The light in the middle of the tunnel
I finished moving house on Thursday. When I say I finished moving, I have now moved everything in to my new place. It isn’t sorted yet, a lot of stuff is still in boxes, I don’t have a bed or a sofa...
View ArticleIn the eyes of the innocent
I love Richard Dawkins. But sometimes I think he is a bit too nieve. Take for example the recent goings on on the RD.net Forum. A few weeks ago they announced that the forum was going to be replaced by...
View ArticleOpal, Pipex and their band of wacky characters
We got in this morning to find that one of the server’s external connections was down. Upon further investigation I found that the internet was in fact working fine, we just had a different IP address...
View ArticleThe magic of Twitter
At around 4pm this afternoon, dozens of people, some wearing St George’s Crosses came running past my window, followed by a few dozen police officers and half a dozen police vans. There are still seven...
View ArticleGeorge Shore isn’t important
Recently, my good friend George, decided to part ways with his then girlfriend. Sad times. Unfortunately, when it became time to make it official, by severing the relationship on Facebook, the status...
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Social Media: For Good or Ill
This month at the Humanist Society of West Yorkshire, Simon Duncan presented a talk on social media – what it is and whether it is a good thing or not. Of course, the answer is yes. Social media brings...
View ArticleO2 internet censorship
Last night, I tried to access a website using the 3G internet on my phone. I couldn’t. Why? Turns out O2 now censor their internet traffic. Instead of presenting me with a web page, I was re-directed...
View ArticleMy kingdom for an internet connection
It’s been over four months since we moved into our new apartment and we still don’t have our own internet connection. Having originally placed our order with o2, they failed to turn up to install the...
View Article4G
Being without a proper internet connection I needed to go mobile for a while. I went to O2 and bought a dongle, but it didn’t work, as they never really do. I don’t know if it is the dongle, O2 or a...
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Fibre
After years of waiting, after every single tiny village around Leeds getting fibre, the city centre finally has fibre! What a glorious time we live in. Top marks to BT Openreach, they turned up when...
View ArticleSpeeding up Leeds Restaurant Guide
Leeds Restaurant Guide is incredibly detailed covering so many restaurants with high quality content and imagery. So it seemed only fitting that I should pay as much attention to the presentation as I...
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships is a book by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam looking at sexuality. This has been a subject that has traditionally been difficult...
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