The Field Ration Eating Device, or “FRED” for short.
First introduced to these back in the late 1980's. Such a handy little camping tool. It's a combination spoon, bottle and can opener. Yes, it does take a bit of…
First introduced to these back in the late 1980's. Such a handy little camping tool. It's a combination spoon, bottle and can opener. Yes, it does take a bit of…
Was this handmade effort that a friend’s partner made. People in the office often admire the craftsmanship of her cards.
Airport men’s toilets are interesting places. You get to see and be offered all sorts of products, from “glow in the dark” condoms to toothbrushes. The shaving kits you used…
On a holiday courtesy of my previous hosting company. If you notice some differences, that’s why. My former web hosting company suddenly decided to enforce a bandwidth limit without telling…
By looking at the Security Event Log, and Event ID 529 In the above example, the user tried to logon to the computer while it was disconnected from the network. …
You might have heard of the five stages of grief. It’s a model devised by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. It doesn’t apply in all instances of loss and grief, but it’s a…
“Grief, I think, is not something you get over. I think, instead it’s something you travel through. And now I’ve travelled to the other side, I won’t forget the journey.”…
I’m currently doing another deployment of Acrobat Reader, this time with VBScript. I wrote about using Visual Basic to do that here. Function CheckForPro ' returns TRUE if Acrobat…
You might have seen this cartoon here before, but it’s worth repeating, as it’s that time of month. Some organisations require passwords that are longer than the 12 digit codes…
Back in October 2006, I wrote that I used Copernic and Google Desktop. Search Time has moved on and now I use Agent Ransack. Google stopped supporting Desktop Search in…