My desktop is always a mess. I constantly download files there and forget all about them. Every now and then I copy files into sub directories, so my desktop looks sane for a day or two before it gets out of control again. Why don’t I write a script that I can schedule to do this for me. Then my desktop will always be...
One of my jobs is adding extra features to our internal databases. There is a fair amount of risk in doing this. I could make a change to one of the queries in the database that stops the rest of the company using it as they need to. This could be a costly mistake, almost as bad as the database server being...
n the film Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan Spock sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise from destruction. What follows is a very moving funeral scene and his coffin is launched into space. McCoy tells Kirk that he is not dead as long as we remember him. Yesterday the actor Leonard Nimoy passed away and millions of...
Last week I blogged about the Game of Life. Well it took some searching through dead hard drives and old USB storage but I found the program I wrote, and better than that I have figured out how to turn it back into source code. The file date is November 2004 and the source code has no comments so I don’t know what was...
I work for a company that provides a cloud computing website, but what is Cloud Computing? Wikipedia defines it as “Cloud computing involves deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources.” Erm. What does that mean? Well...
You may have noticed that my blog has a new home. It can now be found on its own domain http://www.funkysi1701.com . This change not only gives me more flexibility to make any change I like, it also feels good to have a website again. If you had followed my blog, do keep following it at the new location. I have also...
The podcast I recorded the other week has been released, why not have a listen by heading over to trekmate.org.uk and comment on their forums This week Sina, Chris and Paul welcome Simon Foster, Trek Mate’s News Editor, to do discuss his Desert Island Trek choices. Paul becomes Firbob, or AntiFirbob, or…something like...
Many, many years ago I tried to learn Java. I didn’t get very far but one of the things I built was The Game of Life. Unfortunately I can not find the code I wrote, probably a good things as it is probably amusingly bad. Now you are probably asking what is the Game of Life ? The game of life, sometimes called cellular...
The Great British Bake Off and The Great British Sewing Bee are very popular TV shows. Each week the contestants take part in a baking or sewing challenge and the judges choose the best and the worst, with the worst having to leave. This is very entertaining as you watch the drama between the contestants and the...
I am lazy, I won’t try and deny that. When my alarm goes off in the morning, I will snooze it for twenty minutes or so before getting out of bed. In my work my laziness continues. Remote Desktop (or RDP) is probably my number one laziness tool. For those that don’t know RDP allows you to connect to another computer and...