I am really looking forward to the freedom and fun that will come on Saturday 15th September, when I move to uni and thought its about time I blogged about it.
I will be going to the University of Huddersfield in the UK to do a BSc(Hons) degree (Bachelor of Science) in Software Development, where I [...]

Hi, today’s been a bit of a rush. I went into town and did some uni shopping, I got most of it and it came to less than 50 quid, so that aint bad at all, I know people who are spending hundreds and hundreds on this stuff.
I also had some strange calls today, probably [...]

I have recently learnt how to design and code wordpress themes and now that most of my sites were based on Wordpress I have decided that it would be a good idea to redesign this blog. I like this Mac theme but I have always liked a darker theme, something that makes the blog feel [...]

I am sorry that I haven’t been able to blog for a while because I have been working on some other projects and saving up for university, but now I am going to come back and I am going to make it more personal. Everyday (fingers crossed) I will put a post on before I [...]

Hi, just a heads up to anybody who is interested, I got the grades I needed to go to the University of Huddersfield here in the UK to do a BSc(Hons) degree in Software Development.
Its a four year course, 3 years of teaching (year 1, 2 and 4) and a year in a work placement [...]

As a programmer myself, I understand that when I produce file formats, I have to ensure that I don’t overwrite somebody else’s format, this website will ensure that I don’t ever do this, this may help you out as well:
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
Simon North

I am waiting for that idea to pop into my head that will make me millions, it hasn’t really come yet, but it has for many other people, just look at http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, and you’ll see, this guy started a webpage which had 1 million pixels of advertising space available, advertisers could then buy 1 pixel [...]

Wordpress have added a new theme to their theme list available to blogs hosted on the Wordpress server. Called Neo-Sapien, it looks great. I have never been drawn to themes that have had more than one sidebar, but this one is great.
If your wondering what it looks like, well look at this blog [...]

 I came across XGL a while back, but revisited it yesterday. If you dont know what it is, I will explain. It makes Linux beautiful with masses of effects and a cube like interface where you move between the desktops like a cube. I think that a video will speak louder than words, so I’ve [...]

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Pingdom have published a report to show how much downtime, the top 20 sites on the internet, had in the past 3 months of 2007. The list goes as follows:
Website                  Downtime (M=minutes, HR=hour)

Yahoo                    0m
Google                   7m
Myspace                1hr
MSN                       2hr 45m
eBay                      6m
YouTube                4hr 44m
Facebook               25m
Wikipedia              2hr 23m
Craigslist               1hr 9m
Live                       1hr 48m
Amazon                 21m
Blogger                  4hr 47m
Go                         8m
AOL                       3m
Microsoft              13m
CNN                       22m
Comcast                3m
IMDB                     29m
Flickr                     30m
Photobucket         1hr 23m

The order represents the [...]