Blog Post Archive

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Posted
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A Change Is As Good As A Rest 15/12/2010 Tech, Linux, Debian, Star Wars, Linux Mint
A Collection Of Random Errata 28/11/2009 Random, Linux, Tech
A Fresh Start 29/01/2010 Hosting, Tech, Drupal
A Neat Little Niche Image Uploading Solution 24/04/2012 Tech, Linux
A New Addition To The Site 19/04/2012 Tech, Random, PHP
A New Theme & A Reminder 15/10/2009 Random
A Personal Update 10/11/2011 Random
A Spring Revamp 11/04/2012 Tech, Drupal, Random
A Symbolic SOPA Protest Takedown 03/01/2012 Politics, Law, Tech
Abusegate 09/09/2009 Politics
After Some Reflection 25/02/2010 Fedora, Tech, Identi.ca, IRC, Random
All Sides Of The Political Divide Should Support FOSS 20/01/2011 Tech, FOSS, Linux, Politics, Law
An Elegant Little Picture Gallery Application 26/09/2011 PHP, Tech
An Identi.ca Group For The Screencast 25/10/2010 Digital Prism Screencast, Identi.ca, Tech, Media
An Odd Bandwidth Issue & Solution 02/04/2012 Tech, Linux, Crunchbang Linux
An Open Letter To Amazon 02/08/2011 eCommerce, Tech
An Open Letter To Hardware Vendors 14/03/2011 Tech, eCommerce
An Open Letter To United Biscuits 03/07/2010 Random
And The Royal Mail Staff Want Public Sympathy? 17/09/2009 Royal Mail
Antiturfer 06/01/2010 Tech, Law, Politics, Prior Art
Archive This 23/03/2012 Tech, Twitter
Are Albums Suitable For Digital Only Artists? 12/05/2012 Tech, eCommerce, Music
Are Any Tesco Offers Genuine Money Savers? 25/04/2012 Tesco
Back In Business 30/10/2009 Tech, Drupal, Hosting
BBC iPlayer Advert Contempt - Strictly Come Dancing 13/12/2009 BBC, TV License, Tech, Media
Better Than Best 29/11/2009 Media, Football
Beware Counterfeit Goods 28/12/2010 eCommerce, Tech, Law, Politics, Media
Blogging With PyRoom 16/10/2010 Tech, Drupal
Bringing The Game Into Disrepute 31/10/2010 Football, Media, BBC, TV License
Bye Bye Ars Technica 18/05/2012 Tech, Trolling, Peter Bright
Camerist 17/08/2011 Law, Politics, Tech
Catching Up 24/11/2010 Tech, TechBytes, Digital Prism Screencast
Cheating Squared 13/06/2010 Football
Clone Wars Now Written By Imbeciles 18/09/2011 Star Wars, Writing
Compiz & The Notification Panel On XFCE 20/11/2009 Tech, Linux, XFCE, Compiz, Ubuntu
Conservatives Should Be Against Patents 23/10/2011 Politics, Tech
Consistency 04/05/2011 Tech, Linux, Ubuntu, Microsoft
Copyright In The Media 21/01/2012 Copyright, Law
Copyright Infringement Is Not Content Theft 20/04/2012 Tech, Politics, Digital Prism Screencast
Copyright Infringement Is Not Theft 24/10/2010 eCommerce, Media, Law, Politics
Cultural Imperialism 29/09/2009 Politics, Media, eCommerce
Customer Profiling 16/02/2010 Tech, Linux, Microsoft, eCommerce
Customers Blamed For Card Fraud 03/10/2009 Tech, Banking, Chip & Pin, Law, Politics
De-selection Workaround In Firebug 16/02/2011 Tech, Firefox
Death X.0 12/11/2010 Random, Tech
Demanding Open Standards Support Is Registering A Preference 11/11/2010 Tech, eCommerce, Linux, Microsoft, Open Standards, Media
Dentiquette 07/02/2010 Identi.ca, Tech
Digital Sale Of Goods Protection 17/03/2011 Tech, eCommerce, Politics, Law
Diplomatic Source Code 08/12/2010 Politics, Wikileaks, Tech
Discworld 09/03/2011 Fiction, Discworld, Random
Divide & Rule 05/01/2012 Politics
Do You Trust Microsoft To Auto Fix Anything? 19/04/2010 Tech, Microsoft
Downtime News 06/02/2011 Hosting, Tech, Random
