My new hosting has a few different one-click install packages so i thought i would try some of them and see how they compare to wordpress

Joomla – so complicated it took me 2 hours to work out how to have more than a single article on the frontpage. Also make sure you have ‘magic quotes’ switched off in your version of PHP (took a while to sort that out). The level of control is severely scary and baffling

Drupal – just started tinkering with this but initial impressions are it is a bit more user friendly than joomla, but not as intuitive as wordpress.

Coppermine seems useful and I’ve also installed Lime for surveys but not created one yet 🙂

Amazing place!

I’ve just received a wireless charger may for the nexus 4. Seems to work well with my thin phone case, but not with the other halfs leather flip type case. Will update later with product details

I had misplaced my tablet and found it again today after a couple of weeks. It wouldn’t charge however. Turns out this a sort of android 4.x bug. All is well now after doing this…

To charge a dead Nexus 7:

1.  Plug-in your dead N7 to a wall charger. (Jump immediately to step 2.)
2.  Immediately after plugging it in, press Volume Down and Power at the same time.

*This should get you into the bootloader menu. You may have to try this with different chargers or test out the timing in order to get it to work.

3.  Once in the bootloader menu, use Volume Down until you see “Power Off Device.”
4.  Choose that option with the Power button.
5.  Once your device is off, unplug the charger and then plug it back into the device.
6.  You should now see the battery meter  with your device returning to life.

Worked a treat for me 🙂

Found a neat way of boosting your wireless signal indoors with some tinfoil, a template, pritstick glue and a craftknife – the Windsurfer aerial

I’ve found a useful gmail feature when trying to work out how to reply quickly to a ‘first come first served’ email about a wine tasting event that is likely to be very popular.

You can enable the ‘canned response  feature in gmail, setup a response ‘yes i’d like to attend the wine tasting next tuesday’ and create a filter so when the wine merchant emailed me my reply went back automagically and immediately. It lets you setup an automatic response when an email is received from a specific sender.

Setup canned response

Of course if the wine merchant had sent his email from a different email address from his usual one I would be stuffed 🙂

Cycled up to work today, nearly killed me, much more than usual. Turns out the rear brake is binding. I tried to adjust the caliper mountings and managed to depressure the caliper instead = rebleed of the avid brake which is a pain (although 50ml luerlock syringes are useful for this 🙂 ) I have also lost half a powerlink when taking the chain apart to soak it in degreaser. If you see it let me know…..

I’m trying to choose my wine for Christmas Day. So far I have almost decided on a red from Langmiel winery in Oz and a safe sauv blanc from Marlborough in NZ – Fairhall Cliffs

At the moment it is probably the Huawei Ascend G300. £100 on PAYG then a fiver to network unlock off ebay and then root,unlock bootloader,install recovery and flash a custom ROM of your choice 🙂

There is an excellent how-to guide here

You can now network unlock it gratis but ebay was quick and easy.