The blog of Steve Root

Water Bills rise in price – I still think its cheap

2 December 2004

Today, OFWAT (the government body that ensures the water companies in the UK are acting responsibly) announced that water bills will be rising across the UK. The news media all started saying how bad it was and that the water companies made 1.4 billion (or some such figure) and therefore didn’t need to raise the prices anyway. As is typical with the media when they report this type of story, they fail to mention half the relevant facts. So, lets go find them on the internet and come to our own conclusion (or at least, you’ll get to read my opinion).
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Coldfusion MX is no fun today 🙁

1 December 2004

As some of you know, my webserver runs coldfusion which keeps the business site ticking over nicely. Well, normally it does, but just recently it seems to be playing up and the only way I discover this is when the web pages no longer work.
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Image Discovery

29 November 2004

I’ve just discovered how easy it is to add images to entries on this blog! The first image is nothing more interesting than the logo of Movable Type (the software I’m using to run this blog). One really neat touch is that once you’ve selected and uploaded a file (you chose from a windows style popup that lets you look though the files on your computer) it then gives you the code you need to copy and paste into your entry. Very smart.

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