At work, a day doesn't go by where the old Linux vs Microsoft debate pops up. Its a 50/50 split, half of the room using the Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) and the other half using Windows XP, with one or two Mac's hanging around.

Now we all have our own personal opinion on what we should be using and why. I won't be going into the pros and cons of each, as this isn't the point of this post.

My setup at home consists of one custom built desktop running Windows XP and one Dell laptop running Windows Vista. I do most of my work on my desktop and also use it for gaming, which is why for me its not a good idea to switch to Ubuntu on there as the games won't run on Linux, there is the option of running the games through WINE but I really can't see the point off that right now. But with my laptop, all I use that for is work which is coding based.

When it comes to Linux I am a novice to say the least, I know a few basic commands, but since all the servers we use at work are Linux based, and my VPS is linux based, I really need to learn how to use it more. So I came up with the idea of switching my Windows Vista laptop over to using Ubuntu and try it out to see what all the fuss is about.

I plan on doing the switch this weekend at some point, so I will post updates on how it goes and how easy it is to do the switch. And as a final few words, I would like to say that I have not found any problems yet using Windows Vista, for me its run perfect every time I have used it.

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After watching the classic Boom headshot css movie I saw on the right off youtube a 'Paintball headshot' clip. Well since we are going paint balling at work in a week or two i thought I would take a look. After watching, we had the whole office in stitches!

Back to work for me!

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Right then, you may or may not know that I am developing a project called HowBad.is.it. One of the things that was planned for the website is a cinema postcode search. You type in your UK postcode, and ping, back comes a list of the cinemas nearest you.

My initial ideas were that I needed to find / work out some complex function that will convert a postcode into the easting and northing co-ordinates. But once I had set off into Google seeing what I can find, I actually realised I was going in compleatly the wrong direction.

After a bit of digging, it turns out it is actually quite simple, all you need is a table of all the UK postcodes with their co-ordinates. When the user enters their postcode, you find the postcode in your table and return the co-ordinates, et voila, you have the basics of your postcode search.

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Where I work there are a few of us in the office that follow the daily updates from the LOLCats website icanhascheezburger.

Its a simple website, powered by good old wordpress, you can upload a funny photo and caption it and the best ones make it onto the homepage. There have been some really good ones recently on there so I feel I have to share these!

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Since my last post back in Feburary the UK has had their eurovision voting and I was pleasantly supprised to see that they had changed the voting process. Instead of sending 6 acts to the public vote, 3 Judges choose the best 4 acts to go the public vote, therefor (in theory) stopping any bad acts going through.

On the whole I thought the judges did quite well, other then the sending through of the Romanian singer Simona Armstrong, who was dressed a bit like an ostrich. I thought the whole point of the eurovision is to send someone from your own country, so if she is from Romania then how does she qualify to represent the UK, all very strange to me!

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