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Ubuntu 11.10 beta

Why don’t I ever learn ? I couldn’t resist yesterday and typed in “update manager -d” in the terminal. The download and install just happened and the laptop restarted to finalise the update just fine. I really do like the… Continue Reading →

Goodbye one.com

So after many emails and chat sessions with one.com about their slow servers and down times. I decided it was time to pack my bags and go else where. I chatted to the fellas at yakhost.co.uk, very friendly and helpful…. Continue Reading →

What is going on over at one.com

I have used one.com since May 2005, they were called b-one.com back then. They have been brilliant, telling me via email when there was an update and I could expect some down time on my site. They Live Chat has… Continue Reading →

WordPress 3.1.4

Is it just me that think that it is faster than the old version or has my hosting company fettled something behind the scenes? Since yesterday when I updated my blogs have behaved, no more lack of memory and the… Continue Reading →

Google products

If you asked Random Joe about what product Google have, they would prolly say search, maps and the little more techy would say Gmail. But Google has if not hundreds of program. If you are not a nerd like me… Continue Reading →

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

This is a funny one, I’m just writing this from roughly memory. You run “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade” Ubuntu tells you that it needs to download say 25Mb and after that operation it will be using around… Continue Reading →

Photographing LEGO

I had this idea a few days ago and took some photos of one of my favourite pastime, LEGO. I am an avid reader of Gizmodo but totally missed out on this shooting challenge : LEGO. (click here to see… Continue Reading →

Ubuntu – the Narwhal edition.

I could not wait and installed the first Beta of ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. A month or so ago I tried out a Alpha version on my old laptop and nothing really happened. Well I saw the fancy new menu… Continue Reading →

10 plugins for wordpress

Two years ago I moved from blogger to self hosted wordpress for my blog. For a various reasons, I was curious what this wordpress was, more control over my post (e.g. backup) and that I could easier modify the templates… Continue Reading →

Social media

I’m on one or two of these, ok a few more of them. And if you work them well you can get good traffic to your website or blog. I do not run websites and blogs that gets lots of… Continue Reading →

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