Drupal Install Humps 11/02/2010 Tech, Drupal
Dying For An iPhone 25/04/2011 Apple, Tech, Android
Easy & Effective Spammer Reporting On Identi.ca 30/09/2010 Identi.ca, Tech
Easy Spell Checking On Drupal With Firefox 27/12/2009 Tech, Drupal, Firefox
Elizabeth Truss 1 Tory Puritans 0 17/11/2009 Politics
Emergency Repair Kit For Linux 14/10/2009 Tech, Linux
End Credits Are A Relic Of The Linear Era 05/05/2012 Media, Movies, TV, Tech
Epiphany For Bob Ainsworth MP 16/12/2010 Politics
Equality Laws & The Religious Right 13/02/2010 Religion, Politics, Law
eValue 25/04/2010 eCommerce, Tech, Media
Evening The Score In The FA Cup 04/05/2012 Football
Every Little Helps 09/03/2012 Tesco
Expectations 20/06/2010 Football
Exploring Markdown 28/04/2012 Tech, Web Design
Fear 20/12/2010 Politics, Wikileaks, Media
Fear Of Success 15/02/2012 Random
File Sharing For Newbies 21/12/2011 Tech, Politics, Law
FireStatus - Great But WTF? 14/09/2009 Tech, Firefox
FootieFox - A Must Have Firefox Addon For Football Fans 12/09/2009 Football, Firefox, Tech
Free Ad Space 09/09/2009 Tech, eCommerce
Fun Android Predictions 06/01/2010 Humour, Android, Tech
Gordon Brown's "Bigot" Gaff 28/04/2010 Politics
Help Required With KDE Basket 10/09/2009 Tech, Linux, KDE
Hillary Clinton Is Well Acquainted With Hypocrisy 15/02/2011 Politics, Wikileaks
Hollywood Linux 01/10/2009 Tech, Linux, Media
How Did Asajj Ventress Die? 04/11/2010 Star Wars, Media
How eBook Readers Can Take Off 05/08/2010 Tech, eCommerce, Media, Linux, Prior Art
How The Media Can Stun The Elected Criminals 26/04/2010 Media, Politics
How Thoughtful Of The BBC 16/09/2010 BBC, Media, TV License, Politics, Law
How To Create & Use Profiles In Google Chrome On Linux 09/09/2011 Tech, Linux
How To Enqueue Audacious With gPodder 13/10/2009 Tech, Linux
Howling At The MoonMoon 21/02/2012 Tech, FOSS, Linux, PHP
HTC Smart On 02 Pt 1 15/06/2010 Tech, O2
HTC Smart On 02 Pt 2 15/06/2010 Tech, O2
HTC Smart On 02 Pt 3 19/06/2010 Tech, O2
I Can't Recommend Birchhosting Enough 18/02/2011 Tech, Hosting
I No Longer Autojoin #Techrights 05/01/2011 Tech, IRC, TechBytes
I Quit Smoking Two Years Ago Today 01/11/2009 Random
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good 19/07/2011 Tech, Linux, Politics
I Think I May Have Reported A Bug 17/10/2010 Tech, Linux, Debian, Firefox, IRC
I Use My Own Bags 26/03/2010 Tesco, Tech, Microsoft
I Vow To Insult The Internet & Everyone On It 23/12/2010 Humour, Douglas Adams, Tech
I Will Make It Legal 30/01/2012 Politics, Law, Tech
I Wonder... 15/01/2010 Law, BBC, TV License, Politics, Media, eCommerce
I'm A Mac - South Park Style 29/09/2009 Random, Humour
I'm Getting Sick Of The GNU People On Identi.ca 16/01/2010 GNU, FOSS, Tech, Linux, Identi.ca
I'm Having Unexplained Coordination Issues 09/12/2010 Random, Identi.ca, IRC
I'm Seriously Considering NaNoWriMo This November 05/03/2011 Random, Fiction, Writing
I'm Seriously Impressed With OpenSuSE 11.4 16/03/2011 Tech, Linux, OpenSuSE, Microsoft, KDE, Gnome
I've Got Gas 24/11/2009 Random
Ice Age 3 - Created Partly On An XFCE Desktop 30/09/2009 Linux, Tech, XFCE, Media
Ice Ice Baby & The Why Of Social Networks 16/03/2012 Twitter, Identi.ca
Iceweasel Has To Restart 17/10/2010 Firefox, Tech, Linux, Debian
If You Want Me To Share Your Content 27/04/2012 Tech
In The Public Interest 09/05/2010 Politics
Incentives In Movieland 14/09/2011 Law, Copyright, MPAA
