Category: Internet

Steve Wozniak isn't a fan of the cloud

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=25351 I haven’t exactly made my disdain for "cloud" services a secret - the whole "who owns your data" is pretty fucking important..... but with so many of the big players selling "cloud" as a silver bullet, there is bound to be some take-up. (Granted, mainly by people that dont understand the basics of data…

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Freelancer – not so rosy now....

a couple of things have happened since my last post 1) the freelancer who completed my web page has contacted me saying that my "account issues" are holding up his withdrawal.... when i have no account issues... so while i feel bad for the guy, that he's not getting paid - im powerless to do…

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First experiences with freelancer.com

Quite a while ago - i decided that my company website need sprucing up - and that powershell and vbscript just aren't going to cut it anymore as some of the automation pieces we write for clients get more and more complex. So... what to do? Well, after finding a couple of web-design places that…

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Blogging and new clients

So - yesterday i visited my first client that has ever come us (adexis) via this blog - only a small engagement, but knocked off a major issue they had apparently been having for 3 years.... cool. Oh - and apparently i fucking swear a lot.... meh.... thats me.

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Those random dots....

Every now and again ill have a look at the stats for this blog - and also the clustermap...... im always amazed that i have readers from the artic (apparently).... im amazed that penguin flippers would be able to type accurately or use a mouse.... or polar bear paws.... just goes to show how fucking…

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Wordpress and IE9

So after a month or so of using IE9, and not being able to update this blog without RDP'ing into a 2008 R2 server with IE8 - wordpress seem to have updated for IE9 - cool.... but... whenever i open the dashboard i get a large warning stating that my version of IE is out…

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IE9 – first impressions

I knew IE9 was coming, but id didnt really care about when.... nor did i really care what features are included... im mean, its a browser... as long a i can write blog posts, check the news (world and gaming) and do my work - thats the guts of what matters for me. Anyhoo…

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Finally.... decent.... internet....

After 4 months of trying to get an ISP to take my DSL line issues seriously, my new ISP finally got the line provider to check out the line, and im not getting a decent 13mb down/1.5mb up..... now while this isnt great, i've been using 2.5mb down/0.4mb up for the last 4 months…

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