1md.be is probably the best promotion of creativity that I’ve seen since Modernista. Very nice:)

Very useful article on Petri.co.il about redirecting the favorites folder using group policy. This came in handy for me as I needed to replace roaming profiles (too slow!) – so after some GPO folder redirection and the addition of a few login scripts I had a good alternative – except users wouldn’t be able to [...]

Welcome to my new layout. I have simplified my design, its inspired in part by http://www.fastcodesign.com/ and http://www.weblator.com/. I have moved all of my articles/tutorials etc to faq.ds32.com so I can keep this site purely as a blog.

Came across a vertually undetectable virus today that was randomly redirecting search results on google -for example, if you searched for “bt email” the number 1 result (btw website) would be redirected to an ask.com advertising page. I tryed all the usual stuff -an avg scan, a malware bytes scan and a thorough check with [...]

Nyone know what was on this blog? It’s in the top 100 sites in the world (alexa) but when you try and visit the blog, it seems as though it doesn’t exist…?

Had an issue today with Windows Media Center where ehrec.exe was using nearly 100% CPU shortly after the PC had started up. In addition to this, after the desktop appeared, there was a 2-3 minute gap before any applications could be used – for example if you ran internet explorer, it would not open for [...]

Why does Word press attract so much spam?

Have been struggling with this all day today so just thought Id make a note of some useful information I found out. I’ll assume that people know how to connect local printers when using remote desktop (IE ticking the box that says “printers” in the remote desktop options). However, you may have noticed that it [...]

sampsonmay.com – Came across this site today, it belongs to a London based design consultancy – I love the simple layout! Very effective.

Lesson of the day: ALWAYS test and double test structural changes to a website – our best advertising space on Shareworld (top of page above menu and below logo) has been performing exceptionally bad for the last month – about 0.1%ctr – today we found out why: a link had pushed the adverts behind the [...]

Don’t think I’m going to renew my subscription to .NET Mag next time around – I know they’re probably very busy and I’m inconsequential, but they have NEVER answered any email I’ve sent them – I don’t think thats too great:(

Posted on Experts-Exchange – 17th August 2010, awaiting response!! Can someone explain a few things about spam prevention, blacklists and exchange RBLs… Basically, as I understood it, if you are running an exchange server then it is of primary importance that you keep your public IP(s) off of blacklists – otherwise when your sending email [...]

Google Caffeine has been live for some time now. Google made a big thing of their new index saying it would provide 50% fresher results, and also that it would index the internet in a more efficient way, and at a much faster rate. They weren’t joking! I tried a little experiment this morning to [...]

Took me ages to find out how to turn off predictive text on the iphone, so I thought Id post it here: Settings>General>keyboard> Auto-correction=off.

Can’t beleive it -twitters down this evening ! Apparently they Have engineers working on the problem as we speak – would love to see twitters servers and how they go about trouble shooting and fixing a problem with the service!!

Shareworld has had more visitors today than it has in the last 30 days. After our server was attacked by a Trojan last month – which was attacking other servers in the data centre – we had to completely rebuild it, this resulted in several days downtime and over a week of disruption. Although we [...]

I use htaccess regularly to redirect old urls to new and for removing pages that don’t exist etc. So much so that the htaccess file for Shareworld had grown to over 100kb! Part of this size was due to a past re-design where almost all of our pages had to be redirected. I was once [...]