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Home Server Pt.1

Barry — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:07:55 +0000

This is post 1 of a series of entries I’ll be making to document the progress of my Home Server build/setup. As you’re reading through, please feel free to let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to cover. —————– Last week I acquired an old PC – Nothing spectacular: Intel P4 3Ghz 2GB Ram No HDD DVD/CD-RW Drive Quite [...]

Dear Apple – My iOS Improvements

Barry — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:08:50 +0000

Hey Tim, if you’re reading this feel free to hook me up with a job As you may know, I tweet quite a bit about Apple and it’s products/services. Tweeting about the products means I read a lot about them, but more importantly, use them. When using any product from any manufacturer most people will [...]

My Top Steve Jobs Quotes

Barry — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:00:35 +0000

Round spectacles, black turtle-neck jumper, creator of some of the most revolutionary products to date. That’s how most people remember Steve Jobs. I’d like to share a few quotes from Steve Jobs that may make you remember him for something else. Inspiration. So, here are my Top10 quotes by Steve Jobs. 10. “We think the [...]

Calculate Amps Per Phase with PowerCalc

Barry — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:32:15 +0000

Most of you won’t actually know, but my day job lies within the UPS Industry. We often get potential customers calling in advising us of their load requirements – the majority will give us a kW figure, which is nice and easy, but some will present us with Amps per phase. We need to take [...]

Will I Become Infected?

Barry — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:47:48 +0000

A discussion took place in our office today, which led to me becoming the latest in a long line of people to download the Infected audio book by Scott Sigler. Two guys in the office are massive Sigler fans – ‘Junkies’ I believe they are officially titled – and have persuaded me to look in to becoming [...]

No sound on iPad after iOS update

Barry — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:18:44 +0000

After playing around with all the lovely new features of iOS5, you come back to the the one game you’ve been playing for months – you love this game – but wait, what’s that!?! No Sound!! It seems there’s a little bug in iOS (not just iOS5) that struggles with the toggle switch. We all know that [...]

New side project

Barry — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:32:49 +0000

So, I have setup a funky little URL Shortening website for myself (and for anyone else for that matter). I realise I could just use bit.ly, TinyURL etc but that would make me the same as everybody else wouldn’t it? You can check it out at http://smlr.ws – It’s not quite finished yet, but does [...]

A Soldiers Xmas

Barry — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:25:47 +0000

This is a little something I read on one of the car forums I frequent. Do you’re part and pass it on. T’WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HE LIVED ALL ALONE, IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE, MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE. I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY, WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE, AND TO SEE JUST [...]

5 Things To Do In 2011

Barry — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:53:20 +0000

Last year I promised myself that I would treat myself a bit more and get out to some events and generally do some ‘stuff’. 2010 is now pretty much over and the only things of note are: My first ever Rugby game – Wales vs Italy Six Nations at Cardiff My first ever stand up [...]