The Pinged Hobbit

A lot of people would say the only thing Internet Explorer is good for is downloading something else to surf the web with. Truth be told, I’d tend to agree. My current browser of choice is Firefox and it has been for a long time now. That’s not just because I spend most of time using a Mac either. Even when I use a Windows machine I still look for the the FF icon to do my web browsing. I only use IE when I have no other option, like if I am using an ASP based app which does seem to need IE to run properly. Judging from the ever growing market share of other browsers against IE. Its a fair assumption that more and more people I coming to realise that they don’t have to be stuck with what comes installed on their machine. Continue reading »

It’s been a while since I last posted anything to this blog. Infact I haven’t posted sicne before I went to Peru and that was at the end of October. Things have been a little hectic since then. Work has kept me busy, my social life seems to have suddenly become very busy.

Peru was an even better experience than I hoped for. Despite the fact that I suffered altitude sickness quite badly during the trek I still managed to make it to the top. It was more than worth the feeling of my heart about to explode on the way up there!

I now find myself once again looking to take up my blogging activities, to share some of the useful tips and items I find as I look around the web. Hopefully I will manage to keep this up over the coming weeks

Any regular reader of this blog might have noticed a lapse in postings over the last few days. It’s not that my appetite for posting my rambling has diminished, far from it. I still have the urge to clear my mind on a regular basis. I am however at the moment rather distracted as I prepare for my forth coming trip to Peru.

This time next week I will be getting ready to fly away for 16 days to South America and hopefully an interesting journey. During my time away I doubt there will be many posts, I wont be taking a laptop with me or a phone so no I wont have Internet access when I want. As a self confessed technology junkie I am not sure how I will react to this sudden flash back to my pre-computer youth. This will be the first time in over 10 years I have not had regular access to the Internet, I have a feeling I may suffer culture shock a lot harder than I suffer altitude sickness!

Rest assured on my return I will have hopefully documented my travels, both visually and in the written word and will only be too happy to share it with anyone interested!

It would seem that what ever I write seems to be a favourite of spam bots around the internet. Every time I log in there is a least one comment on one of my posts that is obviously spam. Seen as how I am getting visited by a lot of them I thought it might be nice to make use of this aspect to fight back, so here is a nice link for the bots to follow Help Stop Spam Emails .

Hosting a blog on a web space you pay for you expect that odd outage now and then. It’s not something that you can control unfortunately. But you would at least expect that a week.

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