Book Review: Battlefield Earth
Book Review of Battlefield Earth. 3 stars of out 5 for an interesting plot, but horribly underdeveloped characters with the psychological sophistication of infants
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Customizing Intense Debate with CSS
How to use CSS to clean up the IntenseDebate comment form and overcome the awful design of linking to the IntenseDebate profile instead of the user’s website
Things to do in Chicago – A travel guide
Travel Guide to Downtown Chicago for those completely new to the city. Places to see and things to do…all without a car!
Book Review: A Feast for Crows – A Song of Ice and Fire
The worse of the “Song of Ice and Fire” series. Nothing important happens, the plot doesn’t advance, and the storylines don’t meet. Martin’s book is a waste of time.
Book Review: A Storm of Swords – A Song of Ice and Fire
Martin plods through half the book before murdering two of the book’s main characters. It gets better after that, but not enough to make up for the boring bits
Book Review: A Clash of Kings – A Song of Ice and Fire
A boring second book with a ponderous plot and too little real action. I’m not interested in battle scenes in general and the main characters hardly advance at all
Replacing Broken Dart Shafts
How to replace a broken dart shaft with an Aluminium one. I use this with an Electronic dart board
Saving for Retirement – year two
Snapshot of my finances and how they contribute to my retirement goals. The new DTC may have some impact with the removal of ELSS schemes, but not much I think.
Why Facebook’s “Like” button is so slow
How Facebook’s “Like” button slows down my page by making at least thirty requests to the server! I’ve attached a screenshot as proof
WordPress hosting on Bluehost vs Go Daddy
Compares Wordpress hosting on Bluehost and Go Daddy. Looks at resource allocation and how to speed up Wordpress on Bluehost