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Tim Gaunt

Phra Pathom Chedi

On the way to see Phra Pathom Chedi we stopped off in a local craft centre where they carve all sorts of interesting items out of Teak1, some of the items take months to do but look amazing when they’re done. I would have loved to buy one of

First Impressions

Awesome. That’s the first and pretty much the only word that really describes Thailand. Interestingly it’s also a word that I’m using a lot at the moment –the last time was after driving the RX-8. It’s (obviously) very different from England, we’ve not really seen

Here we go...

I expect this will be the last entry before we go, its most exciting to think that in 24hours we'll be half way around the world! I would have thought I would be more nervous, not about flying for 11hours, going to a fairly undeveloped/deprived area or

The scourge of Google and public facing blogs

I had a meeting with a lovely new client today and part way through the conversation they mentioned that the had been looking for my mobile number online, when typing my name into Google though you’re faced with an abundance of the messages that I leave on mailing lists

The Art of complaining

I don’t know about you, but personally I’m not good at complaining, I don’t like complaining and I don’t do it very often –except for when I feel it’s really justified. This past weekend however gave me cause to readjust my thinking. What happened this

Stopping Outlook Blocking Attachments

I know this is covered all over the web but I'm forever forgetting it so if Outlook has started blocking email attachments i.e. ASP files you can easily adjust this by adding

Pricing your work

There are two questions I get asked a lot by people who are thinking about becoming self-employed and even those already running a business. The first is How do you get the work? –this is something I’ll blog about in more detail later as the second is what I

Bulk Granting EXECTUTE Permission on SQL Server

Here's some code I regularly find useful when going from a dev server to a production server (or changing the username), I'm sure there's a more automated way but for a quick fix... DECLARE @username varchar(100)SET @username = 'xyz'SELECT'

PAS 78 available for free download

A while ago the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in collaboration with BSI released a guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites called Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 78. The guidelines outline good practice in commissioning websites that are accessible to and usable by disabled people. Originally it was made available

Internet acronyms -What do they mean and when to use them

dl.accronyms{ clear: left; } dl.accronyms dt{ float: left; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 5px 0 0; width: 100px; } Having been chatting on the net for a long time, I use internet acronyms in most of my day-day conversations over instant messengers (IMs). When you get used to them they'