Archive for the 'General' Category

I agree…

Monday, July 4th, 2005

…Dell Sucks
I had so many problems with them over a server I bought last year, that I truely never want to deal with them again, and I always advise people not to buy from them. The response I got was along the lines of “screw you”, but obviously in much more polite terms. [...]

Dilbert rocks

Monday, July 4th, 2005

This is brilliant, really.

Banks to speed up, slowly

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Via Lockergnome I found an article at The Register about how the internet is forcing UK banks to speed up transfers.
Two things to say about it, about time they got off their arses, and why do we have to wait till the end of 2007 (plus the extra time as it will obviously be late) [...]

Next Darwin Award Winner

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

I think I’ve got a candidate for a future winner of the Darwin Awards.
Jordan’s pregnant with Peter Andre’s child.
The kid doesn’t stand a chance coming from that kind of gene pool.

Changing yet again…..

Friday, February 18th, 2005

Wordpress has been upgraded, and now includes funky CMS for normal ‘pages’.
Sounds quite a funky useful thing, so I wiped the site to start from scratch, using the blog as the main site, and entering the various articles I got round to into the pages CMS thingy.

Bill Gives Away AntiSpyware

Friday, February 18th, 2005

He’s done it. Bill’s gone and commited to giving it away.
Microsoft AntiSpyware that is. Very nice of him.
As I mentioned at the forums, could it prompt companies like Lavasoft to moan about stiffling competition though?
Still, overall I think it’s good of Bill to say it will be free. …

SEO Roadshow Success

Monday, September 20th, 2004

I went along to the SEO Roadshow in London at the weekend.
What an event, really good to go there and meet various people. I got to see Ammon Johns and Dave Child again and met the other member of Cre8asite’s staff present, Peter Da Vanzo.

Cre8asite Forums reach the terrible two’s!

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Two years for the Cre8asite forums already? Wow, that seems to have gone pretty quickly.

Justify it

Wednesday, August 11th, 2004

One of the main things I picked up from one of my teachers at school was justify changes.
He was a Design & Technology teacher, so when we were learning about things like Point-of-Sale packaging and marketting kind of things we would try and get us to justify what we were doing and how we were [...]

I’m an Amiga!

Monday, August 9th, 2004

Which OS are You?

Which rock’s because I loved my old Amiga 500, it had a whole extra half meg of ram ya know!
Street Fighter 2, the original Battle Isle, some Stealth Fighter game, Boxing Manager thingy….. Speedball 2!! Wow, that was the best game ever.
Yup, I sure don’t mind being an Amiga
Find out [...]