It’s not that I didn’t have anything to say, it’s just that I keep on convincing myself I was too busy to say it. Or something like that. Since I last posted lots has happened that’s noteworthy in my world, so I feel a little guilty for not saying at least something. In the Online marketing / SEO world two cute black & …

So you’ve survived a disaster, fire or other adverse event, and you need to shift staff home to work because the office is a pile of smoking rubble. Their PC’s from work are by a stroke of luck usable, and they’ve got broadband. Two thumbs up there. But about that printer driver you need… It requires admin rights. The …

Ever since some smart chap, or chappess, came up with the idea of a check list and impressed the boss the world has been beset with a search for bigger, better tools to replace what was essentially a very good idea. Taken to the it’s illogical conclusion this search can lead even the most sensible people to a point …

Anyone who has anything even remotely to do with web development will be smiling at the news that Youtube is going to discontinue support for IE6. Not only that, we’ve got a date. 13th of March, 2010. While this isn’t really the end, it will certainly put that little bit more pressure on the roughly 15-20% of internet …

This is a story for everyone who has a need of tools no matter what their craft or trade. The Carpenters Hammer, a painters brushes, the janitors broom. A few years ago, about eighteen in fact, we lived in a 2 bedroom flat in Christchurch city. It was in a block of four on a section which probably should have only held …

The idea of keeping things simple when it comes to server security is not at all radical and cloud servers provide the ability to reach the not so lofty goal of keeping your servers simple and secure without breaking the bank. The theory is simple: The smaller the number of processes you have running on your box the …

This blog is now coming to you from a cloud. A rackspace cloud server that is. Two of them in fact, the front end server running the CMS, and the back-end MySQL server. The concept of cloud computing really isn’t all that new, but if you’re all at sea when it comes to clouds you might want to toodle over to Wikipedia …