I hate intrusive advertising as I surf web pages, particularly the Flash ones. I’ve found three easy ways to remove nearly all of these annoyances.
Ad Blocking
January 25th, 2009O2 Broadband Connection
October 29th, 2008Some stats and a few theories.
Since I had my O2 broadband activated I’ve been carefully monitoring the bandwidth and S/N margins. S/N margins are definitely better during the day and then go down to around 6.5dB at night. Read the rest of this entry »
Broadband Comparison
October 17th, 2008Two running. 40 days to decide the winner. Here are speed tests:
O2 Broadband. 16 Meg service.
Virgin Media. 10 Meg service.
Speed tests are a bit variable on O2 but time will tell. Much better in the upload direction but pings take longer.
How to search by latitude and longitude on Google Maps
August 19th, 2008Google Maps allows you to search by specifying co-ordinates in latitude and longitude, however I was unable to find details in their online help.
After some experimenting I’ve come up with the following formats which are accepted.
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Hey Bean!
August 15th, 2008It’s getting a bit repetitive sending you all those links so I’ll leave ‘em here for you 
- PC Decrapifier http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/home
- CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/
- Avast! antivirus – Free home edition
And most important of all, the one that caused us a few hours of stress today – download the
If I find any more I’ll add them to the list. Enjoy 
Virgin On the Ridiculous
July 30th, 2008
And later…
OK I think we’re getting there finally…
Morse on the ‘Net
April 18th, 2008
I was fascinated to see the folks over at Notts Indymedia had used morse code in their logo.
Nice to know it ain’t dead yet. If you’d like it in MP3 or Ogg Vorbis at 20wpm I’d be happy to oblige 
See you on the bands.
Let’s Hit The Ground Running…
April 13th, 2008OK.
After yesterday’s installation and testing of the WordPress engine I can now start adding content to the site. I’ve chosen a suitable theme, Silverlight, however the sidebar doesn’t quite work as expected (I can figure that out as I go).
There is lots of clever Web2.0 stuff out there to filter in and out content from elsewhere. Mashup is the key word. Yahoo! Pipes is one such gadget that I have implemented to take RSS feeds from sites I post on such as Flickr, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us.
Making sense yet? No? Go Google web2.0 then.
I’ll even add some original content when I’m feeling creative enough.
Picture Test
April 12th, 2008Beware when viewing images on the internet!
Makeover
April 12th, 2008After much time spent learning and fiddling with HTML, CSS, php, Perl and MySQL, We’ve decided to use a pre-packed solution for the site.
We’re now using WordPress.
Now we can spend more time tweaking the content instead of the presentation.
The old site stuff will remain (as always!) with some links in the sidebar to the more useful stuff.