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Great news re Lotusphere 2011 content

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Ever wanted to go to Lotusphere but couldn’t persuade the powers that be ? Bill Malchisky – who I’ve seen at ILug presenting the Domino Linux stream blogged here about the availability of the sessions from LotusSphere 2011 Joyce Davis helped fight the good fight for the Lotus Community and we won. Today, her team […]

Get your game on

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When I qualified in Computer Science – game programming was not even an option for students. Over the years though it has become front and centre for courses to have an element of the development of games and the principles required to write these games. However all is not lost if you want to dip your […]

Plurk updates failing :(

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Just spotted an issue with Plurk not updating when posting. This is the second time it has dropped out. Time to investigate Site was offline for some time this morning due to essential maintenance All back and working though

O2 coverage in Centerparcs

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Just a note to say that if you are planning a trip to Centerparcs in either Nottingham or Penrith – the O2 network coverage is very weak. Also had issues with very slow Internet access on the internal wifi network. You could use dialup connections if all else fails. In fact I did that on […]

Twitter feed hacked

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Have just found that my feed had been compromised with the usual “Mom makes $500 a day” spam  – can only assume that Twitter’s bruce force break protection is not all its cracked up to be. Well its now even better protected and  I will be looking at other means of protecting the account.  Not […]

Slow broadband – curse of holidays

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I have had to put up with absolutely terrible internet access while away on holiday. Its pretty amazing that the carriers cannot actually get their act together and put decent wireless or broadband into areas with large numbers of people. Loss of signal and flapping between networks makes the situation even worse. I definitely think […]