How to buy a used car

November 5, 2009
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Somewhat off-topic, I’ll admit, but I’ve worked with Automotive clients for years helping to teach them how to sell properly so perhaps I’m well placed to help you get the right deal for you. Having just bought a used Toyota Verso, here are my practical observations: Choose your car before you go to the dealer [...]

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First steps in object oriented PHP

October 27, 2009

PHP gets a bad press from time to time, largely because its very flexibility is seen as laxness by the tight sphincter brigade. However, just because PHP doesn’t force “best practice” on programmers doesn’t mean you can’t adopt said best practice. Object oriented programming is much talked about and has many advantages over the old-school [...]

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The Bletchley Park Situation

October 27, 2009

I live in Milton Keynes and have been to Bletchley Park many time. As you probably know, Bletchley Park was the home of the “codebreakers” in the Second World War who cracked the various enemy codes (including the infamous Enigma Code) and are credited with shortening the war. The park became, by default, owned by [...]

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Safari

October 27, 2009

Just run the Safari browser to check a site (it was already installed) only to find that it has automatically set itself to be my default browser. The Apple control-freakery spreads… Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Let down by the Mechanical Turk

October 26, 2009

Had a little job that would have suited Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service but it’s not available outside the US. Pity. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Unbelievable Royal Mail

October 26, 2009

To my utter disbelief, I have today received an email from my “Royal Mail Business Consultant” (some might call it spam, especially since it’s not personalised, but that’s quite another matter) offering to meet me to discuss a new service they’re offering (“Royal Mail Tracked”). ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH? My post isn’t even being [...]

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EKM Powershop

October 25, 2009

Extremely irritated by services that insist I change my password. The latest is EKM Powershop, an online ecommerce service. Now I have yet another new password to remember. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Dell madness

October 25, 2009

I bought a cheapish Dell desktop (Studio 540 with Q8200 chip)  a couple of months back and have been pleased with it so far. However, I've just had occasion to go to the "Power Options" panel (not something you do often on a desktop) to find that I've been running the "Dell Recommended" plan which [...]

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PS3 frustration

October 21, 2009

Recently moved from XBox 360 to PS3 but am finding the need to update every single game before I can play it driving me NUTS. Bought “Little Big Planet” yesterday, slotted it in, spent the next hour downloading and installing 500MB of updates! Can’t they get the bloody thing right before releasing it? Why is [...]

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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

October 20, 2009

Yahoo’s developer team has come up with 34 best practices (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html) for speeding up your web pages. Now, some of them are marginal in effect but all the tips get you thinking about how you go about the most common activities (for example, inserting images into a web page) and how they affect the page [...]

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