I filed my tax returns today. The scary part was that it was due today.
The truely harrowing moment was when I found that I could not activate the PIN number that had been sent to me. Instead, trying to access Self Assessment Online just gave me the following error:
A problem has occurred. Please try again [...]

Interesting gig last night.
After not seeing Marillion live for over a year, Steve and I made our way to London and the oddly named ‘Koko‘. The journey consisted of us considering our feelings about the forthcoming album, ‘Somewhere Else‘. We were finding it difficult to summon up a great deal of excitement about the release. [...]

I had a bit of trouble booting into Ubuntu after connecting a new SATA hard disk drive.
After a fair amount of searching, I found a solution at linuxquestions.org. It seems that his system had shifted the disk from hda to hdb. As I’m using a SATA disk, I needed to change the drive from sda [...]

A friend of mine was asking how to find the emails for Outlook Express on his hard disk drive. So I thought that I should post these instructions for him and others who may find it difficult to get at these files.
In Windows 2000 or Windows XP:
Open ‘My Computer’
Goto your C: drive (or wherever it [...]

After upgrading to IE7 in Windows XP, we found that non-admin users were once again seeing the Open File Security warning dialog box.
Once again, the issue can be resolved by visiting the group policy. Open up the appropriate policy file, and follow the path to:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [...]

I hear that Microsoft didn’t take one of my BETA bug reports very seriously. Even after updating the drivers through windows update, audio is an issue.
Sound is still stopping on my Analog Devices sound card, with no errors, just an absence of noise.
Since Beta 2, I’ve adopted this method (which seems to be the quickest [...]