Archive for April, 2005

How to pour and drink the Perfect Guinness

How to pour and drink the Perfect Guinness LIVE FROM LONDON: It’s the beer that drinks like a meal — Guinness. But pouring the perfect Guinness is an art form, let alone drinking it. Advice on Guinness perfection from experts at a pub in London England. [How To Do...

Firefox Current Extentions

Here’s my current Firefox Extention List (generated by ListZilla): Enabled Extensions: (8) BetterSearch (formerly McSearchPreview) 1.8.0 ChromEdit 0.1.1.1 ColorZilla 0.8.2 CuteMenus 0.4 ForecastFox 0.7 ieview 0.86 ListZilla 0.5.1 Web Developer...

Making FireFox faster .. the slacker’s way ..

Want to tune Firefox, but don’t want to mess with lots of config files, obscure settings and other messy bits? … Enter Firetune, a small utility that tunes Firefox for you, without any of the pain. It also lets you as well as backup/restore configurations in case something goes wrong. Check it...

One down, Eight to go

Just check the EBS website for my MBA results and found that I’ve passed my Accounts! Yippeee!! Now it’s time to focus on Economics … now that’s a dry subject for you! Here’s what I’m doing …  Overview Very few managers have a grasp of economic principles and because of this it is often wrongly concluded...

Google maps the UK …

Google ROCKS … As predicted just a few days ago, Google has this morning launched UK versions of its local and mapping services. Yes, you can now find Pizzas in Plymouth with the aid of everybody’s favourite search engine. The services appear broadly similar to their US counterparts, and are apparently accompanied...

Weekend Links

Some quick links collected over the weekend: Unit Tests – How to build a correct one: http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/category/9834.aspx?Show=All RSS Network – Looking for a feed on something in particular? http://www.rss-network.com/ Scott and Rory – Looking to go to TechEd ? Check this out: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TechEdVideo4ItsAllAboutCommunityAndIceCreamAndBabyCarrots.aspx SPV C550 scheduled for May 2005: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/04/15/cw_orange_spv_c550/ FireFox 1.0.3 Released: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ All you...

Spam, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses etc

Just added a comment to Ramon’s Blog who seems rather worried about the alarming number of viruses, trojans and other malware his PC; and thought I’d echo it here as I’m sure there’s others who can benefit from this: There are some measures you can take to prevent this sort of aggravation. These fall into...

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