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Yet again, the decision to live and work from our new idyllic rural base has come back and bitten us on the arse as our laughably sporadic broadband supply has cut out for the second time in a week.As the providers, updaters and general managers of a number of database driven sites, we kind of [...]

While I was heavily re-shaping our books portal this week, I decided to see what was the highest consumer rated book on Amazon UK. An interesting question, thought I, and one which was sure to turn up an interesting result.
Interesting, yes, but not for its variety, all of the top ten are Harry Potter books.
The [...]

Badgers attacking frogs - we all know it happens, but how frequently?
We collated the data, which makes some interesting viewing - there’s millions of unreported badger attacks on frogs each year, so obviously, this cannot be considered a conclusive study:

Click on the graph to see it in full size.

Its time for me to put my CEO hat on and write one of those articles which runs the real risk of being rightly criticised as self indulgent drivel, but write it I shall, nonetheless, as we’ve reached the end of a week which has seen more highs and lows than many. Plus I need [...]

The HotchSpot site has changed, and now sports a sleek new look. OK, so it is largely similar, simplified and contains more ads, but you know it looks better, right?
Its also the first black site we’ve made in ages, though we’ve kept the lovely header logo.
Check it out here.
What is HotchSpot?
HotchSpot is a site [...]

Until we started running our own servers, and generally having many more pages (over 250,000 at the last count), it wasn’t really that important if our little old blog or website was hit by a few extra hits from rogues and bad bots.
Now it is.
Today, on one sub-domain alone at one stage we had over [...]

Happy New Year!
The new year began without much of a hitch.
As always, the passing from one year to the next has prompted everyone and his dog to do a yearly review. After the ‘Christmas-Must-Have-Gifts-List,’ this is fertile turf for the lazy journo or blogger, therefore, I’ll leave them to it.
Although the title suggests that I [...]

Without commenting on the Sudanese legal system, I noticed a rather hypocritical approach on the part of the British media and public with regard to the school teacher who allowed a teddy bear to be named Mohammed. The tabloid press and grumblers in the pub, all complain about immigrants who fail to learn our language, [...]

In keeping with our commitment to democracy and freedom of speech we would like to lend our support to “Chaser’s War on Everything” and publish their most controversial of segments. John Howard responded to this song by saying “you blokes are a lot funnier when you pick on someone who’s alive”. Obviously he wasn’t referring [...]

An article entitled “Law has been left behind by new media” appeared the “The Australian” newspaper today and complains that jurors have access to internet fora when the rest of the media are banned for fear of prejudicing a trial. I’d just like to take up the authors, Peter Faris and Greg Barns, on [...]