Ever since I found out about Dropbox it pretty much replaced my USB pen drives, and freed me from my desktop as I could work from any PC without having to transfer files, pretty soon I had copied the sourcecode of my main websites to it so I could make updates and amendments when ever [...]
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As a multiple private computer user, I flick between desktop, laptop and tablet at home and my works pc, I never know which one I’ll be at when the need to know how much money is in my bank but with internet banking that shouldn’t matter.. right?. With the introduction of the large card reader [...]
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When planning to go on holiday earlier this year I didn’t want to go without some sort of computer and unhappy with the resistive touch screen of my two year old 7″ apad, it was the right excuse for an upgrade. Without £350 or any desire for an iPad I opted to get an Archos [...]
Read more →While trying to find a way to emphasise a important topic on a forum I own, I came to the conclusion that the best way to achieve high exposure, but not annoy folk, was to put a little ribbon at the bottom right of the browser window. While in itself this is not a complicated [...]
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The day started overcast but it looked like the rain would hold off, at about 11am the sun came out so we headed to the port again to buy gifts for the folk back home, as it was the last day we put the 20dt we would need for drinks later that night [...]
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The day started wet, so we lazed about for most of the morning, as the rain let up we took the opportunity to go shopping, before we reached the first shop the rain started again, but it was still warm and you can only get so wet so we ignored it and continued our shopping. [...]
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We awoke to the sound of thunder, opening the curtains confirmed we were in the middle of a tropical storm, so we set the alarm for half 8 and went back to bed. We got up we went down for breakfast to find it closed, confused we went back to our room to realise we [...]
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The day started early with a quick breakfast and on the coach for 7:50, we were on our way, via lots of other hotels, to El Djem a Roman Amphitheatre. The coach was nicer than the day before with more legroom, which was good since after we travelled via every other hotel and it [...]
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Our first excursion, the Medina ramble started at 9am with a bus trip via a number of other hotels to the Sousse Medina, we first visited a fixed price 3 tier store to see what things cost and then went round a traditional fish, fruit and vegetable market where the smells and colours were [...]
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Started the day with breakfast, which was less problematic due to knowing where the plates were, then off to see Tina our holiday rep who offered us a bunch of excursions for purchase, although I would have probably loved it the 2 day sahara desert trip was not only out of our price bracket, [...]
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We arrived at Enfida airport at about mid day, where we had to find a guy with pieces of paper for us to fill in before we could go through security. Security was manned by people who didn’t seem to care, one bag scanner on the phone, the other had brought her young children to [...]
Read more →I recently redeveloped a large, well established, website and rather than using a lot of .htacces rules to redirect old pages, I wrote a php script to do the redirection. As there was 1000′s of unstructured end pages in the original static site and about 5 in the new, if the system fails completely to [...]
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