Virgin Media junk mail-o-meter

So last year I had a bit of a rant at @virginmedia, the reason for this was the ridiculous amount of junk mail that Virgin were sending us, so I decided I was going to keep all the mail they sent me for the next 12 months. Here we are 12 months later and I have a draw...

I accidentally a Hack Space

Back in October 2014 I game a talk at Barcamp Manchester  about how I had accidentally made a hack space, it was a little tongue in cheek at it wasn't so much a physical space as a group of people who wanted a space to happen. This year there will be a follow up. It...

A special offer for Neil Kavanaugh

A follow up to Whats in a name So I decided to let Neil know my plan; Hello Neil, Good news – The domain NeilKavanaugh.com is now available and I’m giving you first refusal! Don't miss out on getting the name you want! Sometime ago I enquired about the domain...

[comedy font]Important News[/comedy font]

As the BBC report: The most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. But why oh why did the brightest *PEOPLE on the planet decide to use the worlds...

What’s in a name?

Being someone who has grown up with the internet I have always played around with having my own website. It has gone through several changes of domain up to the most recent wearekuiper.com. Now there are a couple of things I don't like about this domain, it goes...

Switch it off and back on again

Sometime I feel like a magician, there is no other way to explain it. Today I had to drive a 120 mile round trip to reboot a switch that had crashed that had apparently already been rebooted to no effect, yet amazingly when I rebooted it everything started working...

This one almost had me…

I was wondering if you ever considered changing the page layout of your site? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only...

Contacting Technical Support

A few simple rules to get the most out of a technical support operator. 1. Do not start with an accusation. When asking technical support for help, do not start with an accusation, simply state what your problem is, starting by asking if I am doing something with...