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If Evolution is true, shouldn’t the human race have died out?

I’ve just come from the hospital is with my brand new little baby boy who is, at the time of writing, 3 days old.
Now I don’t know if you’ve looked at babies much in your life, and until now, I hadn’t either, but as cute as they are, they’re really quite extraordinarily pathetic. Don’t get [...]

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Are You Thinking Of A Career Change?

If you’re thinking of a career change you’re probably wondering whether it can really be done?
I can tell you from personal experience, it can.
Where Do You Begin?
Well, the biggest question you’ll need to answer first is “What is it that I want to change to?”. This might not be as easy as it sounds. If [...]

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Running A Small Business – Here’s Why You Should Consider Insurance

I’ve run a small business from home for the past 6 or 7 years, in various forms. I thought I had a good handle on the various risks that could be involved with running a business, such as IR35 legislation in the UK, through to Public Liability, Professional Indemnity and of course Safe Workplace risk [...]

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Be Fire Ready, If You’re In a Bushfire Prone Area

Introduction – Who Should Be Fire Ready?
This article is a little odd for my blog perhaps, but there’s a reason. Actually there’s a couple of reasons.
I went through the Victorian bushfire last year, the worst natural disaster in Australian history where 173 people died and thousands were displaced from their homes. Many of those still [...]

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CS-Cart, A Very Excellent E-Commerce Engine

I’ve been in the Web Development Business now for more years than I care to remember. In that time I’ve worked with plenty of E-Commerce engines, some of which were entirely bespoke before ‘off the shelf’ solutions such as osCommerce or Magento existed.
In more recent years I’ve been using osCommerce. I took a look at [...]