Please help! A comment just arrived on the “contact us” page, and it’s a work of art. I can’t decide if it’s a flame, or something intentionally funny. The irony is beautiful.

This is one of those “maybe it exists but I can’t find it” ideas. Something that I’d find very useful would be media player plugin that could use the ID tag from mp3’s (etc) to nip off to the WWW and find the relevant guitar tab so playing along is thus a very easy [...]

I find I work better at night: not just a bit better; a lot better. My code output seems to skyrocket between the hours of 23:00 and 04:00. Can anybody tell me, why? There must be a reason.

How can I tell my Apache server that MSIE prefers JPEG files over PNG?

Portsmouth is blessed with interesting skies, in an aircraft sense, and we keep being overflown by three aircraft today (and yesterday too, but it was cloudy).

Has anyone else used Koralcrete? Korakcrete is a two-layer spray-on swimming-pool coating.
When Boakes senior (aka Dad) dug himself a pool in the back yard last year, he selected Koralcrete for the lining because it’s visually stunning (and everyone who’s visited has been thoroughly impressed by its inviting lustrous qualities).

Has anyone I know actually used a household electric water softener? Was the experience worthwhile? Are they any better than the magnetic or salt based ones?

Many years ago, in the bar where I worked in Mumbles (Wales), there entered a bloke who sported a bandana. It wasn’t common for locals to don such headgear, and coupled with the tour dates on his tee shirt that were all for gigs in US cities, I figured he may not be a [...]

Does anybody have a digital copy of the (ahem) arthouse classic “Intrepid Michael: Traveller of Time and Space”?