May 18th 2012
RT @alanogden: going to introduce @madnexus to proper fish and chips for #fridaylunch @3dpixelnet @snetty

May 14th 2012
all servers are now upgraded to 1Gbit connections.

May 9th 2012
So your website has been hacked? #salvagemysite http://t.co/mOjhgegC

April 25th 2012
the cobalt platform is back up and running now.

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HMRC Apology Letter

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Thought some people may be interested in this. After the debacle about losing families’ details they decided to send a letter our which we received this morning. A personal apology no less. Makes me feel 10 times better of course.

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Vista, Was Windows XP too good?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Almost 1 year ago to the day, Microsoft announced that Vista was to be released to business customers on November 30th 2006 and subsequently to everyone else on January 30th 2007. A year later what has the impact of Vista been?
Major file copying bugs, Silly hardware requirements, multiple flavours that confuse ordinary people (not you [...]

The VAT Man – Lovely People

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Someone said to me today, “we’re not going vat registered, it’s too difficult”. Our experience of this was that they are the friendliest set of people we spoke to in the year. Wonder why?
You suddenly turn round to them and say, “Dear Mr VAT man, we’ve decided recently that we’re going to add 17.5% to [...]