Michael S. Clark

I’ve been playing about with a multi-threaded download manager for RapidShare in C# for a while now and I was looking around for better version control than a Windows Briefcase directory. Since this is a personal project, I didn’t want to use our SVN code repository at Computa, so I had a look at Google [...]

I visited my brother Bryan last week. He’s in the RAF, and posted at Cosford, just outside Wolverhampton. What a drive that was – 6 and half hours! We went to chocaholic’s paradise, Cadbury World when we were there. Definitely an experience; especially the factory shop. 48 Creme Eggs for £7! Not for the faint-hearted, [...]

I recently came upon a situation where a client’s website was hosted by their ISP. They wanted it to be updated, so as always, I looked at using WordPress. Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range. That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL [...]

Under usual circumstances, hosting WordPress on IIS7 would not normally allow permalinks to be used. There are some commercial solutions, including the ISAPI_Rewrite module (which I couldn’t get to work). Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any [...]

As I type this Mozilla, the company behind the groovy Firefox browser, has just created a new world software download record of over 5 million downloads in less than 24 hours. You can get your 7MB download here and track the download progress here. I got a certificate too! (You can get yours here.) [Via: [...]

Today’s the day! Click here to watch for progress. Update: Those of you that want to get Firefox 3.0 right now can use this FTP link, everyone else that wants to help try to set a world record will have to wait until 10am PDT and hit up the official site.

My dad got a call a couple of weeks back from the chairman of the Oyster Trust in Arbroath. He’s a old work colleague from Halliburton so he and my dad got on. The Oyster Trust run Oyster Craft and the Oyster Bar, or OB’s; a sort of alcohol-free pub where “the kidz” can go and [...]

I came across FreeYourID.com recently. We activate your personalized address for all your web identity data and services on the Internet personal identity space, .name, and an email address you actually can own for life, as opposed to having an address on someone else’s domain. It comes with an identity management service using OpenID, and [...]

A petition has been started to change the ridiculous Tiswas/Live & Kicking logo for the London 2012 Olympic campaign. Please sign it and help get this embarrassing piece of brain-splurge removed from history. Update: Thanks to everyone who signed the petition. Almost 50,000 signatures speaks volumes. I have decided to close the petition as it [...]