Recent Posts Tagged With 'General'

• Dependant on Mobile Broadband

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 13:53 in General

  Image by laihiu via Flickr We’re heading down to Malta over Christmas, and the big problem I’m going to have is trying to live without my usual mobile broadband connection. I wasn’t as reliant on it since I got my new Android...

• When cybersquatters try the extortion game

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 06:54 in advice, General, domain name, cybersquatting

  Image via Wikipedia An interesting case at work today, where a website owner got targeted by a company/individual who had registered a number of domain names relevant to them and was trying to sell them at £3000 a pop. As you can imagine, the web...

• Grab a remote for me

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 15:56 in gadget, General, remote control

  Do you ever get a feeling you have too many remote controls in your living room? I got that today while stabbing my find at one of the remotes, only to find out what I was using the wrong one and I was really changing channel on the DVD recorder, whi...

• Joomla vs WordPress

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 08:15 in wordpress, General, content management system, web hosting geeks

  Image via Wikipedia I came across a good post that outlines the main differences between using Joomla and WordPress as a CMS. It’s not too long, and goes into what it considers the main differences between the two platforms, notably that Joo...

• Half a million reasons to be proud

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 17:33 in General, widget, tweetroll

  When was the last time you built something that was used half a million times? Well, @HyderJ and I built a widget for Twitter a few weeks ago and this evening we’ve reached the grand total of 500,000 widgets served. The widget let’s peopl...

• Can’t we just grow up?

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 08:16 in people, General, death threats, arrington

  It was with sadness what that I read that Michael Arrington has decided to take a leave of absence after he was physically abused in the street. In his post he also talks about other confrontations he’s had over his success with TechCrunch incl...

• BenSpark’s holding a contest

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 11:12 in clothing, General, competition, t-shirt

  Just got a Tweet from BenSpark who’re running a contest with some T-shirts to give away. I was singled out because I had commented on a previous competition of his because it was only open to people in the US. This one, however, is internationa...