www.momondo.com Very useful search engine for flight connections (sometimes it searches through fast train schedules as well, like Eurostar). It shows prices, takes under the consideration the airports which are close to the provided location and shows the prize graph for different dates. Although, there is one big inconvenience. You have to put the fixed dates [...]
Trying to explain to an IT-illiterate why Outlook’s emoticons don’t travel well
July 30, 2011
It’s to do with character sets. Computers work in numbers not letters. So to a computer, A might be stored as 65, B as 66, C as 67 and so on. So a computer could store HELLO as 71 69 76 76 79. And the people who design computers decide that the characters needed by [...]
How to send a web page to someone else
July 28, 2011
1. Go to the page you want me to see. 2. Highlight everything in the address bar. (The address bar is the wide horizontal box at the top of the screen with the address of the web page in it. It probably contains something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGFVhzmnYWg) 3. Copy the address by pressing Ctrl+C or by [...]
Effective terrorism
July 27, 2011
From 2008: Often when I see something being done badly I have an overwhelming urge to show how to do it properly, or at least explain how it should be done. Anyway, you know how we’re regularly reassured that evil Islamists are plotting to murder every one of us? Either this is a lie or [...]
Why I wish Danny Baker was still presenting 606
July 27, 2011
From 2008: Danny Baker is doing 606 on Tuesdays. He’s way better than all the other presenters because his priority is to make the programme fun, rather than to talk about the football that’s just been played. Chelsea lost 3-1 to Roma and Liverpool drew 1-1 at home with Atletico Madrid and neither he nor [...]
Me and Caspian Pizza
July 27, 2011
From 2008: The pizza episode is painful to recall. When I called them initially they were very nice and I mentioned the two hop warehouses issue, which they said they’d pass on to the delivery driver. At 10, 15 mins after they said it’d be here, I phoned and they said they were sorry but [...]
Me and the Institute of Advanced Motorists
July 27, 2011
Written in 2008: I’m an Associate Member. I joined a couple of weeks ago and have yet to even get in a car with anyone from the IAM. I’d been meaning to join since I passed my test in 2001 but didn’t do anything about it until I saw the IAM stand at the “Worcester [...]
Avoiding Ryanair administration fees
July 25, 2011
How much are Ryanair administration fees? Have you ever wondered how much Ryanair administration fees are? Or how to avoid them? Let’s say that you want to go to Bydgoszcz (PL) from London Stansted. You find this fantastic offer at the Ryanair website : £19.98 for a return ticket¹. It’s much less than you need [...]
Backing up a WordPress site
July 25, 2011
As far as I know (I’m a WordPress amateur), the most important parts of a WordPress site to back up are the database and the theme. On most sites posts will be added much more often then the theme updated. Regular database backups are important to ensure that minimal content is lost in the case [...]
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