Thoughts On The Book “The End Of Mr. Y”
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I bought the book “The End Of Mr. Y”, by Scarlett Thomas, as a Christmas gift but for a number of reasons I ended up reading it and I am glad I did, in fact …

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Article Archive for July 2007

Another Website Done
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

Well, that’s another Web Design project done and complete and the client is more than satisfied with the result. This time round I did the whole thing using ASP, XHTML and CSS to allow for …

iPass again
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

I see iPass are finally in the press talking about their new remote service however I’m not totally bowled over by their European Technical Director describing us IT Managers as “having their heads in the …

PCL by hand
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

When I’m coding in COBOL one of the most time consuming things I have to do is developing and writing reports - especially reports that require some degree of absolute placements of text and graphics. …

Booking Doctors appointments over the telly … in advance? whatever next?
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

Maybe it’s because I’ve been sick recently or maybe it’s because I’m sometimes a bit of a cynic that I find the story reported by the The Register somewhat ludicrous. The article is entitled “Got …

Wyser and Wyser
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 | One Comment

After the umming and ahhing over the last week or so I’ve made the decision to technology refresh our existing Wyse thin clients based on Wyse V50 thin-client terminals. These are essentially 1 Ghz x86 …

Back to the trenches
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

I’m back at the office. Hopefully I can stave off another bout of tonsilitis long enough to get a blog post in. Cough Cough. Fortunately the doctor has referred me to a ENT specialist to …

Struck down again
Friday, 20 Jul, 2007 | One Comment

I can’t believe it - just two days after recovering from a particularly nasty bout of tonsilitis I get struck down with it again. I was sitting at work when it suddenly washed over me …

Looking for a ‘different’ gift
Wednesday, 18 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

Looking for an unusual gift? Give iDwarf a go.

It took some time searching on the Internet and a bit of a toe in the water to test them out but I found a company that …

Being IT and ILL
Tuesday, 17 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

There is only one snag that Monk and I have found with being the only IT person in an organisation and that is those time when you feel so sick you just can’t get …

Never share your password!
Tuesday, 17 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

As obvious as it sounds it seems people keep need to be told “Never share your password”. I run out of juice sometimes as I discover users sharing passwords for whatever reason. The point is …