Category: General

Today saw the final of The Apprentice where Sir Alan Sugar finally selected 26 year old Michelle Dewberry as his new employee. I’ve enjoyed the series immensely and rapidly learnt the names of all the apprentices which is a great tribute to the series as my memory for names is pitiful. Over the last three… Continue reading The Apprentice

The new .eu domains went on sale sometime around December 2005. Being new and also a 2 character TLD (Top level domain) I fancied a couple, despite not really having any idea of what I wanted to use them for. The process for registration was extraordinarily protracted with registrants not knowing if they had a… Continue reading .eu Domain Registration

I can accept that the countryside consists of mainly farmland, but I cannot accept the view that the countryside consists of nothing but the farming industry. In fact it’s probably reasonable to say that modern farming is destroying the countryside. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are responsible for causing immense damage to the countryside, converting it… Continue reading The countryside

Anonymity used to be a secret. Now everyone wants it.

I love aircraft, I just wish there were some good ones left.

Mailing lists are so difficult to read if people don’t thread messages.

More for work than a personal requirement, this is my simpletons guide to tunnelling over SSH

Some useful IRC commands that I constantly forget: /msg nickserv register [password] [email] [additional info] Register a nickname /ignore JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS Ignore joins, parts, quits and nickname changes /ctcp [nick] version Returns details of the irc client being used by [nick] /mode [chan] +o [nick] Promotes [nick] to Operator status on channel [chan]… Continue reading IRC Stuff