Meeting David Coulthard

Lotus Evora S

Having had a wonderful week away with my family I returned home to an email from BOTB.com with the subject title “Best of the Best/DC”. To begin with I thought it was an announcement from BOTB.com about competition or some big noes of some kind but once I opened it my week managed to get even better…

HCG Facebook Spam/Hack

Randomly your Facebook feed shows that you have lost 30 pounds in 4 weeks…

Codeigniter Beginners Tutorial Article

Over the Xmas break I was lucky enough to be asked to write an article for the 12DevsOfXmas website. Despite my advancing years this was the first time I’d been asked to write about web development in a technical manner so it was a bit of a learning curve for me.

Excel CSV import returns an SYLK file format error

How to fix Excel has detected that ‘balhblah.csv’ is a SYLK file, but cannot load it. Either the file has error or it is not a SYLK file format. Click OK to try to open the file in a different format’ errors

F1 heads to SKY

For me TV is not an important part of my life. I don’t watch American dramas, I don’t watch Reality TV, I don’t watch Football, Golf, Cricket or Tennis. As such I have ZERO need for Sky in my life…

Add google +1 to your site easily

Everyone is talking about Google + 1 right now so it’s worth getting the button setup on your website so those using the service can recommend you to others.

Follow the link to get the code and read my advice on setting it up.

My first Twitter Phishing attempt

Never had one of these before…

You can easily guess it’s a phishing attempt but please let your friends and clients know.

5 useful tips to protect your business

Scarily, when talking to businesses with my IT hat on I’m finding a large number of them STILL don’t have any kind of protection for their IT from the basic level of surge protection and UPS to offline backups and replacement kit available.

Alun gets a gobsmackingly brilliant phone call

I’m pretty sure I don’t use the term ‘Gobsmacked’ in day to day conversation. In fact I can’t remember a time in my life previous to last Thursday when I had ever used it. Strangely though it was somehow the perfect word to describe how I felt a few moments after my phone rang.

GMap: map.setZoom

If you have a map with multiple markers you may be using “map.setZoom((map.getBoundsZoomLevel(bounds)));” to rezoom the map then “map.setCenter(bounds.getCenter());” to center it.

Sometimes this means that although the ‘point’ is in view the marker gets pushed off the top of the screen.

Setting up Google Analytics Accounts and Profiles

When I first started using Google Analytics I merrily added site after site to my account, unfortunately a few months later, when a customer wanted more access to their account than just reports (users cannot set goals etc, only and admin can do this) I found myself stuck as I could not give them access to just the one site.

Lotus Driver Training

Back in November I had the unfortunate pleasure of becoming 33 years old (or half a Junks as we like to call it on SELOC). In order to balance this someone bought me a day at Lotus on their Driver Training Program. I booked immediately and waited eagerly for April…