There's a scene in the movie 'Blazing Saddles' where the Waco Kid, being asked why he's ended up in prison for drunkenness, bewails the fact that when he was the well known gun-slinger everyone wanted…
I am currently tinkering with a phpBB3 installation for a forum I ran until the summer of this year – Coffeehouse Chat. I shut the site down in the summer, but am now contemplating opening it up again…
I appreciate that this is likely to be one of those posts that will annoy some folks, but, here we go. A couple of days ago I was invited by two or three separate people to join Facebook Groups and si…
One of my 'guilty secret' films is the 1982 John Badham movie 'War Games', in which a teenager inadvertently starts the countdown to World War 3 by hacking in to a military computer system. He thinks …
I'm currently renovating a site of mine -Coffeehouse Chat- with a possible view to re-opening the Forum side of it with new and improved features - including better integration with Social Media and U…
I'm currently doing some development work using ASP.NET against an Oracle database. I have to say that I've had more frustrating development experiences, but most of those involved mainframe computer…
I just came across this on my Twitter feed - a reference to a " 'Future of the web' Turtle" at Open 09. Yup - a turtle. After some Googling about and learning more than I ever wanted to know about o…
Many moons ago I posted a piece on here -'Am I a twit not to twitter'. Well, I'll admit it. Yes, I was a twit not to Tweet, and I'm happy to say that. I can't argue with objective facts, so here's …
I rarely post twice in succession on the same item. But hey, it's a very wet November 1st, it's Sunday, we're still in recession and I've let my tea go cold. Oh, and the issue concerned is one of th…
There are days when we all feel like chucking it in. There have been a couple of occasions when I've basically thought that using a certain web site, dealing with a particular individual or organisat…