I have been working on a ZERO touch build script for IIS on and off for a few weeks,
One of the last stepping stone for formating the “data” drive prior to setting everything up
“FORMAT H: /FS:NTFS /V:ASG” will prompt for “do you want to erase all yoiu data”, and again if the disk is [...]

We may all complain about bad days or even weeks at work, the price of fuel or get annoyed that the bank has just charged you £30 for a £1.20 mistake, but recent events in my life has put that all into perspective.
Yesterday I attended the funeral of a 19 year old lad (nephew in [...]

Over the past few days I have seen teenagers using social networking (facebook in this case) in a interesting way.
On Saturday (14th June) morning, a 19 year lad (Karl Hampton) was killed in a car accident. Within hours his friends had created facebook group (R.I.P Karl Hampton) which 4 days later had 270 members and [...]

Got my self a NEW Personal phone, HTC TyTn ii, last month, and like a kid with a new toy played with it all the time,
So I get my phone bill this morning ??177, ouch, it would appear I used over double my data allowance !
At a cost of an extra ??108 +vat

I get a few RSS feeds from many sources. This week I added the local paper www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, however it would seem the RSS feed is busted, as non of the article links contain a Fully Qualified URL, all the link are relative to the site ROOT, so while they work from the site, they are [...]

After going the full duration, 3 interviews and an assessment day over 3months
I had “the Call” from Microsoft HR consultants this morning
Unfortunately it is a “NO Hire” that makes it the first job (ever) I have applied for that I have not got ! BUM
Got some good feedback, no surprises for me though
Good points

General Technical [...]

Many years ago??I worked for ABB Kent Taylor as an electronics design engineer.
As part of my tour??I was involved in the design of a product call a MagMaster, and Electromagnetic flow meter, which use faradays principle of a moving conductor on a Magnetic field to generate electricity, albeit 15uV/m/s in this case
Anyway, I was part [...]

Over the past few years I have blogged on and off (mostly personal view points on the world, mostly those thing in life that annoy me), recently my blogging activity has exploded, due to the addition of some extra blogging outlets, I launched siliconpizza.com, my professional and techie blog on which I document almost any [...]

Like many??I have a blackberry and have been known to check business emails during evening and weekend and often deal with any issues there and then. With many scornfull looks from my wife ..!..
NOW the worm has turned
A few weeks ago, while offcially on holiday, I caught her checking her work webmail and then last [...]

I walk past a CEX shop on the way to the office from the buis stop every morning. If an attack of boredom strikes, of the need to get a TECH fix, I have a wonder in.
I have never understaood their pricing structure, in the past i have seen

2nd hand Wii’s 30 quid more then [...]