Much of my day-to-day involves putting together solutions that do a bit of data extraction, transformation and loading somewhere else (That’s the ETL bit). So that’s the transactional bit, at then end of the production line, once we’ve speont all this time, money and effort loading and validating this info you then need to quantify [...]
This post from well known and respected UK ISP Zen has to set alarm bells ringing ! Hot on the heels of the news that the UK’s BT Home Hub is borked comes the news that the chipset used globally by a third of all ADSL router integrators ’causes intermittancy’ Yikes…this could run and run [...]
Following some serious problems with my preferred wordpress template for the site…I’ve had to resort to the default implementation until I can get to the bottom of what was wrong. It’s ugly I know but bear with me !
Occasionally I laugh out loud at the Despair.com posters…more often than not the raise a wry and slightly cynical smile. However this one’s just a peach.
You’re not Hemingway…get over it.
XPost from here I’ve long been a DRM hater – I don’t own an iPod because I want to listen to my music in the format I choose, not what apple wants me to. The media furore over this American woman’s pitiful defense about the use of Kazaa is becoming a feeding-frenzy and I don’t [...]
I love the idea for this – a mobo specific hardware embedded Virtual machine that boots first on startup giving you hardware access to your internet connection without the drag of having to wait for WIndoze to shake itself and roll out of bed. ! Love it…just hope it’s something they can extract out of [...]
Surprise surprise…people in the UK still aren’t getting what they thought they would when ordering Broadband. I do sympathise with the ISP’s to some degree here…they’re selling a 2nd rate product over a third-world POTS copper network which in much of the UK predates WWII. Technology being used in the BT backhaul is ‘just’ keeping [...]
Nice to see that wi-fi is being treated as a service rather than a commodity or opportunity by some to add an additional revenue stream ! However I have so say I’ve my doubts that your average McDonalds client is the sort to whip out their lappie after ordering their Big Mac, (go Large sir [...]
I shouldn’t really be surprised, half the Pumas play their rugby in the heartland of the French game but why can’t we get past these guys. And why the hell when Hadden claims we’ve ‘tried and practised a number of ways of playing the game’ did we pick that crappy high ball affair which was [...]