Nominet Registrar Information Day

I was lucky enough a week or two back to get a day away from the screen up in London to attend Nominet’s registrar information day. The event had a sensible start time of 9.30 for registration (presentations starting at 10.00) making travelling up the same day just about possible (i.e getting up at 5 [...]

WordPress as a website CMS?

As further proof that whenever you have an idea the Internet is capable of crushing you by showing you that someone has already done it, I’ve been meaning to write an article on this for a while – and now I don’t need to.

Updating a personal website has always been something I’ve known I [...]

Year Zero Review

It has been such a very long time since there was a record that really mattered, a record that can get under your skin. Something that tries to take on the world, chew it up and spit it out, snarling and cool all at the same time.

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Panic by Jeff Abbott – book review

I’ll confess something, for a while I got sick of thrillers. Slowly discovering plot detail from impossibly dangerous situation to impossibly dangerous situation whilst enduring the odd quiet bit just got… old. Perhaps absence makes the heart grow fonder however, because I really enjoyed Panic.

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Upgrading to Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Review

Doing an OS upgrade is often troublesome. It is better to back up your data and do a clean install. Most of us don’t for various reasons. I always try upgrades before clean installs – it’s probably a form of self abuse.

This version of Kubuntu has a shiny new upgrade wizard which made this [...]

RapidSwitch / 49 Pence Dedicated Server Review

Background

I run a gaming clan who require dedicated hardware for flexibility in what server processes we run. After not being satisfied with previous providers in terms of support we decided to give 49 Pence (now RapidSwitch) a go in Nov 2005 and we’ve been there since. We rent a CentOS(64bit) AMD64 machine, with a [...]

Servage.net Review

Servage.net are a company offering large amounts of shared hosting resources for a reasonable price – do they measure up?

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Flatout 2 Review

The destruction derby style racer gets a makeover. Is it enough of an improvement to be worth playing?

The original Flatout managed to provide a good sensation of speed and destruction, however it just wasn’t finished. Things like a decent menu system and car upgrades were glaring omissions and the whole thing felt too short.

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