Archive for March, 2008

How about calling a spade a spade, eh, HMRC?

Rather shamefully for a web professional, January was the first time I used the online tax return provided by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. It’s great, a massive improvement on the pencil and eraser, abacus calculator and calculation sheet, of old.

Today I went back into the My Account area, to check that some payments had got through. Unfortunately this side of the process is not up to the same standard as the tax form, and after becoming confused for a while, I hit “help”… and got this in a pop up:

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DNS alternatives

DNS problems with Zen… can anyone recommend a decent alternative DNS server please? #

I am the Lindy Hop master

Just “mastered” the basic Lindy Hop moves. Had a *personal* commendation from the instructor. #

How am I supposed to type in t…

How am I supposed to type in that captcha when half of the text is rendered outside the image boundaries? #

I’m giving ExpanDrive a go

I’m giving ExpanDrive, “seamless SSH/sFTP drives”, a go, the hip kids think it’s good. http://tinyurl.com/24tnuv & http://tinyurl.com/3xjbyl #

Linux CLI command to ungzip and untar a file

Note to self, Linux CLI command to ungzip and untar a file is: tar -zxvf some/filename.tar.gz #

Just bought home insurance thr…

Just bought home insurance through QuidCo to get some self-affiliate payment love. (Apparently takes up to 3 months for payment though.) #

Don’t miss Dexter tonight. It’…

Don’t miss Dexter tonight. It’s an amazing series. #

IE8’s announcement that they w…

IE8’s announcement that they will now support standards by default feels right; but I wonder if Shaun had a point http://tinyurl.com/2gnhcy #

Spam often seems to start &quo…

Spam often seems to start "From the desk of…", is that kind of puffed up self importance supposed to impress me? You have a desk? Wow. #




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