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7 August 2008 0 Comments

Aviator hotel in Farnborough

Aimi and I had a meal in the restaurant of the new Aviator hotel in Farmborough last night and I must say that I was really impressed. The fact that they served Steak Tartare as a starter probably won it for me. Here’s some photos that I took:

6 August 2008 0 Comments

Carnival comes to Aldershot

This weekend sees the annual aldershot fun fair at manor park. Rides are half price on Thursday at just £1 a go.

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21 June 2008 2 Comments

A credit card worth having

My general view on debt is that is it is that is mainly useful when acquiring an asset that will give you some tangible returns. For example, if a business wants a loan to buy some machinery that would allow them produce their widgets more efficiently, then that is a good reason to borrow. On [...]

13 June 2008 4 Comments

Site seeing in Rural Andalucia – Ronda

Aimi and I have been on a bit of a mission to find a wedding venue in Spain for the past week or so, but yesterday we took some time out to do a little site seeing. When most people think of Spain, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the hotel-lined beaches [...]

16 March 2008 3 Comments

Secure browsing on an insecure network – the easy way!

In my post yesterday, I talked about how to securely browse the web on an insecure Internet connection. The method I used was to install a proxy server (squid) on a trusted machine and ssh tunnel to it. However, one of my developers, Andy, kindly pointed out to me that there is a much easier [...]

15 March 2008 3 Comments

Secure browsing on an insecure network with my Macbook

UPDATE: There is a much easier way to achieve a secure tunnel/proxy that doesn’t require squid to be installed. I’ve blogged it here. The method described on this page may be useful if you want to log the pages you visit. Also, if you wanted to block out ads, you could swap out sphinx for [...]

20 February 2008 2 Comments

Bed Bugs

My friend Jake is currently staying in Malaysia. Last week his Mother came to visit him, and they stayed in the Heeren Inn in Melaka. Unfortunately for them, the beds were ridden with bedbugs, and after their first night’s stay Jake’s poor mum was bitten more than 50 times. The worst thing is that the [...]