Monthly Archives: May 2009

Portrait

took the opportunity to do a few quick portraits of my wife the other day and was especially pleased with this example.

31 May 2009 – 23:16 | By kyber | Posted in photoblog | Tagged , , | View Comments

break over

I have had a really nice break from work, mostly resisting the temptation to deal with emails and respond to texts and voice mails. I am looking forward to returning to work tomorrow though as I always hate leaving things in mid flight. It is not so much that I do not trust others as …

31 May 2009 – 23:01 | By kyber | Posted in Holidays, Work | Tagged | View Comments

Moved my site onto a different publishing system

My blog has been running on an open source CMS (content management system) called Textpattern since 2004. Whilst I believe that this is an excellent CMS, it has to be said that development of the core by the open source community has been very limited for the last few years. I wish I had the …

31 May 2009 – 18:33 | By admin | Posted in blog, site | Tagged | View Comments

External filter for my aquarium

As I am away a lot and have a good number of fish in my tank these days, I thought I owed them some more industrious filtering so I purchased an external filterfrom the local aquatics shop.

30 May 2009 – 17:11 | By kyber | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Free wifi on iTouch with BT FON for BT broadband customers

The iPhone is brilliant but subscriptions are a little steep. The iTouch is pretty much the same device without the phone network connections (or a built in mic) and is just as good to use for most internet related activities provided you can find wifi access, which is pretty common now. The cost of some wifi services can be a bit too much to swallow though on an ad hoc basis (free access being rare). Subscription options are worth exploring. However, if you are a BT Broadband customer, there is a free option available that gives you up to 8 hours Openzone access a month.

29 May 2009 – 15:35 | By kyber | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | View Comments

Death of a comic

Seeing a comic get an audience completely wrong, lose confidence sand stuggle though to the end is not comfortable entertainment.

26 May 2009 – 17:50 | By kyber | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Mobile phone contracts

Mobile phone companies are not to be trusted. You need to track contracts very carefully, give early notice of completion of contracts, and record all dealing with them. If you don’t they will take advantage.

22 May 2009 – 09:06 | By kyber | Posted in Technology | Tagged | View Comments