Since starting to shoot on a more professional basis some time ago, it wasn’t long before two main issues started to become apparent on a nearly daily basis. Firstly, you can never have enough kit… Just when you think you have all the gear you need, you suddenly find a lens you can’t live without,…
It’s supposed to be spring time… right?
With a growing collection of wellies by our door, a picture seemed in order…
As some of you may be aware, I’m currently involved in building a cloud-based DR environment for a couple of core business systems. We opted to use Amazon EC2 for this, and I thought I’d share a few observations gleaned along the way. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be taking a look…
This was forwarded onto me earlier this week… I never usually forward stuff like this onwards but this just amused. Can you read the following message…? F1gur471v31y 5p34k1ng? Good example of a Brain Study. If you can read this you have a strong mind. 7H15 M3554G3 53RV35 7O PR0V3 H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N D0…
“Cloud Hosting” is possibly one of the most used, but yet also most misunderstood terms in current use across the Internet. Cloud means many things to many people, yet has the ability to generate images of limitless potential & strictly imposed limitations – all at the same time. Among those who have not really…
Dear potential spammer, In case you haven’t noticed, it’s a rare occasion that a piece of marketing junk submitted here as a comment against a post will actually appear. We filter all comments before they’re posted and if our automated spam filters fail to catch them, our manual review will. Either way, we do not…
With traffic to this website steadily increasing, I’ve been spending some time attempting to look at how I could get more relevant and useful content surfaced onto the site’s homepage.
In earlier posts I briefly talked about the dramatic performance improvements you can get by using Nginx to run your PHP / WordPress websites and touched on some of the vital steps that need to be done to start tuning WordPress for performance. If you’re interested in the idea of using Nginx but wondering where…
Replacing radiator valves without draining your central heating system is something that can be achieved with a few simple additional tools (bungs), a heating system that’s in reasonable condition, and a small helping of luck! This is a pretty safe & simple way to do small changes to pipework or routine maintenance tasks such as removing radiators…
To mark a bit of a milestone in Sam’s life, thought I’d quickly post this. His first pair of proper “cruising” shoes…. Now very necessary as he’s probably going to be walking independently in few weeks at the latest. Shot with an EOS 5D & EF 24-70 f2.8L, and processed through Aperture & Nik Software’s…
Just over a month ago now, we launched a pair of commercial WordPress websites for a local business initially using a top-end “dual hosted” Business plan provided by 1&1. We went this route for a number of reasons, one being the significant amount of advertising 1&1 seem to produce (applying the “they can’t be that bad” concept),…
After trawling through some older posts on here to tidy up images & content following the recent relaunch of my site, I thought it might be useful to make copies of the wiring diagrams I used to sort out our central heating system. The diagram set includes wiring plans for a number of popular configurations…
Following on from my last post, Getting Started with WordPress & Nginx, assuming you’ve decided to go down the VPS or Dedicated server route (rather than shared hosting) there are a few things you need to get installed as a priority to ensure good performance. If however you’re unable to use a virtual private server…
WordPress started life as a simple blogging tool back in 2003, with a handful of users who began to gradually switch to WordPress from other contemporary blogging tools – preferring WordPress’s flexibility. Now, WordPress is one of the most popular web content management systems on the Internet, supporting millions of websites and apparently being used…
Hello, This is what started as a test post created via Blogsy on my iPad. I have no idea why I haven’t come across this app before, as it looks like it was released earlier in 2011. Instead, I’ve essentially been actively avoiding use of other contemporary iPad apps in favour of the online…
For those who haven’t come across it yet, there’s a scam doing the rounds at the moment with someone from a dubious overseas call centre phoning you and offering to sort out your computer. Various reasons are offered by someone who vaguely sounds like they know what they’re doing, with an end game of getting…
Having taken the plunge, I’m writing this on a shiny new 2010 Macbook Air 13″ (2.13Ghz Core2Duo, 4Gb ram & 256Gb SSD) – which UPS kindly delivered earlier today. For the last few years I’ve been happily using an early 2008 non-unibody Macbook Pro equipped with a 2.5Ghz Intel C2D, 4Gb ram and possibly the…
Twitter can be a simply incredible communication & marketing tool, offering what can only be described as an unparalleled mechanism for communicating with your customers or readers. It’s somewhat comical however just how quickly some things can change from being exceptionally helpful, to becoming an ongoing challenge in terms of sorting the wood from the…
Having been using Apple’s Aperture 2 photographic workflow tool for what feels like a lifetime, I thought that the imminent arrival of a new Macbook was a prime opportunity to try out the latest & greatest version. If you work with photos on a Mac and have never used Aperture before, suggest go taking a look at…
