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- Virgin Media email outage
- why West Ham and Millwall kicked off
- more questions than answers
- poor mans Italian coffee shop
- celebrities on Twitter
- wheres your Google Shared Items ?
- Noel Gallagher on Citeh
- strategies for making friends on social networks
- the resurrection of Google Reader
- forbidden fruits
- why Rugby Union is a complete joke
- evolution
- full circle
- holiday highlights
- PubSubHubbub - faster than the speed of sound
- couple of HD channels for Virgin Media
- great balls of fire
- what you see is what you get
- product minimalism
- fear and loathing in Broome
- the other side of Aboriginal culture
- Aboriginal culture
- the wit and wisdom of Darren Bent
- Why JS-Kit and Echo is doomed
- mystery man
- Saint Michael of Chester
- History professors
- tips for dealing with Australian customs
- death of a disco dancer
- dumb, captive animals at Australia zoo
- the month that never was
- holiday statistics
- where will it all end ?
- Manchester Citys title winning lineup
June
May
April
March
February
January
2008
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
- so farewell then, Sven Goran Eriksson
- a brief history of inane drivel
- barstool correspondent
- intelligent automatic follow/block script for Twitter
- Unified Blogging Day
- The Story of The Who
- the thorny issue of blog comment ownership
- a lesson in software design
- 25 reasons you should use Disqus
- a short conversation with Les Battersby
- M40 memorial
- BA launches bid for prestigious marketing campaign award
- resurrection of Disqus comments
March
February
January
- Blue balloon
- Joomla, Twitter, Drupal and ftp
- London Heathrow incident
- Drupal 6 RC2 near miss
- Adsense milestone
- whats the blogging frequency ?
- jet lagged
- Cheer up Kevin Keegan
- open letter to Howard Rogers
- readers of Oracle blog aggregators unite (and take over)
- just grow up
- Oracle TagFest - the last word
- something about nothing
- 8 things
- Ing-er-land
- blog housekeeping
- idiots guide to Oracle installation
- Barton watch
- Stalag Facebook
2007
December
November
October
- Disqus powered comments
- Gerry and Kate McCann - an apology
- worlds first blogger dies
- WordPress 2.3.1 released
- just the job
- Rowche Rumble
- just do what you are told
- dead body under my floorboards
- a very British death
- how to migrate a WordPress blog to Django
- Arsenal v Sunderland
- review of Control
- charitable works
- upside down season
September
- FAC51
- last django in London
- WordPress 2.3 and Typo
- a rush of blood
- life and times of two A listers
- analyzing cdos
- optimizing airports
- syncing Thunderbird with Google calendar
- inevitable parting of the ways
- fun and games in Rotterdam
- back to school
- fear and trepidation
- people are strange
- how a digital camcorder drove me to suicide
- Adsense case study for a personal blog
- the real star of Saxondale
August
July
- how to create perfect tables in WordPress
- how fast is Google Blog search ?
- non-stop erotic cabaret
- Kettle Chips rant
- helping people write things down
- Facebook penetration of corporate America
- Hook Norton Festival of Fine Ales - 2007
- plans for the weekend
- Artificial Intelligence
- membership form for BAAG
- Facebook versus LinkedIn
- Planet Earth by Prince
- Stadium Rock etiquette
- surreal taxi ride
- here we go
- damned with faint praise
- out with the old, in with the new
- a doctor writes
- Manchester City announce two new signings
- beat the bookie with Brightside
- SEO wars Google versus Yahoo!
- raw deal for UK smokers
- practical parenting
- under the covers at Wimbledon
June
- my alter ego
- go faster stripes
- my worst nightmare
- Google finally sees sense
- my worst nightmare
- Movable Type 4 (beta)
- The Who at Glastonbury
- quiet, loud and very loud
- Theatre of Comedy
- the King is dead, long live the King
- weekend roundup
- Welcome to England
- ode to Tom
- Adsense update
- review of the Virgin Media V+ box
- pictures of a Virgin Media V+ box
- Safari browser available for Windows
- Surbiton Trophy
- June spawned a monster
- recycle pool
- fun with the Siebel data model
- a polite notice
May
- Google Reader goes offline
- pass the anti-static wrist strap
- blog milestone
- the looming spectre of Google
- sit back and watch the money roll in
- blogging trends
- the tragic case of Madeleine McCann
- Welcome to WordPress 2.2
- the most important decision of my life
- Manchester City announce new manager
- Darwin Awards nominee
- moving house
- dont Ask
- Praise be to the Lord !
