Archive for June, 2008
My shiny new phone
Today my new phone turned up. My provider rang me yesterday asking if I wanted to end my current contract early, and they’d send me a new phone. Well, offers like that I can’t refuse. Especially when they provide me with free internet access on it too. So, I’ve moved from a Sony Ericsson K800i [...]
Firefox 3
Firefox 3 was officially released last night. They were hoping to get 2 million downloads in 24 hours but within about 2 hours they seemed to have 2.5 million. Not bad going. It also meant that getting hold of the download was difficult. Never-the-less I was able to and tried it out. Now, I tried [...]
Coming Soon…
I’m in the process, at the moment, of some interesting changes to the BMTG site . Instead of each show/concert page being individually written (with a few calls to scripts to display photos, etc) I’m creating a totally automated page generation system – simply tell it the show name, call the generator script and you get a show [...]
Computers & Child Safety
My daughter has her own laptop which she has in her bedroom. For safety I use CyberPatrol to restrict her usage of it. However, she’s come across a problem with it, that I believe also affects most other software of this type. It has time management facilities, where I can stop her from using the PC [...]
Wi-Fi Gone Bye-Bye
Now, I’m not a network expert in any way shape or form. Therefore when my Nintendo Wii started having network problems last night, I was in a bit of a panic. I also have a wireless streaming MP3-thingy in the living room and that wasn’t working either. However, I knew my wireless network was working [...]
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Firefox 3 – Now installed!
Yep, enough of my critical plugins are now working on Firefox 3 that I installed it. Hurrah. But, of course, this is me so thing went wrong. First of all, it didn’t seem to find my bookmarks correctly, so I decided to get Foxmarks to simply download everything from it’s server. Oops. Now the smart [...]
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