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Understanding Google PageRank

As a great many of you were confused by my post on Google’s PageRank update late last month I thought I’d put together a very basic guide on what it is, and what it can mean for you. If I get chance I might even write a follow-up on how to improve yours (got to [...]

 

First Post on New Laptop

After ignoring what could possibly be sound advice I decided to order the Dell Vostro 1000. It arrived today, and here I am typing away. Or rather, I’m “yping” away because I seem to have a bit of a dodgy T key. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s new and needs breaking in a [...]

 

9lbs and an AMD Athlon 64 X2

Things have been a little slow lately because I had last week off work. Actually, that’s a lame excuse, you’d think that’d make me blog more…
Anyway, apart from being told I’m short-sighted last week we also had an incident with the car (Karl explains it better), I had a ’successful’ doctors appointment in which I [...]

 

Nifty Firefox Tips

I am probably the last person in the world to find out about this (a bit like Amber and my last post), but I was reading about some nifty Firefox shortcut tips today… open a new tab, type in just “jemjabella” in the address bar and press CTRL + Enter. See what it does?!
OK, here’s [...]

 

Keyboard + Coffee != Success

I was having a great morning this morning. I had managed to catch up on some code that I was behind on for work (through no fault of my own, it’s a huge project) and everything was going well. Then, just after lunch, I went to grab my coffee cup and caught it with the [...]

 

A Request and Some Updates

Firstly, does anyone know if there is a way (or a program) to alter the mapping of keys on a Mac? I keep hitting ” for @ and vice versa and it’s incredibly frustrating when I’m coding all day and keep surrounding attributes with superfluous @.
Update: Instead of re-mapping the keys myself I managed to [...]

 

Handy Ubuntu Apps/Links

In true chuck-myself-in-at-the-deep-end Jem style, I’ve been fiddling with Ubuntu again because there are certain things I want/need to learn. After spending several hours trying to familiarise myself with all the basic crap, I’ve started downloading some handy stuff that I figured I’d share, along with some useful links.
Automatix — Automatix is a graphical interface [...]

 

Photo Friday: Technology

The photo:

You are looking at quite possibly the most over-used photo in my entire ‘collection’. This photo has been used on a layout for almost every single one of my mini-sites, including tutorialtastic and currently: Karl’s Asylum.
I have no idea why, but it is probably one of my favourite photographs. Not because of the quality [...]

 

MS Win WMF exploit

I wasn’t going to blog about the new Windows Exploit because I know quite a few people already have, but as it turns out: Microsoft are being slow as usual and won’t be patching the issue until approx’ January 9th. The exploit is becoming incredibly widespread, new variants are popping up everywhere and apparently spyware [...]

 

Ubuntu, baby!

So. Karl was fiddling with Ubuntu on his Desktop PC last night and after stealing my wireless key managed to get it working on Linux. Wooh. I took the mega scary oh-my-god my-laptop-is-going-to-die step this afternoon and HOORAH! I am now a linux n00b! My wifi key picked up the network straight away, and well.. [...]