I often wondered how sites detected the number of users online. After some digging I’ll admit to be no closer to the answer. The problem is that once a page is delivered to someone you have no idea what they’re doing unless, and if, they then do something – go to another page of yours,…

Google have announced a new feature in their Webmaster Tools. In a nutshell it will display all pages that link to a missing page on your site – you have a chance to fix it or take advantage of it. So, if a site was linking to an erroneously spelt page then you could create…

Some time ago, probably a few years now, the company I worked for removed individual bins from under their desk and replaced them with recycling points dotted around the office. These consist of a series of bins where items can be separated – different bins for different areas, but usually, at least, a general bin…

Remember me saying how things seem to keep going wrong at the moment (of the “it’s going to cost me money” sense)? Well, today is another such day. I get to work to get a very early phone call from my wife. The shower’s not working. The light on the pull switch is on but…

If you didn’t know already, I work in IT support. I started off, briefly, in my career performing mainframe development. However, being a creative sort, I soon got tired of programming dull batch applications, all of which were similar to the last. The one highlight was learning about DB2 and being sent on various advanced…