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Right at this very moment, I am going through the motions of upgrading the very last of our (great many) WordPress blog sites to WP 2.5 – probably when completed, we’ll see 2.6 hit the WordPress.org site! However, for the last of these upgrades, I’ve had to unzip locally and upload by FTP as I’m [...]

Following an article in The Register about the backdating of the new point-based immigration system, I have found the best comparison I could of Liam Byrne, the minister for immigration, and Herr Flick, the Nazi investigator out of Allo Allo. However, since I have been writing about the new Indiana Jones film today, I personally [...]

Everyone writes about the same stuff, so today I won’t be mentioning: Earth Hour – That was so last year! In fact, I covered it then, and now everyone has copied me; including Google Blacking Out – Google’s gone black. Wow. They got into the Earth Hour too. Unfortunately everyone with a blog (there’s a [...]

Yet again, the decision to live and work from our new idyllic rural base has come back and bitten us on the arse as our laughably sporadic broadband supply has cut out for the second time in a week.As the providers, updaters and general managers of a number of database driven sites, we kind of [...]

Gung hei fat choy! Today marks the beginning of a fifteen day celebration to mark the Year of the Rat. 7th February is a new moon and the festival will end with the full moon on Friday 22nd February -the Lantern Festival. Those rats amongst us will now be 1, 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, [...]

The Gaol at Kilmainham provides a welcome insight into Ireland’s struggle for self-rule as well as a comprehensive museum of crime and punishment throughout the ages. Not knowing what to expect, we were treated to an comprehensive hour-long tour of the Gaol by a very well-informed guide. Not only did he draw attention to the [...]

The RBS 6 Nations rugby union tournament begins in a couple of short weeks, on 2 Feb, and provides England with the first opportunity to show that they have retained some of their Rugby World Cup impetus. Now, as then, I will be watching every game with interest, and will in all probability be writing [...]

Now that Christmas is over, I will get around to writing a review of the various flights we have taken to and from Australia, who offered the best value, and the best experience. The cheapest deal we discovered was for a flight from Melbourne to Newcastle (UK) via London Heathrow with Quantas, which we sourced [...]

President Musharraf’s declaration of an emergency in Pakistan presents the West with effective blackmail. Ousting the President of Pakistan runs the risk of giving nuclear arms to extreme Islamists, another military despot or the descent of a restless and divided people into anarchy similar to that of Afghanistan. However, Musharraf’s flagrant disregard for his own [...]

You knew it was coming, and this week it arrived: Google has re-aligned its PageRank display (you know, the toolbar one that we webmasters live and breathe by). I knew this site had been boosted a lot of late, as the World’s Greatest Blog is performing extremely well in SERPs, but I have been particularly [...]