Recent Writing

I'm afraid that for this blog entry you're going to have to sit through some "bullshit-back-story".

Unfortunately this isn't one of those success stores. But then again if I wrote about those I'd be hitting a few thousand posts a year, and plus they're really boring to write about.

If you're using a combination of a scripting language, diskshadow and task scheduler to backup your Hyper-V machines take special care to make sure that task scheduler does not cut off the job whatsoever. Doing so can cause the host server to crash out, although it doesn't seem to be perfectly repeatable I've been able to …

If you're even slightly geeky you will have seen any of several articles in the last 2 years that state "the URL is dead". With the inclusion of the search box in many browsers this is starting to become true, and is starting to present some interesting support challenges.

The last 6 months I've seen 3 companies that I've used both professionally and personally for various services using CC to mass email their clients. This is not acceptable. As result one of my personal accounts is on various lists and receives a marked increase in junk mail.