Category Archives: Thoughts

IMAP

IMAP is something which I never really knew about, for some reason I just assumed that it was some old technology, and that POP had taken it’s place. Probably due to the fact that Gmail offered POP + SMTP, as … Continue reading

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Orange Broadband

It seem’s like they have been getting quite a bit of bad press recently, but I’ve personally never had any problems with them, since signing up in 2004. But I’ve never actually had to ring up their customer support, until … Continue reading

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My ISP Mustn’t be very happy

I’ve just done a (very) rough calculation of how much bandwidth I’ve used in the last 3 days, both up & down it came to 4.38971772 gigabytes exactly. And that’s just in the last 3 days, I have a supposed … Continue reading

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PHP & Me

I was just looking through some old old old PHP code, I knew I never was the greatest coder, but I was pretty darn bad a couple of years ago. My idea of security was just a random string of … Continue reading

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Has Google taken over?

Something I’ve just noticed is that when I open FF I automatically open a load of tabs, all seem to be google (scarry): Google Mail Google Reader Google Analytics Google Adsense Is this part of a weird plan from google … Continue reading

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Tab’s have their annoyances

They’re still great, but can be annoying. By the end of the day I always end up with far too many of them open, a minute ago I did have about 20 open in one window, and FF was using … Continue reading

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Floppy Discs: Designed to be annoying?

I was watching my computer boot up earlier, and noticed the speed ratings were totally out. It was saying my processor was 2 cores running at 462Mhz, rather than 1.86Ghz each. Now, this seems a bit too much out for … Continue reading

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I’ve found my new favourite Software

FreeMind It is an excellent piece of software for brainstorming, previously I tried to use Inspiration, but it’s just soo big and clunky, FreeMind is the total opposite, it’s easy to use, you don’t need top faff around to get … Continue reading

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Good old pen and Paper

This year I have done 3 (relatively) large PHP projects, in my terms anyway, this has been the first time I have done anything other than a quick email form, and part way through each script I have had one … Continue reading

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