I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems that every innovation or change in working practice in the internet industry seems to result in tasks taking more work and costing more money. CSS is a big gripe Supposedly, with the introduction of standards and the death of Netscape as a popular browser, the …
Martin Jol certainly seems to be doing the business at Spurs. I don’t know what it is, but he seems very well suited to the club and really keen to make some progress. It’s obviously working as well with one of their best unbeaten stretches for some time. Spurs news on the BBC Spurs official …
I was lucky enough to get a copy of “Rome: Total War” (“RTW”) for Christmas and, as an addict of “Medieval: Total War” (“MTW”) I was too excited even to install it for a couple of hours. (Actually, I rushed to conquer Europe in the medieval game; I knew there’d be little chance of playing …
With the prospect of legalised casino’s in the UK, the parallels between the ‘real’ world and Sim City seem ever closer. Personally, I don’t know what the moral arguments before and against are, but if the government had ever played Sim City but the legalisation of gambling in that game always resulted in higher crime …
There’s a handy way to stop PDF’s loading slowly using the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin for Firefox. You can read the full details here: Speed up PDF opening in Firefox.
Actually, I get a lot of it. Spam comes flooding through old e-mail in a constant stream. The thing I don’t get is: what is the spammer getting out of it? I mean, most of the e-mails at the moment are for one of: Rolex’s: as if they’re genuine. Yeah, right. Various pharmaceuticals: I don’t …
I seem to be suffering from a huge number of people with my address in their book sending me viruses pretending to be ‘important message’ attachments. What a pain… It’s okay when I’m in the office as the spam filter gets all of them, but if I’m out and about and want to connect on …
Some of us from www.freelancers.net have just come back from a great couple of nights in Brussels. I’ve never been to Belgium before but it was a great laugh. We stayed in the ‘Hotel Catalonia’, which was a pretty good place, somewhere in the Art Nouveau quarter. It was pretty short on art nouveau, however… …
Okay, I’ve been playing far too much Medieval Total War lately. It’s only my first campaign and I started playing as the Italians mainly because: It didn’t seem too hard, or too easy Being English seemed to easy, and too obvious I had delusions of being able to start my own in-game renaissance So, having …
My business partner, Darren, was in the midst of some hard-core Unix techiness in the office yesterday (trying to get our two adsl connections to work with the network) and I had to take this photo