If you want to find out what business is really like, especially from a software engineers point of view, then you can’t go better than reading a few dilbert cartoons, take this beauty for example.

Might start throwing tips into this blog from time to time, here’s a quicky…

In programs such as a web browser where you type something into a textbox and it lists all the things you have typed before, if you are like me and actually use those to save you typing what you are looking for in full this is for you.

To remove stored entries in almost any of them just highlight them using the arrow keys and press the delete key to remove them from the history of that individual textbox so you have less crap to scroll through as you use your computer efficiently.

This probably works on mac and linux computers too, logically it would but I only have time to use one PC OS.

I got my first computer when I was around 10, or earlier… can’t remember exactly – I had two Commodore VIC 20 computers, and two Commodore C64’s, around that time in the mid-80s there was a weekly magazine that came out and had 5 bigass binders that held all 52 editions together. I couldn’t remember the name of it and it’s so obvious… just found it now on wikipedia here. You got little computer programs that took ages to put in to those first generation home PCs and inevitably you would make loads of typos that would take so long to debug you would just give up.

But sometimes they worked, and I guess that has a lot to do with why computers have been such a massive part of my life.

I had a massive purge of facebook friends to strictly people I know, and changed the RSS feeds import to just posts from this blog rather than my network of sites, I’ll keep stuff like Bingo for by bingo facebook alter-ego marketing login etc which makes far more sense all round.

Only a couple of days left until we are all off to Turkey – and me and Natasa got the sneezes… had the doctor check us out this morning and we are not growing pig snouts… just a bit of a cold which will hopefully disappear before we fly out.

Think back to when you first saw police academy, wasnt that black cop with the beatboxing etc wicked, well he has nothing on these three…

First we have the girl who is very good with her mouth.

Then we have this bloke from Japan, yeh he doesnt look like much with that accent but man he can impress.

Last we have beardyman who has been featured on my blog before, and is undoubtedly one hell of a talented bloke.

OK one more…kind of.. looks a bit weird for now, but perhaps a talent of the future :)

After about 6 months of occasionally wondering why when someone commented on one of my blogs, I never heard about it (you usually get an email to say someone commented and you need to do something about it). It turned out to be rather technical stuff which if you are so inclined can read about on my main site, the article on wordpress email bug. I don’t use the term bug lightly either, it seems like a pretty inconvenient hole in the framework if you ask me.

Along with other scandalous bugs I have come across with popular freeware in my time such as the fantastic firefox browser (my favourite), where all you need to do is copy someones profile and you get their entire browsing environment.. history.. cookies.. stored logins.. bit of an easy hack really once you know where to look.

So if anyone can be arsed to comment on this, I will be eagerly awaiting the emails that tell me you did so.

We are getting ready to take our two month old boy on his first flight, off to see his family in Macedonia, it is going to be a very exciting time!.