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Complaining to Virgin Media

Posted by Glen on January 18, 2012. No comments.

Yesterday, the 17th January 2012, Virgin Media broadband customers experienced partial or total loss of connectivity throughout the afternoon and evening. As one of those customers affected by the outage, I am making a formal complaint to the company. As I work from home and require internet connectivity at all times, this outage had a [...]

Synchronise your iPhone with Yahoo! Calendar

Posted by Glen on June 19, 2009. No comments.

Since the iPhone OS 3 update, you can now use the CalDAV protocol to automatically keep your Yahoo! Calendar updated on your iPhone: Can I sync with my iPhone over the air?

Spammer Named and Shamed!

Posted by Glen on January 13, 2009. One comment.

When I sign up for new websites and services, I don’t want to give away my primary e-mail address so I typically set up a disposable address through SpamGourmet or AddressGuard. My thinking is that if a website then decides to spam me, I can just throw away the address and everything is hunky dory. [...]

links for 2008-10-30

Posted by Glen on October 30, 2008. No comments.

Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP Useful article showing both good and bad PHP OO practices. (tags: programming development php web tips tricks)

Are you getting paid enough?

Posted by Glen on October 13, 2008. No comments.

Ever wondered what other people doing your job are getting paid? A new site called upyourkick.com has launched allowing you to see just that. Check it out: upyourkick.com

eBay has HOW many employees?!

Posted by Glen on October 8, 2008. No comments.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the news that eBay is reducing its workforce by 10% is that it had 10,000 employees before the cuts. How many people does it take to run an auction website?

Flickr for iPhone

Posted by Glen on October 2, 2008. No comments.

Flickr for iPhone Originally uploaded by hey mr glen Very nice iPhone specific version of Flickr m.flickr.com

Monks get broadband

Posted by Glen on July 31, 2008. No comments.

Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the Brothers was being tested by our slow internet BBC NEWS | Wales | Broadband boost for island monks

Fire Eagle beta invite anyone?

Posted by Glen on June 13, 2008. One comment.

I have one invite to the Fire Eagle beta to give away. Just leave a comment if you are interested. What is Fire Eagle? From the site: Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online. Fire Eagle

Avoiding a search monopoly

Posted by Glen on May 25, 2008. No comments.

Intelligent post from Michael Arrington on the importance of choice within the search engine world, and what can still be achieved in this area: There are so many areas on search that remain to be conquered. Semantic search. Real language/AI search. The deep web. Media search. Today search basically returns web documents. What I want [...]