- a triumph for slothful indolence and lethargy
- MUFC - Champions
- Top 10 Keywords
- open letter to Paul Scholes
- in memoriam
- spice up your life
- a day in the life
April
March
- resurrection of Performancing Metrics
- Yahoo! Mail versus Gmail
- the sole responsibility of a production Oracle DBA
- Vista installation complete
- Virgin Media V-- downgrade
- Virgin Media V+ upgrade
- YouTube - what is it good for ?
- National Anthem
- career opportunities
- complete, utter, 100%, unmitigated failure
- in praise of Joy Division
- plans for the weekend, Sir ?
- two more mysteries solved
- dont believe the truth
- resisting the lure of Twitter
- sneak peek at Vista
- free upgrades from Virgin Media
- Sharpcast versus Picasa
- Picasa Web Albums upgraded to 1GB
- incest is best
- rapid fire service from Dell
- in praise of Google Desktop
- rolling upgrade
- Top Of The (Oracle) Blogs
- lost without Lost
February
- not dead, just resting
- UK broadsheets narrow view of syndication
- dangerous danger sign
- out of office
- feed overload
- how to display Google shared items on WordPress
- the art of lazy programming
- conspiracy theories
- am I a Google whore yet ?
- resisting the lure of Google Reader
- fighting email spam on Blueyonder
- undercover with Surrey Traffic Police
- Web 2.0 - am I infected ?
- YCNMIU
- the unbearable coolness of VOIP
- great fun with Iris
- Here we go
- the art of lazy consultancy
- questions and answers
- a night of outrageous flirting in Copenhagen
- job vacancy
- porting Drupal to Oracle and DB2
- dugg, slashdotted and tailranked
- bedroom antics with the wife
January
- corporate jealousy
- Snap made me finally snap
- Copenhagen bound
- WTF
- I am a Virgin (again)
- automated MySQL backups
- death by PowerPoint
- aim for the stars
- how to rotate taglines on your WordPress blog
- music for homesick people
- Wayne Rooney - an apology
- another shattered dream
- fun with Habari
- lost in transit
- fun with disaster recovery
- Friend of a friend
- my proudest moment
- guitar hero
- Americas answer to Jade Goody
- example of Zoho sheet
- computer says No
- thin line between truth and humour
- Bill Gates reads my blog shock !
- mean hearted bombers
- two one-way tickets to Dublin, please
- whats new in Siebel 8.0
- Rene Carayols clever approach to taxation
- can Gerry Robinson fix IT ?
- thats entertainment
- traffic report
- Google Reader adds stats on RSS habits
- who wants to be an Adsense millionaire ?
- philosophy of Oracle contractors
- make your mind up
- 2006 roundup
- death of a tyrant
2006
December
- Xmas surprise
- probably the best feature in Oracle 10g
- new homework excuse
- playing mind games with Mourinho
- power dressing in reverse
- things that go bump in the night
- Scottish women rejoice
- UK tabloid Daily Express files for bankruptcy
- in praise of CBO
- reverse engineering
- BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
- rebranding Nottingham airport
- British toilet humour
- disk storage is cheap
- suggestions for Metalink
- eat your own dog food
- forever in debt to your priceless advice
- Dads Army
- recycle pool
- murky depths of the recycle pool
November
- testing debut at book club
- Baywatch in Birmingham
- from beyond the grave
- dose of your own medicine
- YCNMIU
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- How to get dugg, increase readership and earn lots of money
- do not disturb
- comment abuse
- YATT
- night out in London
- flowery twats
- Bluehost upgrade to WordPress 2.0.5
- rising from the ashes
- 361 days to go
- hamsters, headhunters, hampers and false religion
- plugin extravaganza
- a brush with social services
- 20 years ago
- interview with Mark Burgess
- Trick or treat
- trumpet blowing
October
- software upgrades
- the only search engine in town
- out of the office
- suffer little children
- things that surprise you
- celebrity watch
- custom Oracle search engine
- new dawn fades
- a picture
- the never ending quest for the truth
- on the third stroke
- be careful out there
- Arsene Wenger is a teapot
- cementing my place in blog history
- my new job
- couple of useful Wordpress plugins
- success with Firefox 2.0 RC3
- laughter is the best medicine
- an unusual load average
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- a thing of rare beauty
- browser upgrades
- WordPress.com features
- improving on perfection
- Drupal supports Oracle database
- celebrity watch
- Here we go
- is it really worth it ?
- Google Blog Search adds ping
- free 20GB memory stick
- Manchester City in Cup Final shock !
- Checkpoint Charlie
- 30 years and counting
- initial impressions of Dreamhost
- full feed readers of the world unite and take over
- stood up by Iris
- from the mouths of babes
- blog editors
September
- from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
- The End
- Google Reader gets revamp
- the fickle hand of fate
- full feeds are the work of the devil
- The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith
- Google Notebook
- drowning in a river of news
- fast and dangerous
- Googles approach to software development
- staggering incompetence
- nice day at the office, dear ?
