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Surprisingly few people have heard about Umbraco, despite it running some very well-known websites, including Microsoft’s ASP.Net site – now that’s got to be a great endorsement!

… just got to wait that little bit longer

Ever wondered what’s inside the metal box that stores all your stuff? If you’re a computer enthusiast you’ve probably seen it many times over, but since I’ve today had the chance to open a 10K SCSI disk up to destroy it’s insides, I took the opportunity to take some photos. Be warned: you should never [...]

As part of the Whole-House-Audio system I’m building I’ve been forced to install Windows on one of the thin-clients (more details soon). I started off with Windows 98, but found that it doesn’t support USB optical drives – the thin PC doesn’t have any removable media drives – then tried Windows 2000. Everything started off [...]

Here’s a few photos of the snow that fell this morning.

It would seem that my guesses were more or less correct – the largest earthquake in the UK for 25 years. Apparently most of the country felt it, so I think everyone knows how unnerving it feels! The BBC has an initial story on it here. The BGS site, which is responding a little better [...]

At about 00:56 this morning, roughly 20 mins ago, I was awoken by some fairly vigorous shaking – a very unnerving experience. I’ve knowingly experienced one earthquake in the UK before, also at home, where I could hear a low level rumbling followed by noticeable shaking and land movement. This time round I was a [...]

A few weeks ago I entered the Homebrew Challenge on ZDNet.co.uk. The competition was centred around technical projects that people have done in their spare time, so I submitted my projects. The prize was a £20,000 Toyota Prius (a petrol-electric hybrid) courtesy of Intel. This competition was really the spark behind my push to get [...]

Happy Christmas everyone! There will be a flurry of posts soon, which have built up over several weeks of being too busy. They will include some fantastic news.

I’ve given up trying to make my own design. Outside of work I just can’t motivate myself to produce websites (with a few exceptions). So I’ve gone with a ready-made WordPress theme which I think looks pretty cool. Anyway, hello world, and welcome to my site!