I arrived in Koh Samui on Friday. Last night, I went to the ATM and the machine swallowed my bank card. So this morning I went into the shop the ATM was inside and asked who to contact. They pointed me towards a kiosk down the street, who in turn …
One of my favourite features of my Nokia N95 8GB is the GPS function. It has helped me on a few occasions, particularly when travelling somewhere I’ve never been before. The Nokia Maps application is pretty good. It’s a bit slow but it does a good job and I was …
There has been a great quote from Karl Marx going around the web recently which is relevant in todays struggling economy. Marx’s work was the foundation of Communism. In Western societies Communism (and sometimes Socialism) is labelled as evil. However, there is no disputing that this statement from Karl Marx …
A few days ago I noticed that videos were not playing in sound in FireFox. My laptop was still playing sound ok through windows media player and internet explorer but not through FireFox. I checked my mixer panel via the sound icon and it said that sound was not working …
After having a well earned holiday of 5 days in the amazingly beautiful Valencia (Spain), I came back to 2 of my forums being attacked by a host of spammer bots. On Electric Bandits, which is a very new forum, they had managed to post about 50 posts advertising drugs, …
I have been using the domain name System0.net for my online presence (ie. my home page) since 2002. I never really thought about getting the .com but I checked recently and saw that the owner was selling it through Sedo. When I first registered the name I of course checked …
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 …
I’m launched a UK based gaming blog. I have already put the blog online however im waiting til the blog has a little more content before giving it a unique design etc. The blog will be targeted towards UK gamers and will cover all aspects of gaming. Namely : PS3, …
In the last month or so I have tried out a lot of scripts and tested them out. Pligg was probably the best one I tried but at the moment it’s very buggy and the modules available are not the most user friendly. I spent a while testing the RSS …