I finally got annoyed enough by people abusing my referer list that I have spent an hour this morning writing a filter process. I haven’t formulated a policy as yet but if a referer is dodgy (i.e. porn) or seems to be using my list for advertising purposes or to try and build their google …
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Normal Service Resumes
After a couple of good days, we are back to normal:
The big switch
There is a lot of documentation out there about how and why to switch from being a Windows user to the Mac platform (OS X). I have done a lot of reading recently and these are the links which I think are most useful. Bear in mind that my point of view is going to …
Indian Summer
Although I have my new toy more important things were happening this weekend so I haven’t had much chance to play… yet. With guests for the weekend the weather couldn’t have been better. It’s the summer we just haven’t had but we did make the most of it with a barbeque last night and lots …
New Toy (Finally)
I mentioned last week that I hadn’t tested the new search feature on here with a Mac. Well I have now as my new toy finally arrived yesterday. Yes it’s a maxed out 17″ PowerBook monster. I got very annoyed with my Windows laptop recently as it was taking forver to do anything and I …
Bizarre experience
I decided to catch a black cab into the office this morning. Lazy I know but there you go. It costs about GBP4.50 from my hotel to the coffee shop where I get my breakfast and not having any change I handed over a 20 pound note to the cabbie. His response was “Ah, I …
Back to normal
It was my last working at home day yesterday. I am down for a couple of nights in London and then back to the hard grind commuting proper. In fairly typical fashion the summer has seen appalling weather but as soon as I am back at work the sun comes out so, being the cause …
And another
Two upgrades in three hours. The laptop is up as well now and it’s revealed the only visible difference. There seem to be some improvements with wireless networking. The interface has changed and for some reason my network speed has changed from showing 80-90% strength to 100%. Not sure if Windows is telling fibs but …
SP2 installed, no problems shocker
I decided to take the plunge and install Service Pack 2 on one of my machines today. Apart from a fairly large download (266mb) and a very long install time (you’ll need an hour or so) it was entirely problem free. I have yet to test all of my sfotware but the important stuff (networking, …
Broken tradition finally
The barbeque happened yesterday and was as good as ever but because it was so cold (the sheepskin coats were out much earlier than usual) no-one got thrown in the pool. I can’t tell you how glad that made me as I think there would probably have been a few cases of hypothermia afterwards.