Richard Lennox

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While there are still relatively few visitors to this site, I am really pleased, yet surprised, at the current unique visitors statistics. This blog constitutes my random musings on a variety of items and that some people are reading and interested in them is very interesting.  It is funny though, I rarely know who my [...]
I have said goodbye to Virgin Media and its DNS service and welcomed Open DNS. DNS [Domain Name System] is used every time you browse the Internet.  You enter the human readable (well understandable anyway!) address of a website into your browser and the DNS, translates the into the IP address (4 group numbers) that [...]
Having got my computer back to being good for my entertainment look what I picked up off the YouTube: Top Favourites feed today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0   This guy seems to do a few when I search YouTube for "beatboxing flute" and therefore I will subscribe to his feed ! Great! 
As none of you will have noticed, there have been a few periods of downtime last night into this morning! This is because I have been upgrading the underlying Wordpress installation to the latest and most secure 2.1.3.  This is a significant upgrade from the 2.0 version although not a major update.  Thankfully it has [...]
Well a Happy Easter to all you who cross this blog today! Not too many chocolates today folks!
I have spent the last couple of days rebuilding my machine.  Reports of internal organ failure were slightly premature, it was more like a life threatening internal bleed than complete internal organ failure!  My rebuild consisted of 3 components: Format the HDD. Clean reinstall of Windows. RE-install all my applications and data. Luckily I have my Netgear Storage Central [...]
So this was the submitted project for the Multimedia module of my Computer Science course.  The task was to cram in as much "Multimedia" into something different.  It was a bit of fun in what if I remember correctly was 3rd year! It is now a legend in the CS department at Heriot-Watt. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7859165005347940422