Blog Posts

• Migrating this blog from WordPress to a static site powered by Eleventy and CloudFlare Pages Friday 08 November 2024
• Duplicity error - BackendException: No connection to backend Thursday 12 November 2015
• Comma separated list of EU country codes Monday 01 June 2015
• Enabling WordPress Automatic Background Updates after using Version Control (svn) Thursday 18 September 2014
• How to stop Mysql ASCII tables / column separators from being lost when redirecting bash output Monday 08 September 2014
• What are the dots in the top left corner of iOS7 for? Thursday 19 September 2013
• Setting up bridged networking for libvirt on CentOS / RedHat Friday 06 September 2013
• Setting up a PXE boot server on Synology DSM 4.2 beta Sunday 13 January 2013
• Setting up SSH authorized_keys with SELinux enabled Saturday 12 January 2013
• Creating a bootable USB stick from OSX Wednesday 09 January 2013
• Showing total disk use on Linux - a.k.a How to sum the output of df Friday 03 August 2012
• Fixing keyboard problems with OSX and virt-manager Monday 30 July 2012
• Installing Ansible on OSX Lion Tuesday 26 June 2012
• How to bulk add an ssh key to multiple servers Tuesday 24 January 2012
• Raspberry Pi Measurements & Dimensions Sunday 15 January 2012
• Raspberry Pi playing a 1080p video Sunday 15 January 2012
• Raspberry Pi #8 First Photoshoot Friday 13 January 2012
• Raspberry Pi Beta Boards Raise Over £16,000 in ebay auctions Wednesday 11 January 2012
• How to locate a previously submitted P60 or P45 on the HMRC Employers Portal Tuesday 10 January 2012
• Green Easing - Save the planet while saving the economy Friday 23 December 2011
• How to deploy Zimbra ZCS Open Source Edition on Amazon EC2 Tuesday 11 October 2011
• Sharing S3 Buckets and all sub folders Monday 06 December 2010
• Import your own RSA SSH key into Amazon EC2 Wednesday 27 October 2010
• Setting up SnomONE PBX on Centos 5.5 Thursday 14 October 2010
• Learning RouterOS Tuesday 28 September 2010
• Summary of Emergency Budget 2010 measures Tuesday 22 June 2010
• How to tab between all fields in OSX Saturday 19 June 2010
• First impressions of the iPad Thursday 27 May 2010
• Maximum number of domain aliases with Google Apps Premier Thursday 25 February 2010
• How to set up iChat for Facebook Wednesday 10 February 2010
• My UK Election Wish List Thursday 21 January 2010
• Summary of the new Companies Act 2006 Sunday 10 January 2010
• Working with Government APIs Saturday 21 November 2009
• Running Askozia PBX on OSX with Sun's VirtualBox Tuesday 13 October 2009
• Has your WordPress been hacked? Sunday 06 September 2009
• A WordPress YouTube Plugin - The FuTube Player Monday 17 August 2009
• UK Gov launches Clean Energy Cash Back scheme Saturday 15 August 2009
• PHP GovTalk Class Thursday 16 July 2009
• A new way to find furniture Tuesday 23 June 2009
• Shared Calendars on the Mac & iPhone with Google Sync Saturday 20 June 2009
• How to upgrade iphone 3.0 beta to full official release Thursday 18 June 2009
• Testing the Yii Framework Thursday 28 May 2009
• Developing with Subversion, Unfuddle and OSX Wednesday 27 May 2009
• WAMP SMTP Server - Send outgoing emails Wednesday 20 May 2009
• Effective 2009-2010 Tax Rates Saturday 16 May 2009
• MySQL one database versus multiple databases Sunday 10 May 2009
• UK House Prices 1999-2009 in GBP, USD, EUR Wednesday 06 May 2009
• Unemployment versus House Prices 1975-2008 Saturday 25 April 2009
