For some strange reason this nonsense made it onto the BBC News website. It may not be immediately obvious to everyone, but one family are convinced they can see the face of Jesus on the lid of a jar of Marmite. Claire Allen, 36, said she was the f… more »

It looks like the National Health Service might soon be willing to provide acupuncture for suffers of back pain, thanks to guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. What is acupuncture? Essentially its the notion that d… more »

Tom Gromak wrote up a post detailing his experiences with Windows 7.  However, almost everything he mentions positive of it, is present in Windows Vista, which he seems to dismiss out of hand. Windows 7 is everything Vista was not: Sleek, styli… more »

Congratulations Timothy Peake on being Britain's first ESA astronaut. But several media outlets as per usual have got things slightly wrong, so let's gets the correction out there. The Daily Telegraph for example says "Meet the first astronaut to fly… more »

I've been complaining about this for ages, crappy HSDPA coverage in the centre of town from O2 - annoyingly just going a couple of hundred metres west or east would sort it out, so just a tiny strip of the town was missing out, GPRS was the best we could… more »

Following on from my previous post on the subject of my new server, its been running fine for a week. Here's the thing sat next to the old server. Much smaller, and much more likely to survive the journey to Guildford - I've actually decided to u… more »

Today I'm putting together a new server, its based on an Asus T3 barebones system, I've got a 2.5Ghz dual core Pentium for it, and 4GB of RAM. As well as some of the new low power Western Digital disks. This will be replacing my 9 year old system… more »