http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/ Shameless self-promotion en Woo, back in Scholes for Christmas!<br /> <br /> And I&rsquo;m already full&hellip; We had a Thai takeaway for tea when we got back &mdash; my parents had just driven up from Norfolk this morning, and after taking three hours to get me back home, it was a lot easier! They always give us far too much, we even considered getting the set meal for two (it&rsquo;d still be enough for the three of us).<br /> <br /> After food came the next most important thing &mdash; setting up the computer! Now my parents have the <a href="http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2006/09/21/dell-laptops-suck/">laptop</a>, there&rsquo;s no need for a desktop upstairs, so I&rsquo;ve just moved over the peripherals to my machine. The one exception was the screen &mdash; there&rsquo;s no going back from TFT, I&rsquo;m afraid!<br /> <br /> So what&rsquo;s next? Looks like it&rsquo;s going to be a few drinks with some <em>bona fide</em> Yorkshire folk! Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:22:16 GMT http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2006/12/17/back-home/ With the launch of <a href="http://microsoft.com/windowsvista/">Windows Vista</a> looming, Microsoft have released a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing">viral marketing</a> campaign featuring <a href="http://demetrimartin.com/">Demetri Martin</a>, called <a href="http://clearification.com/">Clearification</a>. The hiring of an American comedian to advertise their product was matched by Apple, who hired Demitri&rsquo;s <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Show">The Daily Show</a></em> co-correspondent John Hodgman &mdash; alongside Justin Long &mdash; for their <a href="http://apple.com/getamac/ads/">&ldquo;Get a Mac&rdquo; campaign</a>.<br /> <br /> Both are really funny; I don&rsquo;t like Microsoft as a corporation, and I don&rsquo;t like the Mac OS, but I can cast these feelings aside for the comedy! Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:53:31 GMT http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2006/11/26/microsoft-vs-apple-advertising/ I have just installed and started playing with <a href="http://mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox 2.0</a>. I&rsquo;m afraid to say that the first thing I did is install the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3479/">Winestripe</a> theme, which is essentially the FF1.5 default theme &mdash; I wasn&rsquo;t impressed with the 2.0 default!<br /> <br /> Looks aside, the rest of the changes seem about right &mdash; they finally got round to including a search engine manager as standard, and the previewing of web feeds works rather nicely &mdash; though I did just finish writing the XSL for my <a href="http://cmbuckley.co.uk/news/">news feed</a>! Bah&hellip;<br /> <br /> Hopefully we can go climbing outside tomorrow, though I&rsquo;m not sure we have enough kit. The shoes alone might be an issue&hellip; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:48:27 BST http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2006/10/25/firefox-20/ It now seems that the server is back up and running rather well.<br /> <br /> I still can&rsquo;t believe, after so many times, that I haven&rsquo;t learned to back up SQL tables! Still, nothing can be done&hellip; I&rsquo;m just glad that the website itself wasn&rsquo;t lost!<br /> <br /> Hopefully everything on the Scholes MAFIA and CMBuckley networks should slowly return to normal. The <a href="http://pictures.scholesmafia.co.uk">Pictures site</a> will be getting a major improvement from the admin side &mdash; and users of <a href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> (you procrastinators, you) should notice a few similarities too!<br /> <br /> Right, bed time&hellip; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:30:00 BST http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2006/08/03/back-up-running/