Category: Techie Stuff

February 28, 2008

What Every Man Wants

Filed under: Personal, Techie Stuff - 28 Feb 2008

I was interested to see that one of my favorite news sites Vallywag is now including a daily “soft porn” feature, perhaps more interesting has been the reaction of some journalists in creating filters so that you can read …

February 2, 2008

Plus Ca Change

I am back in England today. The reason is very exciting, for part of their school curriculum, my son Jack (age 13) has to do a week of “work experience”. As we live in the south of France in the …

January 18, 2008

Website Hosting

Filed under: Personal, Techie Stuff - 18 Jan 2008

Three years ago I had the ultimat nightmare of anyone working with the Internet and tryingto make their living - my site was hijacked. The server was infiltrated and used for sending out millions of emails and other stuff - …

January 7, 2008

In at the Sharp End

To launch my new communty service for owners renters and property sellers and seekers I have been thinking of new names and designs for logos and stuff.

Some readers have offered help and support, Vicky - a

January 3, 2008

Our House For Sale in Sorede

I have been working with some video and animation techniques to find the best way to present properties online - many websites offer expensive slide animation with music but I found a simple and free system that …

December 21, 2007

Tis the Week before Christmas

And what a week - after two difficult years we can look forward - and we are looking forward. The big big news is that I have just launched the start of the beginning of my rentals site .

This …

November 29, 2007

The best Au Pair in the World

My wonderful 18 year old (nearly 19) daughter Miranda got her Baccalauriat International this year with the highest marks in her group for the whole department - she was asked to go up into a “high falutin” University streamer, but …

November 27, 2007

Never worry about power failure again

I always try to have a back-up power supply but this is something else - how about a three megawatt generator for your emergency power.

A friend of mine is selling a complete power supply big enough for a small town …

October 27, 2007

An Apple a day

Filed under: Personal, Techie Stuff - 27 Oct 2007

My next computer will be an Apple - although I have had a fair innings with XP, I am not going to try Vista. A lot of my reasoning is that people I respect in the IT industry have …

October 23, 2007

Facebook pinging and friends

Filed under: Business in France, New Ideas, Personal, Techie Stuff - 23 Oct 2007

I get a lot of mail asking for introductions to other people with similar interests - it occured to  me that if anyone interested in asking about anything to do with France, property or rentals were to join me in …

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