Archive for February, 2006

Smoking Ban

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Following on from my previsous comments on this subject
Dont get me wrong, I think the smoking ban is a great idea, but like most things this government does, it is a? poorly implimented, Draconian approach. I think there is room for a small number of “licenced” venues which allow smoking. By licenced I do not [...]

Species5618 is getting married (SHOCK HORROR)

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

At the age of 38, I am getting married on the Friday the 26th May 2006 to Theresa Hampton
and just because i could a countdown is here http://theresahampton.com
A Small? Wedding List is at Debenhams
List number 52900?
? or

137 Hour Sky plus box, Gets even better !!!

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Well? I have been running my supercharged sky plus box for almost two weeks now without a hitch. During which time? she who must be obayed, and the one who originally said 20 hours is more than enough, has been quite happy to record LOTS of stuff. Add to that all my Sci Fi stuff [...]

Skype V SIP (cont)

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

For any one how has read my first Skype V SIP? rant.
According to an article on lightreading.com, it would seem that eBay, who aquired Skype for $2.6 Billion late 2005, have differeant ideas and may start looking at interoperability,

Smoking Ban V TAXation

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

I have just spotted this article on the ban on smoking vote which on the surface seems like a? excellent plan, but what most people seem to have missed is the income the Government get from TAX on Cigerettes will probably drop significantly and need to be? replaced. Which will result in increased TAX somewhere [...]

137 Hour Sky plus box upgrade

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Over recent months i have been suffering a small dilemma, Lots of NEW TV series starting and not enough SKY+ time to keep up.
24, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Lost, CSI LV, CSI NY, Invasion, Threshold, Battlestar Gallactica to name a few. So I set about looking at upgrade the SKY+ box from the paltry 20 [...]

Species5618 goes LAMP

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

After Many months of using windows (IIS) based blogware and never really being happy with the look and feel I thought it was time to look at alternatives.? A few of my friends and collegues rave about open source and LAMP? and having just built my first LAMP Wiki, HTTP://how-to-build-an-intranet.com, I thought? i would look [...]


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