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Geeky Post: Website Development

Geeky Post: Website Development

This is a Geeky post and in it I’m going to show you how my website has developed over the years. Version 1 My first version was created in HTML and looked like this: It had sections to it: Personal, Carrer and Occult. It had Quick Links News on the home page. The Navigation was [...]

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Technology Review: My Book Home Network Storage

Like most homes today mine has more than one computer. I have infact two, a laptop for surfing the net and a desktop in the office / guest room. But I was becoming increasingly fustrated with having my music, pictures and documents split across the two. I’d log on to my desktop to find a [...]

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Wireless again thanks to BT

I had been having some problems with connecting wirelessly to my BT Home Hub. I ended up plugging it in by the wire to the hub and even then it was slow. I emailed BT expecting never to get a response or waiting weeks to get it sorted (which was driving me mad, because I [...]

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Another breech of our privacy?

I recently recieved an email about a new service that will give out your mobile number to people, after checking it’s ok to do with you supposedly. The company behind the 118 800 service, Connectivity, has bought 15m numbers from list brokers, market researchers and online businesses that store personal details, amounting to 40% of [...]

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Teenage couple saved from lightening strike by Ipod

A teenage couple were in the news a few weeks ago (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8109836.stm), they where saved by the girl being “plugged in” to her ipod and by holding hands. This made me realise two things: 1. I recently give my Ipod to my mum. 2. I now don’t have a partner to hold hands with [...]

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The dreded BT

I placed an order for a phone line and broadband online with BT. I had no choice than to go with BT as I needed a phone line “installing”. They were suppose to be coming to install a line (at a charge of £125!) on my birthday (14th May 09). By “install” they mean flick [...]

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Blackberry App. World Store

Blackberry have released an App. World Store. I couldn’t resist downloading it to have a look. I needed a bit of help from Vodafone, which was provided in the form of a video: It sounded good, but I was dissapointed. The apps were mainly american and although it was suppose to be localised to the [...]

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Adobe Flash Error’s

Adobe who has an excellent reputation for making quality software has messed up. Everytime I try to load a page with any sort of flash on (this includes embedded You Tube Video’s) my Windows Internet Explorer crashes. To be fair to Adobe I don’t know if it’s their issue or Mircosoft’s but they better get [...]

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Technical Difficulties

If you have tried to access my site in the last few days you will have had problems. Appologies for this, I blame it on Word Press. Although a fantastic tool for providing blog entries but occasionally (like most technology) it messes up. Hopefully it’s sorted now! I would like to thank Dataflame my hosting [...]

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Ups and Downs

The weekend started really on Saturday. David and I had arranged to have a chat following the weekend prior (see Job Interview & David). I had picked up my new BlackBerry Storm (see The phone we forgot) prior to setting out to drive to his, an Up. The Down about this was that as I [...]

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