by Rob on December 6, 2012, no comments
I’ve been setting up a new blog lately and as I’m familiar with it, I chose WordPress (self-hosted) to power it. I purchased a VPS this time around which only gave me 128MB total RAM to play with, but I thought that should be more than enough to run a low-traffic WordPress blog. After getting [...]
by Rob on July 27, 2009, no comments
It’s been a while since I’ve had a rant about something on here, but this one has been bubbling for a long time. I’ve read several articles over the last few months relating to how Apple always seem to be ‘working’ with record labels and movie distributors to improve sales of albums and movies on [...]
by Rob on June 11, 2009, 3 comments
Firstly, I’ve been using NearlyFreeSpeech for years, and they’ve always been great. They’re a very low cost hosting method, working on a pay-as-you-go basis. However, they’re not the best hosting environment for those that prefer things to ‘just work’. You need to be a little more technically minded to host your site with NFS, or [...]
by Rob on May 7, 2009, 10 comments
I recently bought an O2 Mobile Broadband ‘Pay & Go’ dongle. The Huawei E160 variety. Its a neat little dongle, which also has a slot for a MicroSD card. A colleague of mine wanted to get some kind of mobile broadband solution for his netbook – an Acer Aspire One. Brilliant little machine. I fancy [...]
by Rob on April 24, 2009, no comments
My iMac broke a few months ago. Nothing too serious, but annoying nonetheless. The Superdrive decided that it would eat any disc that you put in the slot, and would not eject it. You could hear the mechanism whirring away, but then a nice stressful ‘clunk’, as the disc was eaten again. The disc never [...]