General

Pingdom have released some facts and figures relating to internet usage during 2008.
Some of them jump out, others one just wants to say meh at!

Email

210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.

53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).

Websites

186,727,854 – The number of websites [...]

Here’s a little list which will probably grow - and yes I have to precede this list with the warning that the software is still only in beta - of things that bug me about Chrome. However, knowing how much Firefox has taken off surely Google would have at least thought to come close to [...]

As in quiet in two ways ….
I’ve been awol for a while from this blog and I apologise but there are things afoot in my life that sometimes one just can;t control. Along with being super busy with my family and work these things have all conspired to  keep me away. Anyway, things have gone [...]

Firstly apologies for my recent silence - but my household has not been well this past month or so. I have a teen doing his As with glandular fever and then I got the flu big time … but I’m back to my sporadic postings.
For the last three years Bruce Schneier has run a movie [...]

Just finished watching a very interesting video clip over at kotaku.com. Link to it is here.
The basic premise is that contrary to popular opinion video games do not increase the risk of your child becoming violent or going on one of the well publicised real life responses. In fact, the research actually points to the children [...]

Am I alone in seeing issues with this update?
There’s nothing concrete I can say except that my surfing can freeze for no particular reason and only one thing restores normal surfing - that is shutting down Firefox and re-opening it. Because I typically have four or more tabs open I’ve taken to crashing out so [...]

I am a happy boy tonight, well 4.33 am as I type this.
As most folks probably know by now Pandora went silent for UK listeners a few days back. I won’t bore you with the details of the whys as plenty of others have already done so. Anyway, after trying upwards of a dozen or [...]

Well not really, but my life or those near and dear to me do.
This is a quick 2007 in review thingy.
Close family member buried her husband at the start of the year due to rapid onset cancer.  At the end of the year we were burying her new partner due to an industrial workplace accident.
Shift [...]

No, not me. But I am pleased to say that Sustrans has won the people’s vote and they, of the 4 finalists, have been given teh £50 Million from the lottery fund.
In their own words:
Sustrans Connect2 Wins The Peoples £50 Million!
£50 million won and we couldn’t have done it without you!
This is fantastic news, [...]

OK - further to my previous post about The People’s 50 Million, the voting has now opened and I’ve placed mine for the Sustrans Project.
They had a bit of a hiccup as their captcha wasn’t working, but that has been fixed. Do be warned though, the registration captcha is easy to read in comparison to [...]