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Web Developers Conference 2011

Web Developers Conference 2011

It’s taken me a little while to get around to writing up my notes on Web Dev Conference (WDC 2011) from last week, mainly because I was quite motivated by the talks and got on with a lot of things that had been hanging around for a while and also because on the...

5 Years in the Clear…

It’s taken a few days for me to get my head around this and post it, so I apologise for that! I had my annual Testicular Cancer checkup at the beginning of the week, after 5 years you think they’d get easier (they don’t and neither do me and...
What do you call….

What do you call….

Two web techies, a PR person, a radio presenter, an audio production engineer, a system analyst and programmer all in a bar together? You’re probably thinking very boring (I know how your minds work!), but actually it was Swindon Tweetup! The first regular...

Deliveries and Expectations!

I like my gadgets (as most people know) so recently ordered myself a new flash for my D-SLR, I say recently very loosely as I’m slightly annoyed! I’ve been a customer of the company I ordered it from for several years, they’ve not always been the...

Super Hacker! Traceroute?

Sorry, I simply couldn’t resist the title having watched this epic video on YouTube today! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM] The author of this video clearly thinks that traceroute tells you how many people are looking at a site! Worryingly...

‘Snow Good At All!

I don’t like the stuff – I make no secret about that… OK I do – but only for photo’s, everything else about it I thoroughly dislike! We’ve had almost a week of it now and I have some observations… This country will never, ever, be prepared for this. Even...