• Learning Fonica PABX and FreePBX Friday 24 April 2009
• Trixbox blue screen after probing video card Monday 20 April 2009
• Replacing benefits with a Basic Income Saturday 18 April 2009
• Robin Hood 2010 being filmed near Farnham Monday 13 April 2009
• Willie's Delectable Chocolate Revolution Friday 10 April 2009
• Coming soon... a new Gangster MMORPG Monday 30 March 2009
• iPhone 3.0 Software Update Tuesday 17 March 2009
• Testing Syntax Highlighting with wp-syntax (Geshi) Wednesday 11 March 2009
• Monetising the debt - BoE to buy UK Government Bonds Sunday 08 March 2009
• Creating a Virtual Host with Webmin Tuesday 24 February 2009
• The Ultimate OS X Text Editor - Coda Tuesday 24 February 2009
• Changing the default Umask on OSX Leopard Thursday 19 February 2009
• PHP Web Application Security Wednesday 18 February 2009
• Sharing a CD/DVD drive over the network with OS X Monday 16 February 2009
• Cloud Hosting Providers Sunday 15 February 2009
• PHP Adsense Report Script Thursday 12 February 2009
• Installing Zend Framework on OS X (Leopard) Wednesday 11 February 2009
• Granting site administrator permissions with WPMU Tuesday 10 February 2009
• Mollom beats Akismet at blocking spam Tuesday 10 February 2009
• Fixing a blank screen with the WordPress Mollom Plugin Monday 09 February 2009
• NVIDIA ION Actual Size Sunday 08 February 2009
• Install Wordpress and WP plugins with Subversion Thursday 05 February 2009
• Fubra Investment Roundup Feb 09 Wednesday 04 February 2009
• Stability versus Flexibility aka Euro versus Pound Friday 23 January 2009
• How to invest in a UK Limited Company Wednesday 21 January 2009
• How to install phpBB from Subversion (svn) Thursday 15 January 2009
• Java based Traceroute to diagnose connectivity problems Thursday 08 January 2009
• Replacing fluorescent lamps with LED T8 lights Thursday 08 January 2009
• How to borrow from the Bank of England Saturday 03 January 2009
• Bank of England Statistics Database Friday 02 January 2009
• What are Ways and Means Advances to HM Government? Friday 02 January 2009
• What is the Cash Ratio Deposit Scheme? Friday 02 January 2009
• A script to reset the MySQL root password Saturday 27 December 2008
• Great British Businesses Monday 22 December 2008
• Howto: Setup CloudFront as a Content Delivery Network Friday 19 December 2008
• Spam score an e-mail from the command line Wednesday 10 December 2008
• iPhone over the air sync with Google Calendar Thursday 27 November 2008
• Business Angel Investments Saturday 22 November 2008
• Cash is king (and always was in my opinion!) Saturday 22 November 2008
• The Obama Apollo Project Saturday 25 October 2008
• World's biggest cruise ships, by size Monday 20 October 2008
• Why can't governments just print money to fund spending? Monday 13 October 2008
• Attack of the Wee PCs Tuesday 07 October 2008
• Running mysqldump via ssh (direct host to host copy) Friday 03 October 2008
• A wget replacement for OS X Leopard Tuesday 16 September 2008
• Getting Apache, PHP and MySQL to work on Leopard Tuesday 16 September 2008
• Generating a Certificate Signing Request Wednesday 10 September 2008
• Apple Homepage - 4th Generation iPod Nano Tuesday 09 September 2008
• When sudo echo 'test' > /root/test gives permission denied Wednesday 03 September 2008
• Installing Zend Framework on Ubuntu (Hardy) Tuesday 02 September 2008
• Hosting multiple blogs on a single WordPress installation Sunday 31 August 2008
