th years old this year, but it is! I was quite privileged to work on the 2005 Tim Burton adaptation of the book. It’s not...
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Cats trying to avoid baths
If there’s only one YouTube video you watch this year, make it this one: and for dog lovers:
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For those reading via RSS/Feedly, etc.
Since “re-launching” the blog, I’ve noticed just how aggressive the likes of Feedly are caching all my previous entries through the RSS feed. You may need to remove this blog from your Feed/RSS reader...
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Heron Mews
Saw this fella on the way up to the station this morning on my daily walk. Him and lots and lots of cats. Fish must be lively today.
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iWatch, you watch, bank manager cries: the iPhone 6 – now comes six times...
I don’t know.As much as I like Apple products, I’m now utterly sick of iOS and iCloud.iCloud because of security and availability concerns; it’s difficult to access (from any other devices that are not...
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Western Super Meh!
USA – 0 South Korea, China and Japan – several hundred points So huge, you’re going to need bigger trousers. Thankfully Apple will sell you special iPants along with an iBelt. All interconnected,...
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