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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Random technology Blog of the Week, 5th Oct 2007: SlipperyBrick.com
Saturday, 6 Oct, 2007 | 2 Comments

A new idea I’m going to try out once per week is to pull out a random technology related Blog and talk about it here. Todays technology Blog is called SlipperyBrick with the slogan “Funny …

Refreshing the Blog - What’s next?
Friday, 5 Oct, 2007 | 2 Comments

Since migrating my Blog from it’s previous hosted home to a self-hosted environment using Wordpress it’s time to start sorting things out. First and foremost I have a large number of categories that seemed like …

Font Fonts Fonts
Friday, 5 Oct, 2007 | No Comment

A useful site for unusual and interesting fonts is Creamundo. They currently have over 9,000 fonts for free download.

Waste Regulations
Friday, 5 Oct, 2007 | No Comment

Performing a technology refresh is an exciting challenge however it does pose a slight problem and that is what to do with the large amount of kit you are left with and the days are …

How difficult can it be to get a software update?
Thursday, 4 Oct, 2007 | 3 Comments

I don’t know about you but when I buy a piece of software, especially expensive software - I expect to get software updates, and in this day and age I would really like to be …

Sonicwall GVC and Vista
Thursday, 4 Oct, 2007 | No Comment

As much as we are steering clear of Vista within the business for now; outside of the business the number of Vista users is on the increase. A big problem we have however is that …

Maintaining the Shadow in Photoshop
Thursday, 4 Oct, 2007 | No Comment

Whilst I’m in the mooe for Photoshop I have been looking around to achieve something I’ve been after for a while, namely being able to remove a background from an image whilst maintaining thinks like shadows. …

Interesting effects in Photoshop
Thursday, 4 Oct, 2007 | One Comment

I’m often on the lookout for unique and/or interesting tips and techniques for ads and flyers that I often have to create at short notice.
 One of these tips is how to create an Andy Warhol …

Do the Skype founders feel disappointed by the measly payout?
Wednesday, 3 Oct, 2007 | No Comment

That’s more or less the question posed by Chris Williams of The Register in his article - and of course the answer surely has to be NOPE!
Apparently their payout at $530m was only a third …

Moving along the virtualisation
Wednesday, 3 Oct, 2007 | No Comment

Summary
The virtualisation project (10 servers down to 4) is now well underway with a number of servers already decommissioned including:

The AD Master/Old Exchange 2000/MailArchiver Server
The Print Server
An old Terminal Services Server

 
What is left?
The web server …