Initial Election Thoughts 07/05/2010 Politics
Initial Impressions Of Ubuntu 12.04 09/05/2012 Tech, Linux, Ubuntu
Installing Applications 26/09/2009 Tech, Linux, Linux Mint, Ubuntu
Is FLOSS The New Age Of Digital Enlightenment? 04/12/2009 Tech, Linux, Microsoft, Apple, FOSS
Is The Olympics A Bankrupt Concept? 08/09/2011 Sports, Football, Olympics
Is This The Beginning Of The End For Identica? 30/10/2011 Identi.ca, Tech
IT Patriotism 16/09/2010 Tech, Linux, Microsoft, Politics
It Works! 29/09/2009 Tech
JC Spammer 16/02/2011 eCommerce, Tech, Google
Journalists Facing Extinction 20/02/2011 Tech, Journalism, Politics
Jump Reborn 23/02/2011 Fiction, Random, Tech, Drupal
Karmic Punishment 25/02/2011 Tech, Law, Politics
Katie & Silvia On Crunchbang 18/04/2012 Tech, Linux, Crunchbang Linux, SLiM, Conky, Tint2, Katie Holmes, Silvia Saint
Killing The Gwibber Monkey 11/10/2011 Identi.ca, Tech, Linux
Launch Parties 01/11/2009 Tech, Linux, FOSS, Microsoft, Media
Laws Written By Foreign Influence? 06/01/2010 Politics, Law
Legacy Bookstores Still Struggle To Adapt 04/10/2011 eCommerce, Tech
Let The ePub Love Begin 18/04/2010 Tech, Open Standards, Linux, FOSS, Media
Let There Be Light 11/11/2009 Random
Linux Friendly Companies - UK 19/12/2009 Tech, Linux, FOSS, Microsoft, eCommerce, Politics, Law
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" XCFE CE Review 18/09/2009 Tech, Linux, Linux Mint, XFCE
LMNR (Linux Mint Netbook Remix) 28/09/2010 Tech, Linux, Linux Mint
Lock's Mistake 26/12/2009 Media, Random
Logical Extension To The Notification Bar In Android 14/03/2012 Tech, Linux, Android
Lost In Translation 13/11/2009 Media, Harry Potter, Star Wars
Major Changes 16/10/2010 Random
Meego For Netbooks 15/02/2011 Tech, Linux, Microsoft, Nokia
Microsoft Is Not A Software Company 23/02/2011 Tech, Microsoft
Mr & Mrs 16/01/2010 Humour, Random
Murdoch Meddles Again 01/05/2010 Politics, Law, Media
My Appearance On TINAP 07/08/2011 Identi.ca, TINAP
My Initial Thoughts On Drupal 7 07/01/2011 Tech, Drupal
My Thumbdrive 19/08/2010 Tech, Linux, FOSS, PortableApps
Newsbeuter - Now With Podcatching Powers 12/11/2009 Tech, Linux
Next Witness M'Lud 25/09/2009 Tech, Law, Politics
Next, Next, Next, Next, Next, Next etc 25/01/2011 Tech, Microsoft, Linux
No Alignment Left Behind 24/10/2009 Tech, Random
No Public Inquiry Into Allegations Of UK Troops Abusing Iraqi Detainees 15/11/2009 Politics, Law
Nothing Is Ever Created In Isolation 22/10/2010 Tech, Media
Now Even Crunchier 19/02/2011 Tech, Linux, Crunchbang Linux, Debian
O' Come All Ye Racists 20/04/2011 Identi.ca, Tech, Racism
O2 - Phase One 14/08/2010 O2
On Intellectual Property 04/06/2011 Tech, Politics
On Luis Suarez 12/02/2012 Football
On Reflection 18/12/2011 Random
Online Sphere Of Influence 13/11/2010 Tech, Identi.ca, IRC, FOSS
Open Data Alliance Centre 28/10/2010 Tech, Microsoft, Linux, FOSS, Open Standards, Politics, Law
Open Respect 26/04/2012 Tech, FOSS, Linux, Drupal
Perspective In Fiction - Harry Potter 28/11/2009 Media, Fiction, Harry Potter
Philip Morris Corporate Harassment 01/09/2011 Politics, Law, Lobbyists, Corruption
Pino - Festive Style 17/12/2010 Tech, Linux
Poor Little Recording Industry Multi-Millionaires 04/01/2010 Law, Politics, Media, eCommerce
PortableApps Repo & Package Management 16/10/2010 Tech, Linux, PortableApps, Prior Art
Producing Content For Free 27/02/2011 Tech, eCommerce, Politics, Law, Journalism