- Dragons Den
- sync, sync, sync
- hello, hello, hello
- Mozy - remote backup
- Google versus Microsoft
- John Peel and The Chameleons
- early adopters or Luddites ?
- packet sniffer
- the urbanisation of Richmond Park
- editting Flickr photos
- The Killers
- writing style
- Margrave of the Marshes
- unfiltered and featured
- 30 second guide to tuning Siebel
- so farewell then
- a short history of digital photography
- Paula Radcliffe
- my head hurts
- Red lorry, yellow lorry
August
- Your papers, please !
- upmarket buskers
- spammers plumb new depths
- TechCrunch (UK) launches
- comeback kid
- YCNMIU
- Cockneys R Us
- in praise of Tom Reynolds
- blog anniversary
- holiday highlights
- wheres your blogroll ?
- least popular blogging platforms
- Metro on UK blogging
- the state of the UK blogosphere
- AOL search data released
- WordPress theme competition
- Hotel Inspector
- minimalism begins in Nepal
- am I a technology Luddite ?
- word of caution
- Broadband for the masses
- Guilty Pleasures
- Saxondale
July
- in utero
- knowledge management is hard
- wheels on fire
- Hook Norton
- rare occurrence
- Fergusons mind games
- so farewell then, NIS
- George Bush covers Sunday Bloody Sunday
- P45 for British blogger
- smoke and mirrors
- whats in a name ?
- T-shirt humour
- Music nostalgia
- out of sight
- The Smiths nostalgia
- is it just me ?
- YCNMIU
- spot the hyperlink
- football nostalgia
- 30 second guide to CRM
- American with sense of humour shocker
- 30 second guide to data warehousing
- Speech Day
- British media
- Lost - computer mystery solved
- why England will win the next World Cup
- Lost - life mirrors fiction
- Discovery launch
- breaking through
- just do what you are told
- just do what you are told
- Wayne Rooneys World Cup diary
- Forza Italia !
- ifs, buts and maybes
- psychic powers
- well played, Owen Hargreaves
- the wit and wisdom of Sven Goran Eriksson
- Nanny state
- WorldCup fallout
- latent tendencies
- dont cry for me, Argentina
June
- Kurt Cobain
- Rule is dead, long live Rule
- Taxi for Poll
- nearly man
- nearly men
- 38th fastest growing WP blog
- probably the most underrated band ever
- the crucifixion of Wayne Rooney
- the curious case of the missing About page
- Fathers Day
- born of frustration
- I dont believe it
- CRM by stealth
- probably the best pub team in the world
- the imminent death of newspapers
- Michael Essien
- different perspective
- so farewell then, Roy Keane
- dont mention the war
- World Cup dispatches from embedded reporter
- helping people read books
- WordPress import/export
- screaming babies
- inverse law of airports
- worry ye not
- 7 habits of highly ineffectual bloggers
- Blogger down
- Recently I Gave Birth To A Blog
- blankety blank - World Cup Special
- dont talk to strangers
- Google Browser Sync
- Fame at last
- Blogger does something shock
- Google Spreadsheets
- history of Oracle
- novel homework excuse
- stop it, stop it, stop it
- half time scoreboard
- rotation policy
- just say no
- blind date
- I should know better
- probably the best World Cup chart
May
- cartoon network
- mascot mismatch
- MUFC > England
- MUFC > England
- brown is the new black
- partial versus full fe…
- state of the database nation
- Matt Mullenweg on scalability
- good vibes from Netvibes
- Da Vinci Code review
- New York nostalgia
- watching you watching me
- in praise of Emacs
- missed opportunity
- MUFC announce Ruuds replacement
- Priceless
- identity crisis
- if, buts and maybes
- bingo night
- rank my tail
- Champions League bingo
- a big surprise
- heart and soul
- in flight statistics
- bits and large pieces
- standing at the urinals
- dead pop stars
- LWTUA
- World Cup prediction time
- further afield
- SonicStage 3.4 released
- a truly horrible image
- Plagiarism
- BA online check-in
April
- Imitation
- Trading Places
- Office 2.0 - ThinkFree
- Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
- sports bars of Europe
- ZohoWriter
- state of the blogosphere
- lies, damned lies and statistics
- HTML > blog
- 1GB memory stick
- book club
- too good to be true ?
