Away for another few days

I’m not long back from Valencia but I’m away for the weekend to Belfast to stay with my brother and his wife. Belfast is a lot like Glasgow, only smaller. The flight there is very quick and easy too and it’s only about 35 minutes from Glasgow Prestwick. We did …

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Metal Gear Solid 4 out today

When I wake up I should hopefully have my copy of Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3. Just when I was starting to play GTA4 a bit less they go and bring out the game I’ve been waiting to get for years! The one player game is supposed to …

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The World Wide Web is 15 today

Although the internet has been around since the 70’s, it was on 30th April 1993 that Cern brought the world wide web to the public domain. I didn’t start using the internet regularly til my first year at uni in 1996. When we first started we were all fascinated by …

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Windows XP SP3 delayed for a few days

Microsoft released XP Service Pack 3 yesterday but it was quickly pulled back and delayed. It seems like you can download XP SP3 from the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview page. Apparently it was delayed because of a glitch in the way it works with MS Retail Management Systems …

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Growmatik

Growmatik Review – Turn Your Visitors Into Customers

Growmatik is a feature-rich marketing service that helps you convert visitors into customers. The service describes itself as an “Omni-Channel Marketing” solution, which means that the focus is on providing users with the right content at the right time. The overall goal is to give people value. In practice, what …

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Target Practice Trading

Target Practice Trading

Tech Stack: Javascript, React, MongoDB, Express, JSX/HTML and CSS In this group project, we had five days to build a stock tracking application. Three friends and I opted to modify the brief by building a cryptocurrency trading application instead. The application allows anyone to register themselves as a player and …

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Elementor

Three Reasons to Use Elementor (And Three Reasons Not To)

For many years, this website used the popular WordPress theme Genesis by StudioPress. It remains one of my favourite WordPress frameworks, but in early 2020 I wanted to try something different and opted for the lightweight WordPress design GeneratePress. I can’t speak highly enough about GeneratePress. It’s one of the …

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