http://blog.spikedeffect.com SpikedEffect's views, opinions, comments on life, technology, the internet, programming and more... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:22:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You know, I've not as yet written about this year's football season just past, and that is quite surprising considering I'm an avid Manchester United fan lol. So as such I've decided to dedicate this post to the world of football (or soccer for those who call it as such). So ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/06/10/a-season-to-remember-a-council-to-forget/ Hello out there to the people (or person, as it's more likely to be) reading this entry, first off an advance apology to those not really into the "technical" side of computing or computing in general... This post is going to (at least in the first instance) be a post ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/04/23/the-cheap-pc-upgrade-path-is-dead/ Hello to the world out there, I'm back... even though in reality I've been here all along, I've been back for the past few weeks quite intensively working on things behind the scenes and behind closed doors. There's been a lot going on both with the development of www.spikedeffect.com and my ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/03/31/major-development-and-some-big-news/ It's been, well let's just say "a while", seems that things this year got chaotic and as with everything in life part of the blame must be mine, along with other aspects in life. Last time I wrote here was many years ago... or at least that's how it feels, unfortunately ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2007/06/03/walking-down-wembley-way/ Hi there all, after a bit away I am back, I apologise for the delay in writing here again, things have been tight in time as of late and certain things really didn't help either, for this post as there really is a lot to cover, I'm going to split ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2007/01/30/attacks-gaming-and-limited-time/ Hello again all, since my last post not much really has happened of such significance due to work taking most of my time up, however, last weekend I took a break with my missus as we managed to get hold of some extremely hard to get tickets to go and ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2006/11/25/london-alive-with-the-sound-of-music/ Yes, believe it or not I am actually still alive, after a while away I'm back to abuse the freedom of speech that is commonly called blogging. A lot has been going on, both in life and in public affairs, with me being in my final year things have been ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2006/11/04/words-to-fill-the-empty-space/ It's been a while since I've posted I know, and it seems every time I do, I say I'll post more often and then I get dragged onto other things in life which deter me from writing here, but I think this time I do have a pretty reasonable excuse. Last ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2006/09/09/holidays-moving-and-chaos/ Hey there all, well I am currently sat in "The Irish Village" located within the departures lounge at Dubai international airport waiting patiently for my onward flight to Jeddah. It's 13:30 local time, and I arrived in Dubai at 07:00, and began the wait for my flight that departs at ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2006/08/04/the-final-call/ I've been a user of Trillian for a long time now, but as time passes I have become increasingly frustrated with it. For those of you who don't know, Trillian is a multiple protocol instant messaging program (e.g. it allows you to connect to several instant messaging services in one ... http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2006/07/19/goodbye-trillian/