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When I first came across the MacHeist Bundle offer I though it was too good to be true. The fact is that it’s a fantastic bargain. For the grand total of $49 you get 14 software packages that would normally cost just short of a whopping $500. If you’re only after two or three of [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post there were other reasons as to why I have decided to shut SharedServer.net down, but I couldn’t say what they are. Well, I can now. I have been recognised. Not in the “Oh look, it’s that Stut fellow” sort of way, but for my professional contributions to the [...]

It is with great regret that I must inform you that SharedServer.net will cease trading at the end of this year. This has been a difficult decision to make, but for various reasons it is not practical to continue. I wrote this in an email to my customers last weekend. After 10 years of running [...]

One thought keeps spinning round my head and has been for a while now. There are too many social networks for global participation to be practical. The core problem is that each site has their own list of your friends. This list is usually referred to as the social map and for the idea of [...]

Amazon have announced an SLA for their S3 service which is, you know, good news. But like every other company on the planet they place responsibility for monitoring whether they meet it on the customer. By definition an SLA is a company committing to a level of service. If they then expect you to monitor [...]

Techcrunch has written an article on the product Nick Halstead is preparing to launch into private beta this week, Favorit. It’s an excellent post, very detailed and is well worth reading. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/01/is-favorit-a-digg-killer/

It’s been a while since I used The Pirate Bay for various uninteresting reasons, but someone pointed out to me today that they have a usage policy. The fact that they have one is not really the most interesting part – what it says made me smile. The tracker may not be used by anyone [...]

Paul Graham has written an excellent essay about “Stuff”. I’m a big fan of Paul’s writing, and in this article he makes two basic points. First that we tend to hold on to things for no good reason, and second that things have gotten so cheap these days that whether we’ll actually use something rarely [...]

I decided to sort out two of my external hard drives today – haven’t used either for a long time. Unfortunately one of them has died so I won’t be getting anything off that. The other one however has turned up some gems from my past. I’m not done sorting yet, but I took some [...]

Well, sort of. This morning the PHP website announced that support for PHP4 will be reduced at the end of this year and discontinued completely on August 8th, 2008. This announcement follows lengthy discussion on the internals mailing list regarding the best time to do this and what the likely impact will be. After much [...]