Slightly off topic from my usual posts about computer science and technology but I saw this in my BBC Focus Magazine and just had to post about it! Turns out that having a beer a day is actually good for you. The study carried out at the University of California found that the amount of [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Internet Election Fever
So the election for the UK was finally announced this week, probably the worse unannounced date! All the media outlets have been jumping on the bandwagon with some fantastic but probably useless election tools.
The BBC for example has the election calculator where you can spend all of, well lets be honest a minute or so. [...]
What a week for the iPad..
Its been a heck of a week for the iPad, released just under one week ago and what a week its been. Starting out with the hype of new videos being added to the apple website showing what the new iPad can do. I have to admit that it does look a really good product [...]
Spam filters
After implementing a spam filter on my blogs a few months ago in an attempt to stop the spam comments, it seems to have worked really well in stopping all comments from everyone. The idea of the first plugin was it asked a simple maths question of the user to ensure its a person rather [...]
Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions can be abit of a black art, I remember doing them at university many moons ago and remember being really confused by them. I eventually got into them alot when constructing scripts for a desktop program called Samurize (probably the best program in the world). Its been awhile since I’ve touched them (talking [...]
Netgear Problems
A couple of weeks back I was struggling to fix a problem with a computer network interface (that I mentioned about). I believe it turns out that I did fix it by adding another network card. Unfortunately it turns out my testing was not working because my DHCP server was not working correctly on my [...]