• Well back to the grindstone after a fantastic two weeks of travelling around South-Eastern Europe. Saw some fantastic places and sights and I can only hope now that the film footage comes out well and reflects the memories of the various attractions. It was tough going being on our feet the whole time but there’s…

  • Well we managed to make it to Vienna and currently I am hooked up via my pda to a WiFi hotspot I found for free in Brauer Strasse 🙂 Siân and I had a great time in Budapest and would definitely recommend the place for a visit. So far the trip has been great with…

  • Hoildays

    Holiday update!! Well I’m in Budapest at the moment with Siân (https://www.jbwan.com/bio.htm) So far we’ve been through Venice, Lake Bled (Slovenia) and Zagreb in Croatia. Can’t really say much about Zagreb as it wasn’t the best experience but the rest of the places are somewhat enjoyable. Looking forward now to enjoying a thermal bath somewhere…

  • Drop the blog

    Well I didn’t think that my lack of postings would result in such action by Google to consider dropping the indexing of blogs for the sole reason of a lack of valuable information. I’ll have to start posting some interesting stuff again 🙂 source: The Register

  • Rant!!!

    Well it’s June 6th and my weblog has received so few entries in the last month that it must have all but disappeared from the indexing webs of various engines. Problem is that I have been too occupied with other things and have not had a chance to continue my daily reading. Further more I…

  • Looks like bugbear has reared its ugly head again in a fresh round of derived viruses. Beware… source: The Register

  • At long last after many moons of navigating the universe NASA decided it would be a good idea to take a picture of Earth from the proximity of another planet. So if any of you were wondering why we are continually invaded by Martian spaceships then it’s probably just because we look like a good…

  • Ever really wanted to write some code that did something pretty cool like traversing an entire website? Well now’s your chance to write your own Java spider to do just that. This article from Gamelan shows how Programming a Spider in Java

  • Mac has piles

    I’ve been a big fan of Mac OS UIs for some time now even though I never took the plunge to buy a Mac myself. I’ve just noted this potential addition to the next release of the Mac OS. Imagine a file system where you could look at all the files in a folder before…

  • Get Counted!

    Do you use Linux at work or at home? If so then why not help to provide some statistics and show how many Linux users there are out there? This site counts the number of registered Linux machines and their respective configurations to obtain some kind of profile about the owners. Worth a few minutes…