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Entries from January 2008

Website host move nightmare

January 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I have had so much downtime from moving hosts that it is untrue. I’m sorry about the site failures that have been happening since Friday.
This is going to turn into a review / rant about Hostican, the hosting provider I moved to. This is my personal experience of them:
Pretty much as soon as I moved [...]

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Moving Hosts

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

www.creationrobot.com is moving domain hosts.
As the DNS servers click over expect some downtime.
Sorry about this, it is unavoidable. Normal service to resume shortly.
Thanks!

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How to write a blog - the 5 golden rules of blogging

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

What is a blog? What should a blog be? What’s your blog’s point?
Well one of the original bloggers, Jorn Barger, gives his views in this Wired article. Some of his points I agree with, some don’t make sense and take the power and bite out of the collective production and sway of the blog.
At [...]

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Tags: Blog Tech · CreationRobot · Personal

Using SATA on a MacBook Pro or Windows Laptop - Part Two

January 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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Tags: CreationRobot · IT · Review

*Updated* iTimeMachine fixes Time Machine on AirPort Extreme Base Station

January 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments

Update: Apple has released this update that fixes the problem. After installing the update Time Machine will see and use USB drives attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station. No more hacks required.
Update 2: For an easy to follow guide on how to get this running see Michael’s post here.
Here’s the old post, you can [...]

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The CreationRobot Future

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I have no intention of taking over the world.
Really.
That said I think it is time I tried to expand on the CreationRobot blog. I’ve made a couple of attempts at this before, but the sites had little concrete focus, and by little I mean about as focused as fog.
So recently I’ve been putting thought [...]

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Origami X-Wing instructions

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Now you too can build your own X-Wing fighter. Huzzah you yell.
Yes you do.
Go on. Yell Huzzah.
Damn you.

Origami X-Wing instructions

Tags: make, origami, star wars, xwing

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The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories for 2007

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I have a few things that I follow, one for example is abandoned places, another is strange creatures …
My favourite off this list is number 5:

Tags: adult, News, photo

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