Properly Setting A Default Web Browser 18/10/2011 Linux, Ubuntu, Tech, Gnome, XFCE
Protecting The National Interest 13/01/2011 Politics, Law, Wikileaks
Publicly Releasing The Ref's Commentary 31/10/2010 Football
RBS ATM's Use Windows 12/10/2009 Tech, Microsoft, RBS, Banking
Rediscovering ABBA 21/12/2011 Random, Music
Reflections On My First AGM 08/10/2010 Random
Remember Kids, Backups Are Important 16/03/2010 Tech, Drupal
Remote Government 08/08/2011 Politics, Law, Tech
Renting A Domain Name 09/11/2009 Tech, eCommerce
Reorganising The Screencast 01/11/2010 Digital Prism Screencast, Tech
Repairing Unified Folders In Thunderbird 16/04/2012 Tech, Thunderbird
Repay Value 26/08/2011 Tech, eCommerce, Law, Politics
Run Free My Little Monkey 16/12/2010 Digital Prism Screencast, Tech, Linux
Running Nautilus Outside Of Gnome 06/05/2010 Tech, Linux
Same Old Microsoft 21/10/2009 Tech, Microsoft, BBC, TV License
Scottish Gas Don't Want Customers 09/05/2011 Random
Search Engines Modelled On Politicians 30/04/2010 Politics, Random, Tech
Self Service At Tesco With Windows Kiosks 07/10/2009 Tech, Microsoft, Tesco
Shock & Awe 23/08/2010 Politics
Slipping In Under The Radar 10/04/2011 Religion
Softalicious Install Issues 26/04/2012 Tech
Some RSS Feed Updates 02/08/2011 Random
Some Thoughts On The Pope's Visit To The UK 18/09/2010 Politics, Religion
Some URL Changes Are Required 26/12/2009 Random, Drupal
Sony eRecovery 12/03/2011 Tech, Sony
Speaking For Whom 26/11/2011 FOSS, Linux
Sponsored Substitutes 12/04/2010 Football
Stonemirror 18/06/2010 Politics, BP
Style Changes, Mastery Is Permanent 12/03/2012 Music, Random, John Lennon, Guitar
System Restore Partition On Linux 21/11/2009 Tech, Linux, Prior Art, Microsoft
Tesco's PC Buyers Guide 31/10/2009 Tesco, Tech, Microsoft, eCommerce, Linux, FOSS
Tesco's Price Comparison Deception 05/03/2012 Tesco
Tesco's Self Service Tills Go From Bad To Terrible 12/11/2011 Tesco, Microsoft, Tech
The Ad Exception Myth 15/09/2009 eCommerce, Tech, Firefox
The American Dream 20/04/2011 Politics
The BBC Hard At Work 25/02/2011 BBC, TV License, Tech
The Day After The SOPA Blackout 19/01/2012 SOPA, Law, Politics, Tech
The Day Identica Groups Became Annoying 26/09/2011 Identi.ca, Tech
The Digital Prism Screencast 23/10/2010 Digital Prism Screencast, Tech, Drupal, Linux
The Digital Prism Screencast Relaunched 23/01/2011 Digital Prism Screencast, Tech, Drupal, Linux
The Downtime Explanation 09/01/2010 Hosting, Tech
The England World Cup Bid Disaster 2010 03/12/2010 Football, Politics
The FA Outsource Their PR To Hypnotoad 01/05/2012 Football
The Hobbyists OS 27/04/2010 Tech, Microsoft, Linux
The Ideal FOSS RTS Game? 17/09/2010 Tech, FOSS, Prior Art
The Importance Of Being Nice 27/09/2009 Tech, FOSS, Ubuntu, Linux, Linux Mint
The Laser Sharp Intellect Of John Prescott 27/01/2011 Politics
The Linux Attribution Show 20/11/2010 Tech, Linux
The Matrix Has You 16/10/2009 Tech, Linux
The Microsoft Store 24/02/2011 Tech, Microsoft, Apple, FOSS, Linux
The Money Shot 04/11/2009 Media, Star Wars
The Multi-Stream Widget Based Thingy 05/11/2009 Tech, Prior Art, FOSS, Linux
The Mystery Of The Unpaid Postage 01/06/2010 Random, Royal Mail
The Myth Of Cheap Linux Users 29/08/2011 Tech, Linux, eCommerce
The Myth Of The "Lost Sale" 08/10/2010 Tech, eCommerce, Law, Politics
The New Addition To The Digital Family 19/12/2009 Tech, eCommerce, Microsoft, Linux