• iPhone firmware update fails Saturday 30 August 2008
• Always look for a voucher code when shopping online Tuesday 19 August 2008
• Aviator hotel in Farnborough Thursday 07 August 2008
• Brendan is addicted to ice cream Wednesday 06 August 2008
• Carnival comes to Aldershot Wednesday 06 August 2008
• Hard at work at Fubra Wednesday 06 August 2008
• Ice cream inflation Wednesday 06 August 2008
• New subaru imprezza wrx sti Wednesday 06 August 2008
• Testing out wordpress for the iphone Wednesday 06 August 2008
• iPhone on O2's Simplicity Tariffs - £25 a month Thursday 31 July 2008
• Installing the Brother MFC-9840CDW on Ubuntu Monday 28 July 2008
• SATA hard drives for our coraid ATAoE SAN Wednesday 16 July 2008
• Vacuum Cleaner Suction Power Saturday 12 July 2008
• rtorrent: Error in option file Saturday 05 July 2008
• Killing Processes Sunday 29 June 2008
• A credit card worth having Saturday 21 June 2008
• Site seeing in Rural Andalucia - Ronda Friday 13 June 2008
• 3G iPhone Monday 09 June 2008
• OS X Internet Connection Sharing Sunday 08 June 2008
• Who reads my blog? Thursday 29 May 2008
• Bupa London 10K 2008 Tuesday 27 May 2008
• Facebook Virus - Super Potent Legal Bud Friday 16 May 2008
• Runaway Inflation Thursday 15 May 2008
• Water Conditioner Road Test Tuesday 13 May 2008
• Asterisk - Outgoing calls rejected because extension not found Friday 02 May 2008
• Asterisk - Rejected incoming IAX connection Friday 02 May 2008
• Learning Asterisk Friday 02 May 2008
• Missing asterisk config files in Ubuntu / Debian Thursday 01 May 2008
• Mobile Broadband Market Roundup - May 2008 Thursday 01 May 2008
• Setting up asterisk-gui on Ubuntu Thursday 01 May 2008
• Installing phpMyAdmin Advanced Features on Ubuntu Wednesday 30 April 2008
• Army use Xbox-like controller to fly Desert Hawk 3 UAV Tuesday 29 April 2008
• Changing the Sent Items folder in OS X Mail Monday 28 April 2008
• Fixing the backspace key with OS X and Linux Screen Monday 28 April 2008
• How to show Wireless Network Connection Speed in OS X Friday 25 April 2008
• Free our data! Thursday 24 April 2008
• Encoding mp3 audio with ffmpeg on Ubuntu Hardy Tuesday 15 April 2008
• Fidler's castle Thursday 10 April 2008
• Using Xserve Server Monitor with localhost Thursday 10 April 2008
• Keeping Fit = More accurate maps Tuesday 08 April 2008
• Setting up a PXE install for Linux Thursday 03 April 2008
• Replacement bed slats Sunday 30 March 2008
• Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 with subversion Sunday 30 March 2008
• Secure browsing on an insecure network - the easy way! Sunday 16 March 2008
• Secure browsing on an insecure network with my Macbook Saturday 15 March 2008
• Downloading iPlayer MP4 streams on Linux Wednesday 12 March 2008
• Downloading MySQL rpms with a Linux one liner Thursday 21 February 2008
• Bed Bugs Wednesday 20 February 2008
• Office Toilet Facility Regulations Thursday 31 January 2008
• Local Petrol Price Data Friday 18 January 2008
• Macbook Air brings iPhone's multitouch to a laptop Wednesday 16 January 2008
• Organic Eggs? You need a Hen Home Wednesday 16 January 2008
• 02 / Be enables my local exchange Thursday 20 December 2007
• 2008... the year of the Electric Car? Monday 10 December 2007
• Real media to Xvid (divx) and cropping with Ubuntu Thursday 06 December 2007
• Google launches "My Location" - bring on the blue dot Wednesday 28 November 2007
• Virgin Media 20 Meg Speed Test Tuesday 27 November 2007
