Charlie Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 and went on to be involved with some of the greatest comedy ( in my opinion ) of all time, spending around 75 years in the entertainment business. I can add a bit of a ‘Two for the price of one’ in terms of postings here, another […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve got a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer/scanner which worked fine under Windows but was having a bit of a problem finding a driver for Ubuntu, a quick search revealed that a few others were having a similar problem so I thought I would post the solution I found. First off you can download the drivers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space aboard Vostok on 12th April 1961. That was only 58 years after Orville and Wilbur Wright took the first powered flight in the Kitty Hawk. This year, in June, the Atlantis will make the last of the Shuttle flights before that particular project is retired. Some will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During the 60′s crime rates and racial tensions were on the rise in the States and New York was suffering as much as anywhere else. One area that was affected was the Taxi Cabs. This became such a problem that the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission ( TLC … Ahh )mandated that all official […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a child I spent many a happy hour building all sorts of structures and vehicles out of Lego, the one disappointing thing was that I never seemed to have enough of the stuff. This was not a problem shared by 6,000 Lego lovers in San Paulo recently who had half a million of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve just seen Battle: Los Angeles although, as it turns out, I have seen it before … Just in small parts. From their site : ‘For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lets start off with a still from one of the videos taken in a Cumbrian sewer : As you can see it appears to be a humanoid creature lumbering down the sewer, but before you start getting paranoid before lifting the bog seat … DON’T PANIC It is a fake ( surprise, surprise ), made […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just thought I would add a quick introduction to my little family of robots. I’ve always been interested in Electronics ( and actually started a Degree in Microelectronics and Information Processing at Brighton Polytechnic but took my year off after 2 years and never returned ..), anyway a few years ago I started playing around […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Possibly the most effective SQL injection attack has recently been reported by the security firm Websense who named the attack Lizamoon after the name of the domain that victims were redirected to. Websense started tracking the attack on March 29th and the initial number of sites infected stood at 28,000 and been rising since. I’ve […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to a few interviews recently and one of the recurring themes is the good old literacy and numeracy tests which have varied from the simplest up to one that was actually quite advanced, and times varied from 15 minutes to 1 hour. Athough these tests have been around for quite a while I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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