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{ Monthly Archives } February 2008

New site theme at last

I finally got around to replacing the default WordPress theme. Now it doesn’t look like I don’t care about my site
With so many freely available themes I found it difficult to choose but I stumbled upon plaintxt.org and my mind was made up: I needed one of those minimalist themes and I opted [...]

New 5RM Deadlift Today

Over the past few months I haven’t been quite the gym freak that I’ve been in the past but one exercise I have continued to regularly train has been the deadlift.
Saturday mornings had become my sole weekly strength session so I had to ensure I was getting as much bang for my buck as possible [...]

Virgin Media customer satisfaction shocker

As I mentioned yesterday, my broadband had been on the blink and this morning I decided to take action as I need to do some work from home this weekend.
Just before 9am I phoned tech support and was suprised to not have to wait on hold: my call was answered almost immediately. The support guy [...]

Trigger happy without broadband

For 2 days now the “ready” light on my cable modem has failed to light up and hence I’ve had no internet access at home I’ve tried power-cycling the modem, leaving it unplugged overnight and even disconnecting and reconnecting the cable input. No Joy.
I checked the Virgin Media service status page and can see [...]

6 months at $BIG_CORP

I can hardly believe it, today I'm 6 calendar months into my position as Analyst Programmer at $BIG_CORP.
How time has flown. More surprisingly, I almost seem to have grown accustomed to the stress of working with mission-critical systems and getting called-out in the wee hours of the night.

Fun with Photoshop and cross-browser CSS

The consensus wasn't to go live with the new site straight away after all but to create a better impression on the public by waiting on the final design and within no time at all Jordan had worked his graphical magic and delivered the goods.
I was supplied with a .psd mockup and got busy with [...]