Sam's Ramblings

I wanted to move some wordpress sites from an old server to a new one and wanted it to be as seamless as possible. I really didn’t want to use an automated plugin - I’ve tried them in the past and they either don’t work (either badly coded or some...

I was talking to someone recently who told me that if we divided up the land between each living human, we would get a surprisingly small area each - of the order of two football fields. I was stunned. But not wanting to take someone’s word for it, I decided...

I use the number keys a lot. Not the line of numbers at the top of the keyboard, but the grid of numbers to the right. In order to use these numbers, you need to have NumLock set to on. This is just a simple keyboard press to activate it....

I am terrible with presents. Every now and again I have an idea of what to get somebody for Christmas or for their birthday and inevitably I forget before the event. But when it came to the wedding of one of my friends, I had an very definite idea of...

I recently mounted my Linux Mint home directory on a different internal hard drive to the operating system. Why did I do this? I wanted the operating system to run on a solid state drive to allow my computer to boot and run as quickly as possible, without limiting the...