http://www.deryckthake.com Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:41:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After listening to Ross Anderson on Radio 4's Today programme this morning I went straight to The Big Opt Out and filled out the opt out templates for myself, Mrs Deryck and Deryck Junior. Until any British Government is able to deliver a big IT project on time, to budget ... http://www.deryckthake.com/2006/12/18/245/ Doh! I feel for this and paid up. Yet Another Government IT Fiasco. http://www.deryckthake.com/2006/12/16/246/ http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/06/06/multimedia-message-2/ Admiralty arch ... where I seem to have spent most of today. http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/05/25/multimedia-message-3/ I just added John Blade's wp-mail hack to my installation of WP. Now I can upload photos directly from my mobile phone to this site. I put a cron job in to poll for new pictures every hour. His hack has a few bugs, the fixes are described here ... http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/05/20/pictures-from-my-mobile/ Magdalene College, this morning http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/05/20/multimedia-message/ Tesco car park, Leytonstone (NOT photoshopped, I swear). http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/05/17/nice-number-plate/ I installed Thunderbird last week as a replacement for Outlook Express. The principal reason was security, a secondary reason was to reduce the amount of bloated Micro$oft software on my computer and a third reason was to see if it was a big an improvement on OE as Firefox was ... http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/02/22/thunderbird-teething-problems/ Went to see The Aviator last night. An impressive film alright but didn't really give you too much information about the man himself. A quick look at the Wiki entry for Howard Hughes revealed more that the film left out: 2 marriages, syphillis that may have been the cause of ... http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/02/20/the-aviator/ My new neighbours held a house warming party and invited all their neighbours round as well as their own friends and family. It was the first time that I had spoken to some of my neighbours. The topic turned to Vodka who it seems is well known to them. ... http://www.deryckthake.com/2005/02/06/vodkabillieblazemona/