EE’s bargain basement broadband
Having recently moved into a new flat, I found myself back on the market for an internet connection for the third time in as many years. There's no Virgin Me...
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Moving our Bytemark server to York
We've had a dedicated server at Bytemark since 2009. This has always been physically located in Manchester, which has been fine. However, recently Bytemark f...
Motorway driving
I drove from Coniston to Oxford today. It took far too long, mostly because both the M6 and the M40 kept bunching up and slowing down. Often, the cause of de...
Cheap GPS
No, not that cheap GPS. This one: I bought myself a Garmin Dakota 10 last year to use for road cycling. It does a great job for that - crucially, the basic U...
London Gatwick? Obviously not.
I spent last week walking in Austria. And jolly nice it was too - the weather was near-perfect, the hotel was a lovely little family-run establishment with g...
TalkTalk Business, the good and the bad
Last year, the assimilation of Be into Sky prompted us to have a think about our internet provider at the church. We have a single phone line into the church...
New church sound systems
Last month at St Columba's, we finally had some lovely new AV equipment installed. As the bloke sorting it all out (or "project champion", as I might be refe...
Late nights in London
I read with interest Adrian Kennard's blog post about late nights in London. If he thinks he's got it bad, he should try living in Oxford - which is, as I on...
Blocking executable files (even buried inside ZIPs) in Exim
One of the handful of family members I host e-mail for had a narrow escape the other day, just about managing to avoid opening an .exe file buried inside a Z...
Sometimes, you just don’t want to be right
It's been a few years since I "enjoyed" writing code to mangle Microsoft Office documents, but I've been getting back into such things at work lately. My tea...