So earlier in the week, I posted up the source of ddserver.pl, which is a Dynamic DNS server which I’m using to track a machine with a rapidly-changing

I tend to loathe people using terms like ‘simple’ and ‘advanced’ when used to describe software products, because it assumes a level of context in which you have

God I hate maven. I’m not the only one who feels this way, either. Let me count the ways. The syntax is verbose, obfuscated and generally horrible. It’s

So a couple of weeks ago I created a blog entry which described how I use TimeSnapper to preserve images of my desktop, and how I used an

So computer interfaces have been getting easier and easier to use, as we move from command-line interfaces to WIMP, to one-application-at-a-time-as-long-as-it’s-represented-as-a-big-coloured-square. This is all part of a long-running

So I get this email the other day from my ISP From - Tue Jan 08 05:17:43 2013 X-Account-Key: account10 X-UIDL: 1248218041.44 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path:

So one of the things I’ve been working on is a physical direct-mail campaign management system, using addresses sourced from various mailing list databases, and, due to the

So my 2013 resolutions included writing up a blog per week, and it looks like I’m averaging 9 blogs after 7 or so weeks, so not too bad

Warning: may contain raunch. Part One So OK, I haven’t been back on the blog train for a few years so this is probably old hat for everyone

Way back when the internet was young and exciting, everyone wanted to be the new altavista or geocities or whatever. Unfortunately, these companies have multiple syllables in their