The other day I built a computer almost from scratch. I can admit it, I can nerd it with the best of them when pressed, ok I don’t even need to be pressed. I had a bunch of components lying around, a not too old processor, a bunch of fast RAM and a laptop hard drive all I needed was a case. That was easy to rectify as I’ve always fancied building a little PC and Shuttle do some excellent barebones machines. Now the premise of this post is not the coolness of my new computer (although it is quite nice) but the ease at which it took to build. When I was Young. When I was young and the ‘internet...

I’ve been hyper busy in the bat cave (aka the garden office) with end of year projects, Christmas parties and general shenanigans (who sounds like an Irish military commander). It’s times like this when it’s good to see another site straining under the weight of usage and the imaginative page showing that times are good, yet the server load isn’t. Many sites (the tr.im one is too the left) now put up fun pictures when there servers are taking the strain. These pictures let you down gently, but thoroughly (no slow response just no response) with a promise that coming back later will make...