This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
Looking back on this blog a recurring theme has been email spam and my attempts to clear my inbox of this plague.
This blog uses built in WordPress tools to ensure that I don’t see any spam posted in the comments but keeping control of my mail client’s filters isn’t quite so easy – I should [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight, Scams, Software, Spam, Techie
This last Tuesday, Microsoft released a bunch of patches and updates for Windows. Normally, I recommend everyone should update but on this occassion I don’t!
Why? Well take a look here, the list of people with problems after this update is growing by the hour and they are having serious problems. My own machine(s) updated themselves [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Software, Techie
Just trying out the iPhone WordPress app. It’s a bit odd not having a full screen view available but other than that, it all seems easy enough.
I presume I can add photos somehow but I’ll leave that for another day!
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Filed under: Hardware, Software, Techie
Well the hype is over and the web is alive with reviews, “hands-ons” and more about Apple’s latest release, the iPad.
Yes, I like Apple products and yes, I did follow the bloggers covering today’s event; but I have a small problem before parting with my hard earned cash. Why? well take a look at the [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Hardware, Isle of Wight, Techie
Here they go again…..
My BT broadband speed seems to have settled at 2,720Mb/s over the last few days. It seems that BT are playing games again….
When I phoned them today to ask what was going on they promptly offered to reduce my monthly payments…. took me almost 2 seconds to accept!
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Hosting, Isle of Wight, Techie
Checked the BT HomeHub again today and now find it’s reading 4,320 Kbps!
Somebody at OpenReach is fiddling with things again…
UPDATE: Mmm… I spoke too soon, today Wed 06/01/2010 it’s back to 3,776 Kbps….. ;(
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Isle of Wight, Techie
Anyone who’s been following me moaning on about the lack of Remote Desktop hosting in the Home Premium versions of Vista and Windows 7 will be pleased to know that those very clever folk over at The Green Button seem to have cracked the problem.
Take a look at this post, the discussion there is a [...]
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Filed under: Software, Techie
For ages now I’ve had a BT broadband speed (recorded by the BT Home Hub) of 3,200Kbps. This has been disputed by the SamKnows speed trial but it’s near enough. Anyhow, for the past few days the Home Hub has been showing 3,800Kbps.
I have no idea what BT have done to get the improvement, they haven’t [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Isle of Wight, Techie
Just installed the latest upgrade for Wordpress…
All looks OK for the moment… but then of course it always does.
Fingers crossed.
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Filed under: Hosting, Software, Techie
The single thing which causes most problems for the WordPress users I know is uploading and positioning images in their posts. Hopefully I have found a solution which will make things quite a bit easier – it’s called “Freebie Images” and is a WP plugin – you can get it here.
I just installed it and [...]
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Filed under: Cars, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Photography, Software, Techie
