richard hyland » General

Did you know?

Richard — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:15:07 +0000

So have we solved Global Warming?

Richard — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:15:06 +0000

… or did it maybe not exist at all. If the article I’ve just read is true then the Antarctic is bigger and denser than for 30 years. Hmm but I thought all our taxes were going up to stop us from melting all the ice caps?

Great come back to Brown at the EU

Richard — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:31:54 +0000

and

Update: Dan Hannan has made a blog entry about his video going viral and how the main stream media no longer control the news. It’s definitely worth a read.

Conservative Logo Generator

Richard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:35:14 +0000

…brought to you by the Labour Party.

Make your own logo, except hilariously they haven’t bothered to filter, check or prevent abuse of it

Try it yourself

http://torylogo.com/

Grammatical irritations

Richard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:52:57 +0000

We are not all grammatically perfect but when it comes to advertising you would have thought someone would check.

Advert on the tube for Nivea for men beginning with:

“who would of thought…”

Understanding the recession

Richard — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:14:11 +0000

A great graph showing the current state of the economy against other crashes.

Via dshort

Quite possibly the best advert in the world

Richard — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:20:09 +0000

Of course the it’s already been done before at Liverpool Street

April Fools on the Web

Richard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:26 +0000

Is it just me, am I getting old or is changing websites and creating pointless stories for April Fools a waste of time. Personally I’d just like to read my news without trying to work out if what they are telling me is real or not.

Some are very easy to spot, some however are not.

Here is a complete list for 2008.

Quite possibly the most annoying are:

All YouTube featured clips redirecting to Rick Roll
Virgle, Virgin and Google join forces to create a colony on Mars
BBC flying penquins

Although one of the funniest is this one from the Metro.

I’m married!

Richard — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:10:13 +0000

Well I’m officially married now, what a wonderful day and thanks to all of our friends for coming and sharing it with us!

Now just a week to go before the honeymoon

Virtual PC

Richard — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:56:18 +0000

I’ve been spending a lot of time working with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 the last few weeks. For those who don’t know what it is, it’s ‘is a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems‘. I use it for testing Windows applications on different versions of Windows and for different server configurations, etc but also for simply collecting old OS’s

I think my current OS list installed is

Fedora Core
Windows 2000
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Longhorn Server Beta
Windows Server 2003 (running IIS, SQL Server, PHP 5 and MySQL)
Windows Server 2003 (running IIS and a very early PHP 6 beta)
Windows XP Home
and I have previously had a Longhorn beta (Vista) and ReactOS but I’ve since deleted them

Basically I really only use the two Windows Server 2003 images and the Windows XP home for testing and development. My licenses for Windows Vista are my main installed OS’s so obviously I’ve not installed them in Virtual PC.

I’d be curious to know if there was even the slightest possiblity of getting OS X (Intel) installed in VPC soon