Monthly Archives: September 2004

Anyone for G-Mail?

Well I got mine thanks to The Gir but if you still haven;t managed then you may want to try looking over at Spread Firefox. You have to have a website sporting a Firefox button and you must not already … Continue reading

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Well any doubts I may have had are pretty much squished

I’ve been a little concerned by the sheer number of stupidly large storms / hurricanes that seem to be hitting Florida this year. These things are doing a load of damage and killing far too many people and yet the … Continue reading

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Love and hate – my Mandrake Linux 10 stories

Hate – the fact that my Microsoft USB mouse crashes the install and the system at every oppouritunity Love – that all I need is to use the USB – PS2 converter to solve the problem Hate – I had … Continue reading

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Home early today

The past week seems to have zipped by in a mass rush of training days and work related goodness. We had another training session today – Project Management 101 – and so I got to leave a little early. Hopefully … Continue reading

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So I’m in bed…

And a wanted to share a number of recent observations: (these are maybe worthy of individual posts but most likely not… plus I’m tired, on the eve of a very big day and am enjoying a glass of scotch) Eric … Continue reading

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Mozilla Firefox – Just one step from first release

I’ve been holding off on recommending FireFox to my less techy friends on the basis that it is still pre release software. Yeah sure, even in this state it is more stable, faster and more secure than IE but I … Continue reading

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Looks like its curtains for Belle

You all know who I’m talking about right? Belle de Bloody Jour? The most famous hooker ever to post on a weblog? Well she’s shutting up shop…

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PHPMailer – a very classy class

Just a quicky as I am swamped at the moment but I recently ran into a problem with my “other” webhost and sending email via PHP. For those in the know there is a built in PHP function called mail() … Continue reading

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It got hot again

Summer seems to have finally arrived in Jersey and is making up for what it missed by being oppressive and nasty. So I’m gonna sit down with and ice cold beer, a database schematic and Bullet Proof Monk. Problem is … Continue reading

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How well do you know your mobile?

An article on the BBC website grabbed my attention last night. Basically those pesky safety campaigners are asking manufacturers of mobile phones to print the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of each model on the phone – kind of like the … Continue reading

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