A man takes his hamster to the vet…

A man takes his hamster to the vet, and after a short look at the creature the vet pronounces it dead. Not happy with the vet’s diagnosis the man asks for a second opinion. The vet gives a whistle and in strolls a Labrador dog. The dog nudges the hamster around with its nose and […]

Joke: More bread – Man goes into a diner every day for lunch…

A man from the Old Country went to a diner every day for lunch. He always ordered the soup of the day. One day the manager asked him how he liked his meal. The old man replied, “It was good, but you could give a little more bread.” So the next day the manager told […]

How to solve your iPod Touch battery problems with iOS 4

Like many people I upgraded my iPod Touch to iOS4… In general it works well and the new folders feature is brilliant… I am not so keen on the multitasking and that isn’t Apple’s fault, I have an Android phone and I don’t like the multitasking on that either… The most used apps on my […]

V1.1 of Sunday Worship Released – Adds PowerPoint Support

We are very pleased to announce the release of  version 1.1 of SundayWorship. This release adds two major features to SundayWorship.    * Support for running Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from SundayWorship    * The ability to import songs from EasiSlides. You can download the latest version from here.

Started working on a multi-node ESMTP server written on Go.

I have started working on an idea I had for a multi-node (cluster aware) ESMTP server. I have decided to write it using Google’s Go language (for reasons which aren’t absolutely clear at the moment). Designed from the ground up to work as a cluster, each node keeps an index of the available messages by […]

My comments about a recent Live Hacking CD vs. Backtrack 4 review

McGrew Security have published a review comparing the Live Hackign CD with Backtrak4: http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/2010/05/10/live-hacking-cd-vs-backtrack-4/#comm… . Although the review is generally well balanced, I want to add a few comments: 1) Competition is good for everyone, the LHCD has only just come out of beta and is relatively young, where as BT has been around much […]

Book Review: The Design of Design by Fred Brooks (the father of System/360)

Fred Brooks the author of the legendary The Mythical Man-Month book has just released a new book The Design of Design. I’ve managed to get my hands on a review copy and here is what I thought about it: http://www.gaj-it.com/17304/from-music-to-gadget-are-the-principles-of-design…