Michael S. Clark

A couple of useful links for registering domain names: http://domai.nr http://www.gandi.net

I’ve now successfully migrated my amalgamated my two existing servers to a single Windows Home Server, allowing me to host websites and clickonce applications and stream media to my XBox 360, all from a single box. The changes are listed below: Upgraded PHP to 5.3.0, which provided a few challenges, as it doesn’t support ISAPI [...]

It’s a bit fresher.

Baffle your coworkers with an "Insert Coin" message on the office printer using the HP Printer Job Language (HPPJL) command set. [Via: Lifehacker]

Clever network admin Pete decided to mess with his wifi-piggybacking neighbors by flipping all the images they’d see on web pages upside down. [Via: Lifehacker]

I recently purchased a small funky rubber USB flash drive from Integral with a view to making it a platform for storing portable applications, i.e., applications that can be executed directly from the drive without installing anything on the host machine. This is especially useful for anti-malware and browser or email apps. Here’s a few [...]

I’ve just found my house and car on Google Maps Street View! They said they’d done Dundee, but I didn’t realise that meant the whole of Dundee and Angus too. w00t!

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 [...]

There it was. A quiet, thoughtful moment, right in the midst of our rat-a-tat assault. There’s not much room for unnecessary thought during a drive-by shooting — aim and pull the trigger, aim and pull the trigger — but this one provided an odd moment of stillness and clarity. As time slowed to a crawl [...]

The DYMO discpainter surely has to be the biggest innovation in labeling since Lightscribe Using Radialprint technology the DYMO lays down ink directly onto the disc as it spins. The user is able to utilise every part of the surface from the inner hub to the outer edge.Print times are excellent ranging from 60 seconds [...]