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Dell Customer Service
I’ve been looking at potentially buying a Dell Inspiron Mini 9. It’s currently retailing at £279. As I’m sure you’re aware, the “Nettop” market is pretty crowded with everyome bringing out their own version. They generally tend to range between £200 – £300 with those with bigger screens, batteries and hard drives on the higher…
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O2 Broadband – I'm online!
Today was the today my broadband was changed from the excellent, but expensive, Zen to the incredibly cheap O2. And so far, it’s worked like a dream. As I mentioned previously, they supply their own router but I intended to use my own. As soon as I was swapped over (and they emailed and texted…
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And the feeds are back!
FeedBurner is no more (to be perfectly honest, it was being just a touch flaky since Google took over. Not only that but it kept complaining that my feeds were too big). Long live raw, in the flesh, naked feeds. In other words, if you previously subscribed via FeedBurner, please re-subscribe. I promise to make…
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Ninety-Freakin'-One Percent!
That’s my YSlow rating for the BMTG website. It’s taken me a year but I’ve done it. The only thing missing – that elusive 9% – is a CDN. But I’m not going to have that so I now have the highest rating I can achieve. Once this site is at its new host, I’ll…
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Running Kubuntu under VirtualBox
I’ve written a number of times on this topic, but thought I’d bring it all up to date and draw all the various, disparate posts together. I use Kubuntu, not as my main OS, but for web development testing, which means I need a broad cross-section of Linux browsers. Therefore I run Kubuntu for it’s…