• Converting RealPlayer .rm files to MPEG (mp4) .avi with Ubuntu Sunday 25 November 2007
• Multi-process CLI scripts with PHP Tuesday 20 November 2007
• 123-reg nameserver problems Saturday 17 November 2007
• Upgrading WordPress with Subversion Saturday 17 November 2007
• T Mobile lock in = no iPhone for me..... yet Tuesday 13 November 2007
• Google's mobile strategy (Android) is spot on Monday 12 November 2007
• Army fly UAV Spy Plane with Xbox 360 Controller Sunday 04 November 2007
• 2500 litres of biofuel a year tax free Friday 02 November 2007
• Google assembles army against Microsoft-Facebook alliance Friday 02 November 2007
• iPhone UK TV ads begin Friday 02 November 2007
• More innovation from 3 with 3 Skype Phone Monday 29 October 2007
• Microsoft pays a premium to get some Facebook Sunday 28 October 2007
• Leopard + Wordpress = Ultimate Blogging Tool Saturday 27 October 2007
• Switching from blogger to wordpress Saturday 27 October 2007
• OS X 10.5 Leopard - First Impressions Friday 26 October 2007
• Fixing the arrow and delete keys in Vim on OS X Thursday 25 October 2007
• Querying postfix's queue size Wednesday 03 October 2007
• UK mobile broadband market - September 2007 Saturday 22 September 2007
• How to disable touchpad tapping (clicking) with Ubuntu Sunday 26 August 2007
• Cost of mobile roaming set to fall next week Saturday 25 August 2007
• PHP Syntax highlighting on Ubuntu Vim Tuesday 31 July 2007
• Historic Farnborough Sunday 29 July 2007
• Connecting OS X to GPRS/3G via T-mobile Tuesday 10 July 2007
• Transferring contacts from an N95 to OS X Tuesday 10 July 2007
• PHP Array to Text Table Function Sunday 01 July 2007
• England goes smoke free.... at last! Tuesday 29 May 2007
• How to remove duplicate data with MySQL Tuesday 29 May 2007
• Do we need a house price crash? Thursday 24 May 2007
• Tesco online should collect plastic bags for recycling Sunday 13 May 2007
• Ubuntu PXE (network) install with Fiesty Fawn (7.04) Sunday 13 May 2007
• How to fix the backspace key in screen Tuesday 01 May 2007
• Managing SSH Keys in Mac OS X Tuesday 01 May 2007
• Mac Mini + Ubuntu + Quagga join LINX Saturday 28 April 2007
• Can't login to Google Video Uploader Friday 13 April 2007
• Retrieving Yahoo Developer App ids Friday 30 March 2007
• BT launch 21st Century Phone Network API Sunday 11 March 2007
• Google launches Office Killer: Premier Apps Suite Thursday 22 February 2007
• Neighbouring uk postcodes Monday 19 February 2007
• Ofcom to launch 03 numbers Saturday 17 February 2007
• Broadband, Phone & TV Deals February 2007 Saturday 10 February 2007
• Installing Ubuntu on a Toshiba Satellite P15-S420 Laptop Saturday 10 February 2007
• Add value to your house through a loft conversion Friday 09 February 2007
• No excuse for bad spelling Friday 09 February 2007
• NTL becomes Virgin Media Friday 09 February 2007
• Snow Day! Thursday 08 February 2007
• Happy birthday fon, and thanks for the free routers Wednesday 07 February 2007
• Fon x (Skype + BT) = Bye Bye Vodafone? Tuesday 06 February 2007
• PHP function to convert from kilobytes to bytes Wednesday 13 December 2006
• Where to pre-order my Wii? Wednesday 22 November 2006
• ForSale - like ebay, but free Friday 17 November 2006
• Cron not running straight after reload Tuesday 31 October 2006
• How to stop junk (snail) mail Friday 20 October 2006
• SHOW GRANTS for all users on MySQL Wednesday 18 October 2006
• Job Centre Plus in a nice format Wednesday 11 October 2006
