Michael S. Clark

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 [...]

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 [...]

So it was my 30th birthday recently, and we got a new LCD television for the lounge to replace the “HD compatible” rear projection one. I bought it in good faith expecting to play my XBOX 360 games in high definition, but it seems that “HD compatible” is not the same as the “HD Ready” standard [...]

You’ve gone and left your charger at home. You’re out and your phone or mp4 player has no charge left. What do you do? Now you can charge up all your USB-powered devices by simply breathing. Here’s a guy who figured out a way to make his own charging device out of a few spare [...]

I finally had the opportunity to write a small application which I’ve needed for a while. If you’ve ever needed to rename some files that have similar filenames based on a pattern, then this is for you. There are other renaming applications out these that use regular expressions, so I thought I’d throw my hat [...]

That’s right…Google is giving away free broadband via the sewage system! Sign me up boyo ;¬)

I finally had the opportunity to look into traffic compression using gzip / deflate on IIS6, and utilising the compression in Web Service calls in our C# project, netBake. This article gives instructions on enabling compression on static and dynamic contents in IIS6. Now, this only tells the server that if the client can requests compressed [...]

Since I bought my new gaming rig, I’ve used my old machine to upgrade my web server so hopefully you’ll notice some increase in performace.

The Euro model will be designed differently from the US and software will take over some of the functionality that was originally taken care of by dedicated chips. Dedicated chips cost a bit more than software so Sony is actually skimping its EU customers despite charging them more. But the result is that if EU [...]