A song about Lovely Birmingham

I'm not a fan of YouTube but I was sent this video this morning and it made me smile, I must find out when the choir's next in town...

Father Christmas of the future?

I saw the new Debenhams Christmas advert this morning which featured a young father Christmas dancing around what I can only assume was a modern Santa’s grotto and I couldn’t help wondering whether this will be the way forward for Santa in the future –no more fat old

40% discount voucher for the Threshers Group

For those of you who like to dabble in a little festive cheer, I thought I’d share this 40% discount voucher for the Threshers Group. The main catch is you’re only allowed to spend £500 at a time –best get that printer started… Download the 40% discount voucher

Deleting "Ghost" extensions from FireFox

Since updating Firefox to v1.5 I had a number of extensions that I couldn’t remove from the list because they were greyed out, this was somewhat irritating as I had the later versions installed too and so I was getting duplicates (see below) Today I decided to see

A simple tale

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and

Prank Caller

I was sent this comedy prank call this morning so thought I'd share it... Demolition Girl prank caller (DemolitionGirl.mp3)

Vista headaches already –and it's not even released yet!

I installed a copy of Vista onto a Virtual PC for testing purposes and due to the way this PC is configured Virtual PC always catches me out and sets the default network adaptor as my VPN which means I can’t get any internet connectivity on the Virtual PC,

Atlas – AJAX Update issues (Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Web.Extensions.Design)

Being a fair way into an application that relies heavily on Atlas I wasn’t best pleased to hear that Microsoft had done the usual comedy act of renaming the framework which would mean we’d have to update a plethora of controls. Today we bit the bullet and along

Making sense of database responses

We're nearing the end of a large system for the lovely people over at Consolidated Communications Management Ltd and we've just come across a nice idea to make sense of database responses. Typically in the past we've simply returned -1/0 for failure and

The 300 mile club -I'm finally in!

I’ve been a member of the RX-8 Owners Club since I bought the 8 –a little sad but there’s great discounts and help on the forums so I thought it was worth the £30pa, anyhow, they’ve had the converted 300mile club on the forum for a while