On the 10th January 2011, High Speed Two or simply HS2 was given the 'go-ahead'. I am not impressed. I am actually so unimpressed I signed the e-petition to Stop HS2. Why? That is a great questions. Continue »
I came across Caro Emerald this past Sunday night when watching the Strictly Come Dancing Week 4 Results Show with my Mother and Grandmother. I think the song is really fun and energetic. Later that evening I had a look for the video on the YouTube and was blown away. Continue »
There has been an incredible volume of column inches printed in the past week debating the sexualisation of girls and the general dumbing down of women as society continues to objectify women. I think this is quite frankly a travesty which roles back the accomplishments of courageous women who promoted women's rights and equality. Noteably Emily Pankhurst, leader of the British suffragette movement. Continue »
As a developer you may like to run software such as Wordpress or Drupal on your development server and use the htaccess file for mod_rewrite. By setting up Virtual Host on your machine you can have your development machine masquerade as the live machine and test sites and coding more vigorously ahead of deploying to production. Continue »
On Sunday the 20th March I travelled back from Birmingham on a Virgin Pendolino service to London Euston. This was after the conclusion of my friend Richard's Stag Do ahead of his wedding in April. I did push the boat out and purchase a first class ticket for the return journey to London. This was fortunate because I had a disgusting hangover. I found it interesting to compare the journey up to Birmingham on the Saturday in standard class to that of first class on the Sunday. Continue »
Follow one of the solutions below to remove the Ask Jeeves toolbar from your computer. There are solutions for either Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Continue »
To stop Ask Jeeves from appearing when you open Mozilla Firefox you must update your homepage settings. This is simple task which can be completed by following the following these steps. Continue »
To stop Ask Jeeves from appearing when you open Internet Explorer you must update your homepage settings. This is simple task which can be completed by following the following these steps. Continue »
I have installed Radio Tray as a simple solution to playing the No Agenda Stream with the smallest foot print possible on my Ubuntu desktop. If you are not familiar with the No Agenda Stream it is where Adam Curry and John C Dvorak broadcast No Agenda live on Thursday and Sunday at 09:00 PST, 17:00 GMT. When Adam are John are not recording No Agenda live the No Agenda Stream is an Open Source Radio station powered by listeners across the World suggesting songs via the No Agenda Stream DropBox account. Continue »
It's been quite a while since I have last used a floppy disk. I am sure like many people you have a house or office littered with old diskettes. I have however been unable to successfully mount a floppy disk in Ubuntu 10.10. After a bit of investigation I have reminded myself that it was again impossible to mount floppy disks in Ubuntu 10.04. This was because of an update to the udisks package. Continue »