Category Archives: Blog
How to bring down a poorly deployed WordPress (and how to stop it from happening)
I used to hate WordPress (and Apache). When x5315 and I first got a cheap VPS from XenEurope (I recommend them, but don’t be as stingy as us!) it had 128MB of RAM. We both wanted WordPress blogs. Thus what … Continue reading
They Need To Be Fed Review
They Need To Be Fed is a new iPhone (and iPad) game from YoYo Games. You play as a little…black monster thing…and your objective is to navigate through each level collecting diamonds to ultimately be…eaten by a big black monster … Continue reading
TweetDeck launches deck.ly, competes with Twitlonger
TweetDeck has launched deck.ly, a new service heavily integrated into TweetDeck for desktop, Android and Chrome (iPhone and iPad support coming soon) allows you to tweet messages longer than 140 characters. If your tweet is longer than 140 characters, a … Continue reading
Back to WordPress?!
I’ve migrated back from Jekyll to WordPress. Last time I tried it, I was on a really memory constrained VPS, but not only has WordPress got better at handling memory, but I’m also hosting it differently: This site is an experiment in … Continue reading
Making the most of DuckDuckGo
Yesterday I changed my default search engine in Google Chrome from Google to DuckDuckGo, known for not collecting personal information and Zero-click info (not my example!). I’ve noted down a few points for getting the most out of this interesting … Continue reading
London Midland on Password lengths
A few weeks ago I wrote to London Midland, a rail company in England, on why when signing up for an account on their website, your password must be between 6 and 8 characters long. Today I got a reply: … Continue reading
AeroFS First Impressions
AeroFS is invite-only software that promises ‘File sync without servers’. That is, it is Dropbox without the Dropbox servers. Using peer-to-peer technology and end-to-end encryption, AeroFS allows you to sync files between your computers without the need of any third … Continue reading
Relocating Windows to a new Hard Drive
Moving NTFS filesystems to different (sometimes larger) hard drive can be a nightmare. I’ve had one such nightmare recently and I thought it’d be worthwhile to document it here for others having similar problems. The below points are based on … Continue reading
Tweetdeck, Echofon to get User Streams betas
Twitter have announced that Tweetdeck and Echofon are going to be the first mainstream desktop apps to release beta versions of their software that use the new Twitter User Streams. Twitter User Streams are streams unique to each user on … Continue reading
RSSfall 2.0
A couple of days ago I received an email from Julien Genestoux from Superfeedr saying they were about to release something cool, and would I be interested in cooking something fun up to demo it. I said I would, and … Continue reading