Archive for the ‘musings’ Category

What has the Internet done for us?

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Every so often, it can be good to take a step back and look around. One thing …

Farewell Steve Jobs

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

How sad.

You will remain an inspiration for us all.

Apple ‘visionary’ Steve Jobs dies

Online Tools to Convert those Long Google Search Engine Results Links Back to Normal Links

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Sometimes Google uses re-direct links within the search engine result pages (SERPs) which, as far as I …

Parallel’s PLESK/Virtuozzo - the missing manual

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

I’ve just worked out why Parallel’s Plesk/Virtuozzo documentation is so awful.

I’ve been using Plesk, on and off, …

Feb 2011 - It feels like the crumbs of the crunch have settled and are, now, turning to concrete

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Is it just me, or is there alot of big, concrete change going on right now?

It feels …

Generating more click-revenue from Online TV ads

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

4oD on channel4.com is great. But I reckon I’d be more inclined to click on the streamed …

If zero is the symbol for ‘nothing’, then what’s the symbol for ’something’?

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Earlier today, I finished listening to In Our Time - Imaginary numbers and have been …

Is it possible to talk about a church bell without mentioning its weight?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

I don’t think so.

The Naïve Democracy and Social Justice of Bayesian Spam Filtering

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Project Honey Pot is a web community that gathers evidence and shares information to fight …

Posh Cat Cartoon - Whatever it was that you broke off and gave to me, its not edible

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

I have never known any more fussy eaters than cats. They are so picky. Also they have …