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Having had my new PC up and running for a month now I recently treated myself to an 8GB RAM upgrade to bring me the the insane amount of 12 GB total. I did this with a plan in mind. The plan was to use some of the RAM as a RAM disk for use [...]

Four months since I last made an update! Maybe twitter really is killing the blog? I think that in the not to distant future this blog might be subjected to the mighty powers of “rm -r -f /home/blog*” In the meantime I’ll leave this here:

I’m getting very tardy here lately. 12 days since I last posted something and even then that was mainly a copy and paste job. I could write about the weather but we have been relatively lucky down here. I’m beginning to think the town is radioactive because it was snowing everywhere within a two mile [...]

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines synergy as “a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants or elements (as resources or efforts)” Anyone with any experience in a workplace will know it as a management buzzword that smacks of horseshit. When asked to define what synergy is you would invariably get the reply “1 [...]

Can anyone solve the riddle below? No prizes unfortunately. Originally came via an email but I Photoshopped™®  it slightly.

As illnesses go the flu is a nasty bugger. I haven’t had it myself in years as I used to get regular vaccinations at work. So for the first time in years and for exactly a week now I have been freezing cold one minute, roasting the next. I’ve been shaking, coughing and wheezing. Unable [...]

I feel so ashamed. I’ve just been extremely bad. Someone in Brazil changed their theme on blogspot and very nice it is too I have to say. His design is excellent but for one thing. He is hotlinking to an image on my server. I’m getting hundred of hits for it so I figured I [...]

Ever heard a song on the radio, television or wherever and wondered what it was and by whom? Yesterday I was poking about the Apple app store just to see if there was anything new of interest there. I came across Shazam and figured I would give it a whirl. It claims to recognise any [...]