The Orcs Are Coming 16/04/2010 Random, Humour, LOTR
The Road To Stagnation Is Paved With Patents 03/01/2011 Tech, Media, Law, Politics, Open Standards
The Secret Lives Of Cables 09/09/2009 Random, Humour
The Story Of A Distro Release 20/08/2011 Linux, Tech
The Techrights IRC Channel On Freenode 08/08/2010 Tech, IRC
The TINAP Enigma 07/08/2011 Identi.ca, TINAP
The Transparency Of Ally McCoist 29/04/2012 Football, Rangers
The Ubuntu App Store 01/10/2009 Tech, Linux, Ubuntu, eCommerce, Open Standards, FOSS
The Ubuntu App Store's Elephant In The Room 08/02/2010 Tech, Linux, Ubuntu, eCommerce
The Ultimate Ponzi Scheme 15/04/2011 Religion
The Value Of Expertise 20/02/2011 Tech, Journalism, Politics, Microsoft, Nokia
The Will Of God 31/07/2011 Politics, Law, Religion
The Will Of The Force 29/08/2010 Star Wars, Random
There Is No Statute Of Limitations On Crimes Against Humanity 19/02/2012 Politics
They Came To Defend 07/11/2009 Football
To Boldly Go Where Others Have Been Before 30/07/2011 Star Trek
Tortoise For Sale 19/11/2010 Tech, eCommerce
Toxic Emploment History 24/09/2011 NewsCorp, Microsoft, BBC, Yahoo, Nokia
Traitor? 24/12/2010 Politics, Wikileaks
Trust 05/02/2010 Religion, Random
Trust Me, I'm A Politician 27/09/2009 Politics
Twidge, Shorten URL & Mustard 05/08/2010 Tech, Identi.ca, Firefox
Twitter's Policy Changes Don't Add Up 14/03/2011 Tech, Twitter, Identi.ca
Two Funky Drupal Modules 07/03/2012 Drupal, Tech
Ubuntu 12.04 Revisited 14/05/2012 Tech, Linux, Ubuntu
Ukraine V England Only On The Internet 12/10/2009 Football, Tech, eCommerce, Media
Unity(d) We Stand? 21/03/2011 Ubuntu, Tech, Linux, Linux Mint
Unix Porn 01/10/2009 Tech, Linux, FOSS
UNR - Ubuntu Netbook Revisited 09/09/2010 Tech, Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Unseen Studio Has Launched 12/09/2011 Tech, Linux, FOSS
Using Karma As A Deterrent 23/10/2010 Tech, Linux, Ubuntu, Apple, Law, Politics
Vuvuzela 15/06/2010 Football, Media
Weatherseal Ignore TPS Memberships 06/10/2010 Tech, Random, Weatherseal
Web Browser Insecurity 20/02/2011 Tech, eCommerce, Linux, Microsoft, Firefox
What Changes For Apple After Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO? 25/08/2011 Tech, Apple
What Exactly Are You Paying For? 18/12/2009 Tech, Microsoft, Linux, FOSS
What Happens In Stoke Stays In Stoke 12/12/2009 Football, Media
What's The Worst That Could Happen? 24/02/2011 Random, Politics
When Is Enough Enough 29/03/2011 Tech
When The Brain Is A Little Behind The Times 05/01/2010 Random, Humour
Who Is Actually "Putting A Relationship At Risk"? 17/12/2011 Wikileaks, Politics
Why Are Beginnings So Hard? 17/12/2011 Random
Why Are You Drawn To Some Sports & Not Others? 06/09/2011 Sports
Why Do Footballers Need Warned? 25/05/2010 Football
Why Do We Hold Ourselves Back? 25/05/2011 FOSS, Linux
Why I Love Crunchbang 21/04/2012 Tech, Linux, Crunchbang Linux
Why I Refuse To Use Chip & Pin 11/09/2009 Tech, Banking, Chip & Pin, eCommerce, Law, Politics
Why Patent Free Codecs Are Important 11/11/2009 Tech, Linux, Open Standards, FOSS
Why Your Project Should Use Mibbit 21/09/2009 Tech, IRC
Will The SNP Have Some Unexpected Campaign Support? 07/10/2009 Politics
XMarks In Firefox Not Syncing After An Update? - Fixed 03/07/2010 Tech, Firefox
Yesterday On BirchHosting 16/10/2010 Tech, Hosting, Drupal, Linux
Your Postcode Is Royal Mail's IP 06/10/2009 Tech, Royal Mail

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