Tim's Wee Part of the World

Stumbling blocks – things that happen that get in the way of you progressing and can, if you let them, defeat you!
I Never say Die – and I’ll battle any technical issue I come across until I succeed. But it’s how you get there that’s poked it’s head up.
Writing the Ultimate Membership Script.
I got it [...]

Well in my last post I raved on about my new HP Mini 5105 Netbook that comes with Windows XP.
So I installed XP, which was a very simple process, and even went as far as installing Firefox and a few other little thing I like.
So I was deciding whether to trash XP and install Linux [...]

This is not a detailed version of events – unfortunately.  I’ll add those after things settle down and I get some work done. More has since been added – [ update - see resources below ]
Now I have been running Kubuntu 8.04 ( the KDE3.x version of Ubuntu ) for sometime. It’s been upgraded from [...]

What, you never send any. Hmm, well for a very long time I never did either.
It was just too hard.
When you have to pick out the card, write out the card, address the envelope, put on the stamp ( well you could get the kids to do that if you have them) it can become [...]

No this isn’t going to be some ranting about everything I’m doing and everything that makes me what I am….
A New Social Network Adventure
Nope, MyLot is a new discovery of mine – prompted by my good friend Lou Roggio. It’s rather interesting, in fact it could very addictive and for a lot of Good Reasons.
I [...]

I’ve just got back to write a new post on something exciting and well…
I nearly had a heart attack!
I took a look at the site and nearly had a heart attack. How ghastly. Actually it came to be like this as I was going to do some changes ( still am ) and record them [...]

I actually got the opportunity today to have a play with Windows 7. And wasn’t it just soo much fun.
Now to set the scene here, I am a Linux User, but I’m not that closed minded that I’m out to bag every other operating system out there just because Linux – in particular – Kubuntu [...]

I’ve just been on the phone to a nice lady from my ISP helping me out with my internet issues.
Thanks Monica – everythings running a treat now.
And it came up in conversation that I run Linux which she replied to not ever having heard of it.
Bad Bill Gates and his mates for blinding people…..
It’s the [...]

It’s now less than 2 days before GVO officially launches which is kind of exciting.
GVO is the new name of the hosting company called Kiosk. Now I’ve been with Kiosk for over 7 years using their services ( not just their webhosting ) and over that time, they’ve developed a number of programs that work [...]

The Problem
It can seem to be an ongoing battle. Trying to remember how you did something after you realize you did work it out “once upon a time” .
So they are

Remembering that you already worked out a solution to a problem in the past.
Remembering where you can find the answer again.

So what to do!
Well first [...]