Martyn on April 28th, 2009

I’m flattered! What have I done worthy of such high accolade?  They must have the wrong person so here it is in the hope the right person manages to claim his free Who’s who entry (oh btw gullible fool, would you like to buy a copy of the book in which you will be honoured?  [...]

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Martyn on April 27th, 2009

It might take a while for NASA to replace shuttle instrumentation with PHP but who knows what will happen?  Search for new innovation and 9/10 it’s been developed with PHP and it’s being offered as open source.  With so many examples and so many people writing about it the Internet has become a giant PHP [...]

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Martyn on April 23rd, 2009

For those who don’t know today is the day when English men are supposed to celebrate their Englishness.  Unlike Scotland and Wales the Englishmen’s identity is rapidly fading as the UK government doesn’t like the idea of giving them the same kind of independent privileges enjoyed by the Scots and the Welsh. Not that I’m [...]

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Martyn on April 22nd, 2009

Digital Dave came up with an issue that I had never given much thought to, he wanted to update the icons used by www.police-traffic.com in the tools page.  He had uploaded the icons and then began changing the paths manually in the manager.  Anyone who has done this before will probably know what a pain [...]

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Dave’s been at it again, www.police-traffic.com is themed traffic exchange as you might expect.  The inside has a slight naughty twist with a rather unusual villain.  Not sure you could call it erotic but certainly sensual!

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Martyn on April 13th, 2009

Dave joined us a couple of months ago to help out in our technology department and it turns out he has an eye for design.  He completed his first exchange for us a few days ago and promised here are a few pictures. He recorded the upload and integration process and has forwarded me the [...]

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Martyn on April 11th, 2009

My Address Changes, What’s wrong with that? As a contractor my address and residency changes frequently.  While some may think it’s a flamboyant life moving from country to country, and it does have it’s compensations, it does mean there is really nowhere to call home.  It’s likely I will end up in the UK but [...]

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Martyn on April 7th, 2009

I had a remarkable conversation with the Liberty Reserve support team which left me wondering if they’re just a scam of some kind.  No I take that back, but it certainly felt that way.  There are a few stories about them and Wiki mentions a $1 million loss due to a hacker, but what bank [...]

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Martyn on April 5th, 2009

On a visit to the UK I spent an afternoon in Lowestoft, a beach resort in the south.  Living abroad it’s easy to forget the quintessential brit feed, aka, fish and chips.  Sadly the Europeans no longer let us present it properly anymore.  Instead of yesterdays Sun it’s plopped into a polystyrene box with plastic [...]

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Martyn on April 1st, 2009

The Stormpay fiasco a couple of years ago hurt traffic exchange owners with one losing $14,000.  Like lambs to the slaughter these devious bastards preyed on thousands of people without a second thought for the consequences happy to profit from the cruelty of their greedy actions. Financially our loss was small, but three or four [...]

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