The fantastic people at Facebook certainly know how to progress, improve and revolutionise. They sometimes take flak for a new feature, especially if it goes against how people currently use this massive social platform. In the case of Timeline ... (more)
This is a guide to updating your Linux server for SSL-enabled, IPv6-happy email transmission using sendmail! Here are the things you need to have already: An IPv6 address for your server. Your internet hosting provider will be able ... (more)
The Manor House A beautifully restored period building dating back to the end of the 19th century in a semi-rural setting on the edge of the village, which hosts a pub, a lovely church and post office. Double, twin or single rooms with ... (more)
Here's a top tip for your mobile phone: Create a contact called ICE and include your emergency contact number (and their relationship to you). If you are badly injured or unconscious, then the emergency services or hospital will be able to ... (more)
For optimisation purposes you have decided to create a new field in a table, and that field needs to contain a computed value of rows from another table. Say that your first table will contain the maximum date from the second table, and that ... (more)
This is my big Facebook prediction for 2012: support for dead people. For now, only living, real people are supposed to be on Facebook, and I don't know what the protocol is for Facebook members when they die. What I imagine is that living ... (more)
Google Plus (or Google+ for short, or G+ for even shorter) is search giant Google's latest attempt to 'go social'. It is doing this so that it can make its search results more lively, and to try and bolster its position as the place you go ... (more)
Am I seeing things? Or missing something? There's what looks like debug output sat at the top of the timeline right now. Hasn't anyone in the dev or qa team seen this? One line says 'Home' in large font, and another says 'true'. Very odd ... (more)
Here is a list of mid-range notebook computers with 14" to 15" screens, and a few prices for comparison: Acer Aspire Timeline X 3820T Core i5 Laptop, 13.3in (1366 x 768), 4GB DDR3, Dedicated Graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium, 1.3MP camera ... (more)
I'm not one to complain about a free service like Facebook, especially when it works so well at keeping people in touch, but... I was very surprised to discover that links I view (but don't like) in my feed appear in friends' timelines. All ... (more)