The other day I had a ‘renewal notice’ for a domain I own. It came from a company called Nominet UK which suggests I pay them £94 which is around AU$200. Bearing in mind I can get a renewal here for two years for AU$99 I think I might pass on that. In fact I’m … More Play it again Sam!

I’ve got loads of Widgets on my screen… a few from Microsoft, but most from Yahoo. I have time (UK and Aus) Weather (UK and Aus) one that searches for my pictures on the machine and does a slide-show… also post-it notes, system information, news and a Dilbert thing that gets the latest cartoon. Unfortunately … More Widgets ahoy!

Software seems to have gone haywire – again. From here it looks as though the ads and sidebars have all dropped to the bottom of the page for some reason. I have *no* idea why they’d do that… but that’s what it looks like Will have to try to sort it out in the morning, … More Flaming software… grrr

I suggested to Sally, my trainer in the gym, that I’d be happy to sort out a blog for her and even a personal website… not to hard really because it’s fundamentally all automated. I also suggested I’d have a look at her ‘business’ site Fitness Recruiter but I think working on that wouldn’t be … More Bright Ideas

Never heard of this woman before today but it seems she is the owner of the most visited blog on the planet… she says. According to Technorati she’s 47th… either way she must be doing or saying something damn good cos I get *nowhere* near that figure 🙂 In fact, much as I hate to … More Xu Jinglei – Whu Xhatei?

Just reading a report about some clean air technology being developed in North Wales, UK. Basically it’s a ‘box’ that replaces a cars exhaust system and traps dangerous greenhouse gases and stores them in a form that is amenable to action by genetically modified algae. This action turns the residue into a biofuel! Seems almost … More Go clean. Go Wales!!

Was reading today how ‘traditional’ TV could be ‘dead’ by the end of the year. This rather startling prediction was based on the attempt of the founders of Kazzoo and Skype (Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis) to launch what can only be described as Internet TV. Seems they have 150 channels all ready to roll … More The next 'big thing'?

They’ve spent the past few weeks of their holidays playing games online. The games are supposed to expire after an hour but if you leave the connection open you can play them for house apparently. So of course… they’ve left them open. Naturally leaving them open uses bandwidth as the servers keep checking they are … More Flaming kids!

I updated this blog yesterday and discovered three days posts were missing. Went off to try to find out why and discovered the server was being upgraded and the work wasn’t finished. Ok… partly my fault that I hadn’t been watching closely but in all fairness I was told the work was going to be … More Talking of struggling…