The personal RSS feed of Richard Smith, using this feed you will be notified of new news, blogs and content placed on the Personal Site of Rich. <br />http://rich.smithtechnologies.co.uk http://www.richs.me.uk Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:58:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=245&Itemid=49 Yes I now have a week off........in theory.........unless something seriously fails........or breaks.......but thinking positively..........I have a week off. I've been very busy as usual but have burned out recently so need the break and to deal with a few things that usually carry a lesser priority. (Like updating this site). So yeah I may post some stuff, I may even replace the site completely and move to Wordpress. (I only use this site for blogging so having a wordpress based site may make this easier). Other then that I have some paper work to catch up with and photos to digitally process. Blogs - Odd bits as I discover them Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:12:49 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=244&Itemid=55 ARGH my film broke! I tried to rescue it but due to the lack of facilities I couldn't rescue it. Blogs - Photography Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:43:52 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=243&Itemid=55 Yes free camera stuff for a GOOD home, that doesn't mean first come first served . Click read more for more details Blogs - Photography Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:03:57 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=242&Itemid=55 I mentioned this way back here http://www.richs.me.uk/content/view/233/55/ (http://www.richs.me.uk/content/view/233/55/) Well it's probably about time I finished this project and posted the results. So here we go Click Read More to Continue Blogs - Photography Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:00 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=241&Itemid=49 I've fallen into the trap of not updating this website again. It's not that I don't like doing it I just never have the time these days. I'm going to try and finish up some projects and posts so hopefully the site will show some sign of life. It's not just this website that is getting neglected. The wife claims she never see's me, I don't have much time for photography which is probably just as well as I have a huge backlog of post processing to get through. Blogs - Odd bits as I discover them Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:00 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=51 Originally this was going to be an article about backing up mobile phone and using these techniques to not only backup your phone but to provide productivity tools for small and medium enterprises. (SMEs) This turned out to be a very large article so I decided to separate these articles into. Technical &ndash; Backing up your mobile phone And Technical &ndash; Blackberry on the cheap, OTA for the rest of us. So click on read more to see why and how to back up data on a mobile phone :-). Blogs - Technical Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=240&Itemid=51 The OpenSourceGeek (http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/06/08/dr-and-the-cloud/#comments) recently did a live DR using cloud computing for his website. Read about it at http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/06/08/dr-and-the-cloud/#comments (http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/06/08/dr-and-the-cloud/#comments) Next Friday, my own technical article like back in the old days Next week I cover Mobile Phone Backing up. The the weeks after that I'm planning on Open Source Groupware Alternatives and Blackberry for the rest of us. These will mainly be aimed at SME's. Blogs - Technical Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=238&Itemid=49 Oh c**k, I accidently deleted the database for my website. Sort of luckily I have a backup a few days old but it is missing the latest content. Will try to sort the missing content asap. I can't stress the importance of backups! Blogs - Odd bits as I discover them Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:52:56 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=51 Bless the Opensourcegeek (http://opensourcegeek.org). He saves me having to type up content of my own He has a very interesting article on his first steps into cloud computing. Can be found at http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/05/11/first-steps-in-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-27 (http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/05/11/first-steps-in-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-27) Blogs - Technical Wed, 27 May 2009 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.richs.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=235&Itemid=49 What? I only just realised that? No. Compared to some of the new and recently (in the last year) face lifted personal sites it is starting to look a bit of a mess , even my RSS feeds are ugly. I know the way forward to resolve this as well, all I need to do is: Migrate the site from Joomla 1.x to 1.5.x Upgrade all the components and bridges that the site uses to latest versions that work with Joomla 1.5.x Decide on a new layout with new menus. Find a new Template and modify if required. Heavy testing on the site to ensure that all works as expected. Put new site on this domain. Put the word Beta on the site so people excuse any bugs. And all the above takes quite a bit of time, which is the problem. Also this site doesn't get the amount of content I would like. I'm trying but again a lack of time is causing this. Hopefully the site will get better during the course of the year Blogs - Odd bits as I discover them Wed, 27 May 2009 10:34:01 +0100