• Fixing MySQL Replication with duplicate key error Tuesday 10 October 2006
• Strange php problem where session_start hangs Wednesday 04 October 2006
• Ubuntu Dapper on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 7400 laptop Sunday 01 October 2006
• Google Translate adds Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic Saturday 30 September 2006
• Installing PDFlib on Fedora Core 4 Friday 08 September 2006
• Installing SQL-ledger on Fedora Core 3 Saturday 02 September 2006
• GPG Encryption with PHP Friday 01 September 2006
• PHP Classes / Objects vs Functions Friday 01 September 2006
• UK Area code list Thursday 31 August 2006
• Ubuntu Dapper Drake and WPA Encrypted Wifi Tuesday 29 August 2006
• A domain powered by Google Apps Monday 28 August 2006
• V22 Osprey Videos Sunday 13 August 2006
• 3D FPS Flash Game Saturday 29 July 2006
• How to Embed YouTube into WordPress Saturday 29 July 2006
• Blogs for girls Tuesday 25 July 2006
• Orange 3G Coverage Saturday 15 July 2006
• MySQL disk space error Thursday 13 July 2006
• Picasa Web Albums Sunday 02 July 2006
• Using the Pentax Optio WPi waterproof digital camera Friday 30 June 2006
• SPF breaks e-mail forwarding Monday 12 June 2006
• Home power generation Tuesday 06 June 2006
• Problem with MySQL cluster and Triggers Saturday 03 June 2006
• 1 Million Britons Struggling To Pay Debts Tuesday 23 May 2006
• Road Legal Buggies Tuesday 23 May 2006
• Build your own hot tub Saturday 06 May 2006
• British Army climb Mount Everest Sunday 16 April 2006
• Rsync on windows causing 100% CPU Sunday 16 April 2006
• del.icio.us firefox extension Friday 14 April 2006
• House Price Discussion Thursday 13 April 2006
• Azureus disk write error Wednesday 12 April 2006
• Sliding Folding Doors Wednesday 12 April 2006
• Google Maps API Version 2 Monday 03 April 2006
• Sky by Broadband - error 1722 Monday 03 April 2006
• BBC investigates dodgy estate agents Thursday 23 March 2006
• Internet kills the highstreet shop Tuesday 21 March 2006
• Salomon Crossmax 3V FSK Tuesday 21 March 2006
• The 39 dollar experiment Friday 10 March 2006
• howto Google Page Creator Sunday 26 February 2006
• Does the Google Blogger Widget support HTML? Saturday 25 February 2006
• Google mac widget for blogging Saturday 25 February 2006
• Chickens in the Garden Friday 17 February 2006
• Sister's Birthday Thursday 16 February 2006
• Website could save UK motorists £billions - PetrolPrices.com Tuesday 31 January 2006
• Shared Bookmarks Sunday 22 January 2006
• PHP / MySQL Table Editor Friday 25 November 2005
• Passing Adwords Exams Monday 14 November 2005
• Lost my cat Friday 11 November 2005
• Connecting VOIP to the PSTN Sunday 23 October 2005
• Google Adwords Apility MySQL Structure Monday 10 October 2005
• Petrol Prices and Google Maps Tuesday 27 September 2005
• Vegetable Oil as Vehicle Fuel Thursday 15 September 2005
• Good use of Google Maps and BBC Backstage Saturday 13 August 2005
• jpg to ASCII and tables Thursday 28 July 2005
• Google maps go hybrid! Tuesday 26 July 2005
• Bush wobbles on bike Wednesday 06 July 2005
• The Map Guru Monday 04 July 2005
• Property developers struggling to sell Sunday 03 July 2005
• Johnston Press RSS Feeds Wednesday 22 June 2005
• Google launches UK satellite maps Tuesday 21 June 2005
• Browse news by day Saturday 18 June 2005
• Free World Geo Data Thursday 02 June 2005
• What are Scooby strings? Sunday 29 May 2005
• Free calls from your mobile Sunday 22 May 2005