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Now that things have finally settled down I can finally get around to getting a lot of the things I had planned for my summer holidays done. First up was to try to aggregate all my online presences from Twitter, Flickr Last.FM etc. I was considering using FriendFeed but since I’ve recently been extolling the [...]

With the recent demise of my only Windows PC I have been using my Macbook in its place. All that is well and good except that one of my classes in college is ‘Business Applications’ which should really be renamed ‘Microsoft Office 2007  and nothing else’ Naturally like any other class I have a few [...]

Well, I was 99.9% legal beforehand. (at a rough guess.) So being a student has it’s advantages! Microsoft’s Dreamspark campaign is a  scheme for students to download Microsoft software completely free of charge provided you meet the criteria. And I have to say fair play to Microsoft, they really mean it. I now have Visual [...]

As I will be off to college on Monday I won’t have anywhere near a fraction of the time that I used to for messing about with all my various servers here. I figured it would make a lot more sense to consolidate my various sites onto the one machine if at all possible. So [...]

My 200th Post! I’ve had to split this post into two, hopefully the main post will be tomorrow but to give you a hint have a look at the following screen shots, Windows Update doesn’t seem to recognise Microsoft’s old age pensioner: Click for embiggenment.  

What on earth were Microsoft thinking? Take the screenshot below. It is from an installation of Windows Server 2008. More specifically it is the window that pops up when you click on the icon that tells you that updates are available. What is wrong with this picture? Well for a start it lists the updates [...]

It’s enough to drive you to drink. A friend bought a new laptop for his son recently. Nothing special about the laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220 but quite nice nonetheless as a surfing, mail and watching DVD’s machine. They bought in mid April and it went kaput 5 days ago so he asked me to [...]

Another video, my creativity is lacking somewhat at the moment along with my finances. But anyway. would you buy an operating system off this man? Just in case you don’t know who he is, Steve Ballmer is the rather er.. excitable CEO of Microsoft.