Another thing that’s been bugging me for a while on the tech side of things at home is my router. It’s a Zyxel 2602 and while the interface is shiny and the setup is fairly easy, the damn thing has a tendency to atrophy and die after some days of uptime … if there’s been [...]

Not long ago, the battery in my Dell XPS M1330 decided it was time to die. Apparently, I had hit the wall: my battery which would run fine for an hour and 20 minutes, just died – one day to the next. No warning signs. Nothing. What’s a geek to do? Look at Dells offers? [...]

Random stuff always seems to happen in a non-random fashion. When you’re hanging low, for instance, more bad things seem to happen to you. I suppose that’s partly the case with me, currently: I’m currently out of a job so money is an issue (not currently that much of an issue but it’s there) hence [...]

There can be just one judgement on this airline: they massively suck! They are so incredibly poor at customer relations your mind will almost refuse to believe it. And now, they have proven even worse at handling security. Here are the happy details of complete security-management failure:

You now HAVE to check-in online. There is no [...]

Setting up a wordpress blog is not hard, even if you’re tired and enjoying a very nice glass of Laphroaig. Remembering your new admin password, on the other hand, can be very hard in that situation. So what to do when you have forgetten it? You could try having your wordpress install reset it, but [...]