Archive for March, 2007

Woeful England - will somebody sack Steve McCLaren and drop Frank Lampard?

Posted by David Hurst in Personal, Rants on March 26th, 2007

Did anyone else sit in stunned silence watching the England v Israel game on Saturday? 79% possession to England and no goals. Why is it when England have so many world class players they simply cannot produce a decent result? Simple really: big name players being played out of position. Here’s England’s best line up in an attacking 4-4-2 formation: Read the rest of this entry »

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PHP - include all files in a folder

Posted by David Hurst in Example Code, PHP on March 20th, 2007

Ever wondered how to include every file, or a series of files in a folder without having to reference them individually? It’s easily done with PHP’s glob() function. Read the rest of this entry »

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Spare a thought for the British motorist - Part 1 - oppressive taxation

Posted by David Hurst in Motoring, Rants on March 20th, 2007

UPDATED: I’ve had to update all the figures in this post, because in the few months since I wrote it, petrol has risen by 10 pence per litre. Unbelievable.

Why is the UK government intent on killing off the car? Not satisfied with chucking our industry to the dogs, the senior governmental bean counters have turned their attention to the softest target of all - the motorist. Consider if you will, the tax implications of driving in this country…

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How private is your e-mail?

Posted by David Hurst in Issues, Technology on March 19th, 2007

Interesting question this, brought to the fore recently by a client of ours. Due to a mail server upgrade and subsequent restore of an out of date user database, his server reverted to an initial email configuration from when we had first commissioned the server. Oh dear… Read the rest of this entry »

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Sony Vaio FS315S - broken. Yet again.

Posted by David Hurst in Hardware, Issues, Personal, Rants, Technology on March 18th, 2007

I bought the Sony Vaio FS315S just over a year ago, and was initially impressed with the quality of construction and general performance of the machine. I looked after it and used it regularly until I bought my MacBook Pro, at which point it was used in my company. Read the rest of this entry »

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