- birth of a photo blog
- perspective
- in flight humour
- changes at WordPress
- more wireless fun
- wireless upgrade
- flying visit
- annual review
- The Killers on the move
- free as in FreePhone
- VMware beware
- axe murderer
- rude awakening
- David Beckham and I
- blankety blank competition
- the innocence of youth
- Hello EMI, Goodbye A&M
March
- could do better
- from zero to hero and back again
- chaos on the streets on Newcastle
- critical mass
- YCNMIU
- all coming together
- quotations
- passion(less)
- food for thought
- deep meaningful questions
- Arctic Monkeys
- simple things
- a cause for concern
- probably the most embarassing purchase in the world
- Stockholm - a word of warning
- a narrow escape
- infrequent flyer
- absolute disgrace
- teetering on the edge
- Due to a complete lack of demand
- by Royal appointment
- 9/11 - The Falling Man
- In Shreds
- unfortunate choice of words
- heart stopping moment
- One small step...
- Ciddy getting giddy
- I come to praise WordPress
- the post that never was
- WordPress humour
- Thunderbirds are go !
- from zero to hero
- from hero to zero
- probably the funniest TV show ever
- autograph hunting
- from zero to eternity
- LinkedIn.com
- management consultants
- payback time
- tags, categories and labels
- from zero to infinity (and beyond)
- new month, new job
February
- out of the closet
- the great Tammy NYP blog hoax
- going on a diet
- full circle
- from zero to 0.00000001
- wireless wierdness
- unused, unwanted, unloved
- Google launches Google, err, Page Creator
- how bind variables made me a demigod
- probably the best music review in the world
- small is beautiful
- to whom it may concern
- Getting Things Don - spelled correctly
- introduction to ETL for Oracle
- poor mans satellite navigation
- breath of fresh air
- the black stuff
- top of the (WordPress) pops
- email harassment (from Microsoft)
- heard it on the Newsvine
- Web based calendars
- UK blogs
- breaking news
- interviewing stories
- interviewing stories
- interviewing stories
- so farewell then, Palm Vx
- more statistics from WordPress
- a short history of Oracle blogging
January
- finally succumbed
- stampede at London Waterloo
- curious case of the missing spool file
- Most Haunted
- Most Haunted
- Unix for lazy people
- Burns night
- one less reason
- resisting the lure of Joomla
- Gary Neville - no apology whatsoever
- credit card security
- senseless waste of good people
- surreal Sunday
- great news for RSS readers
- The world according to Google
- recursive financial advice from the BBC
- life is so unfair
- caution with BA online check-in
- Im not paranoid
- probably the best marketing campaign ever
- seldomly asked questions
- revenge of the BAA queue monitor
- less is more
- PC backups with SyncBack
- sports bars of Europe
- queuing theory at BAA
- in praise of Mark Burgess
- starting out with GTD
- Paul Stamatiou, I salute you
- WordPress.com open up user forums
- not getting things done
- Raptor is out of the cage
2005
December
- WordPress.com adds a couple of themes
- WordPress.com improves statistics
- confession time
- issues arising
- detailed analysis of referer logs
- hostelries in West Bromwich
- good news for WordPress users
- whats the (blogging) frequency, Kenneth ?
- The Killers at Live 8
- probably the best comment spam in the world
- high availability, resilient, non-stop, 7×24 computing
- bitten by Newsgator
- a brush with West Midlands constabulary
- Tom Raftery podcast with WordPress
- another RSS reader for consideration
- Xmas present for bloglines users
- UK edging towards 1984
- RSS feeds from the BBC
- so farewell then, Pete and Geoff
- British Airways - making travel easier
- comparison of RSS readers
- circular discussions (#2)
- circular discussions
- thoughts on digital radio
- probably the best phish in the world
- WordPress.com business model
- End of an era ?
- Ricky Gervais podcast
- Guinness brewery tour
- SonicStage 3.3 released
- separated at birth
November
- probably the best blogging platform in the world
- BlogShares
- new Regulus theme for WordPress.com
- so farewell then, George Best
- How to track your blog
- my personal pensions crisis
- credit where credit is due
- music for a (very) long car journey
- thoughts on the Blogger to Wordpress upgrade
- the big match atmosphere
- Winter is the time for migration
- Sony car radio/CD/DAB
- another change of scene
- Ingres, OpenIngres and OpenSource
- blog etiquette
- Am I am an Oracle luddite ?
- E-commerce at Microsoft (UK)
- George Best
- tweaking the blogger template
- The curious case of Patrick Gibson
- How to name your blog
- How to get ideas for your blog
- Resurrection of a gadget
- Doug Burns, I salute you
- How to write for your blog
- How to publicise your blog
- Tom Kyte makes mistake shock
- Emacs as a Web 2.0 application
- comparison of Blinklist, del.icio.us and Furl