Check out the superb Saddam and Osama Cartoon! The Isle Of Thanet, where I grew up, could have been called The Isle of Death if historians are to be believed. Actually, you’ld probably call it that if you took a day trip there in the Winter. Check the BBC history … Continue reading →

The upcoming Nintendo Revolution next-gen games console has been renamed the Nintendo Wii. Lots of people are knocking this change but I don’t think it matters. I mean the GameBoy and PlayStation sounded very camp when they came out but people still bought them. For fans of Super Mario Brothers … Continue reading →

So much has been going on recently. I’m working hard on a couple of web projects that would be finished by now if it wasn’t for Microsoft IIS and Internet Explorer being ‘different’ to the standards. Time to catch up on some posting. First lets congratulate the Super Hammers for … Continue reading →

If you have 20 minutes spare then play the Name The Album game, from the Cool Blue Shed blog. You’re given an album cover and you have to guess the artist and album name from four options. I scored 70/100 which was higher than I thought I’d get. Let me … Continue reading →

I think there’s quite a bit of hypocracy when you have an American court using the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui to discuss the human and emotional cost of 9/11. George Bush will never have to go through a similar trial in Baghdad to listen to witnesses talk about the human … Continue reading →

I’ve always wished I could be better at logo design. I just tend to open Photoshop and play around with fonts to create anything these days. Luckily logo design is merging with technology more and more and the ability to create stunning designs on your PC is becoming easier. Maybe … Continue reading →

For the last 2 days I’ve been trying to get the wonderful php (which is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML) to talk to MySQL (the world’s most popular open source database) via IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services). … Continue reading →

The original Die Hard filmed in 1924 would you believe it! Sorry but YouTube and GoogleVideo links are de rigueur this month. Ben Griffin, former SAS trooper, explains why he was discharged from the army. “I didn’t join the British Army to conduct American foreign policy“ The Pocket Mod. A … Continue reading →