Visitors to my blog

I was curious about where people came from when they found my blog.

It appears that many people are looking for information about central heating systems supplied by British Gas, some are having problems with their Lexmark printer and some people are interested in music.

I will try to be more helpful in future, explaining how to solve printer problems in more detail perhaps - or visitors could contact me or comment perhaps :-)

I've been doing a bit more with Twitter this morning, but I can't get into pushing out comments about what I'm doing all the time, but it is interesting (to a point) looking at other people's comments.

I saw that a company who interviewed me in July (how time flys) for a MIS Director job are now looking for another member of staff: reporting to the guy who got the job. I applied. Looking at the job description that they sent me I found his name in the document properties and looked him up on Linked In. It appears he's a 3rd degree connection of mine. Scott brought me back to earth though by pointing out that he has 1.5 MILLION 3rd degree connections on Linked In.

Another TV marathon last night: "American Idol" eliminations, "Waterloo Road" from earlier in the week and then I watched Sean Connery / Ursula Andress in "Dr. No". They followed "Dr. No" with "Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me" on the Sky Movies Comedy Channel. So there are people with a sense of humour working at Sky Movies. It was "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" that featured the parody of the Ursula Andress bikini scene as Austin arrives at Dr Evil's volcano lair. I didn't stay up to watch it though.

Chatting, Linked In and Web Design

Garry came over today. We chatted about this and that and went through how he can edit his web site, maybe adding a blog to it. We also discussed Linked In.

David has done a great recommendation for me on Linked In, that's really nice of him.

I did some digging into the Trade Directories for London in 1840's. I found one from 1848 that lists "James Hamer" as a machinist - someone who works a sewing machine making shoes in all probability. This doesn't quite match the death certificate from 1849 that says "hatter" though. I'll have to look elsewhere for confirmation I've got the right person.

I got the spec for the 2nd Interview today as well. I need to do a presentation, answer a technical questionaire and face a panel. 

Chalton and Waterlooville

One of the other delegates at the Alton group lives in Chalton and had asked if I could give him some advice. He was having issues with using Linked In, Hotmail and his wireless network.

The Linked In issue turned out to be because he had two profiles, using different e-mail addresses. Linked In was using cookies to remember which one he last used to log on. The simple solution was to "kill" one of the profiles as you can't merge two profiles. Luckily he only had two contacts on the one he wanted to kill off.

The Hotmail issue was caused by him sending and receiving email for a different account using Hotmail, so he was getting a "sent by... on behalf of..." header. Not Hotmail's fault.

The WLAN was easy enough: he just needed to type in the password. The house walls are 1 foot thick in places though, so reception in his office may be a bit flaky. However a booster or an upgraded router may be cheaper than a separate DSL line which is what he uses now. The office has a separate power supply so he can't use Ethernet over power lines. He doesn't want to put in a physical network either as this would be unsightly. He's going to test the WLAN later as we ran out of time - he needed to leave.

I then went to Halfords in Waterlooville to get some bulbs for the car. One tail/stop bulb and one headlamp. I'd noticed yesterday that they were not working. Traffic chaos in Waterlooville as they are re-surfacing the bypass and the roundabout, so that took longer than expected to negotiate! For once the guide at Halfords identified the correct bulbs! However while changing the headlamp was easy peasy, the tail lamp involved undoing 2 screws, removing the lamp cluster, then unplugging it, then undoing 4 more screws before you get to the bulbs. Then you swap the bulb and re-assemble it. I did the headlamp in Halfords car park, but had to come home to do the tail light. I then noticed that one of the number plate lights has failed...grrrr.