Internet on Blowfish

A new form of Comment spam? – url shorteners and redirection?

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:26:22 +0000

Peer to Peer downloading (Torrents) and network problems

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:43:35 +0000

Bad Bot go away!

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:19:38 +0000

Gmail default contact for a friend with more than one email address

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:07:07 +0000

Googlemail down :(

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:05:05 +0000

Moving to a new web server

Fri, 15 May 2009 16:39:17 +0000

Eurocon 2009 – More than just simulation

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:12:40 +0000

Learn french in 10 days…. assuming you don't need sleep?

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:22 +0000

Choosing a web browser – why can't I just put up with the default

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:25:41 +0000

GPS Logging from my PDA…needs a little work I think

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:40:20 +0000

Sunday European Campaign – on target so far…

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:11:28 +0000

Aces High 2 – Sunday European Campaign series begins!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:51:47 +0000

BBC iPlayer – it might reach your iPhone but not my PDA (…yet)

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:14:13 +0000

Stumble upon – first stumbles

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:39:12 +0000

Spammer comments on my blog pretending to be someone else!

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:56:22 +0000

Spam wars – "determination of damages" hearing date set

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:21 +0000

BBC iPlayer – still not worth installing but worth watching online

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:55:31 +0000

Music I like: ViRGiNiE

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:21:00 +0000

Ever wonderered what the web server looks like?

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:16:29 +0000

Vanity searching on Microsofts new live.com portal

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:06:40 +0000

First ever competition for this site (and first video too)

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:25:29 +0000

I know what you’re all thinking, nothing has changed here lately. I’ve been working on things in the background but today marks the first of a whole bundle of waiting posts. This post includes my site’s first ever competition as well as it’s first ever video, created using the magic of my PDA’s video camera, Quicktime Pro, Macromedia Flash Video Encoder,Macromedia Dreamweaver, One not very willing actor (James) and a 3M Snap Band….

I wanted the video to be here, but it needed some special code which won’t work through the movabletype software I use here (It’s a security thing, that’s good!). Follow this link to see the video

I know what you’re going to say, “don’t give up your day job, and you won’t need to worry about being available for the Oscar ceremony…”. I know that too, but it’s been fun making it work and I’ve learnt some things too.

Competition Bit
I bet most of you jumped straight here wondering what you can win? Well, I’m giving away a 3M Snap Band as modelled by James in the video. They are reflective bands that will wrap around things, like James arm, a leg or a bike handle bar and so on. You can roll them flat and they will hold that position. As well as the video, you can find out all about them at www.3MBeSeen.co.uk. Now the weathers getting darker it makes sense for the children to have something reflective on them. As James is showing, they happen to be fun as well as safe. Better still, they only cost 3.00.

Wining will be easy. During the next week a new post will appear on this site called “Enter Now to win!”. If you are the first person to comment, you win.

Remember that comments don’t appear immediately, I have to moderate them all to stop all the spam from appearing. If you are having trouble posting a comment, send me an email instead. I’ll use the timestamp on the email to log your time of entry (that is, my server timestamp, so don’t try changing your computer clock!).
A couple of simple rules. 1) I decide who wins, my decision is final. 2) I get to change the rules whenever I feel like it. 3) I’ll be posting the band to you if you live in the UK. If you don’t live in the UK then there’s no need to enter. 4) You can enter on behalf of someone else if you like (eg If you are in Australia but you want your prize posted to someone in the UK, that’s fine). 5)

Now, if you’re interested in how this all came about, read on….

Spam again – at least this one can read, if not write

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:04:30 +0000

Course Complete!

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:30:59 +0000

Quote of the day: "The failure rate of hard drives is 100%…"

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:53:44 +0000

New village website

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:13:43 +0000

Some people try and spam anything

Sun, 28 May 2006 22:34:27 +0000

Interesting Statistics for the new .eu domain

Sun, 21 May 2006 15:22:08 +0000

The CD/DVD-Drive and the Paperclip (a.k.a. how to get your DVD out of your computer when the power is off)

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:02:12 +0000

Majestic12 – a distributed search engine

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:42:59 +0000

Subdomain Redirects

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:18:34 +0000

JCB Song

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:24:32 +0000

Ha! – there must be a third….

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:35:33 +0000

The award for most annoying website of the week goes to…

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:24:45 +0000

How to resize a photo (jpg) to send in an email – (the quick way for Win XP)

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:29:42 +0000

Strange download behaviour?

Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:22:27 +0000

The Google Experiment Results

Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:05:36 +0000

Last posting date was today?

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:01:14 +0000

Coldfusion is better

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:53:25 +0000

My mark on the web server scene

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:40:17 +0000

The Australian company that wishes it was American?

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:41:46 +0000

Coldfusion MX is no fun today :(

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:11:45 +0000

As some of you know, my webserver runs coldfusion which keeps the business site ticking over nicely. Well, normally it does, but just recently it seems to be playing up and the only way I discover this is when the web pages no longer work.

Dangerous Words

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:05:22 +0000