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Here’s To The Crazy Ones

Today the world lost a visionary. One of the few people who have truly changed the world as we know it. Steve Job’s died aged 56 after a long-term battle with cancer. Though he has moved on, his legend will echo through the ages. R.I.P Steve… “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels....

Free VPN for life! Access US-Only services such as Hulu from anywhere!

If your like me, and situated outside of the US, you will have no doubt been disappointed that services such as Hulu are not available outside of the US due to geolocation IP restrictions.Luckily for us, this is all about to change with SuperVPN.net offering a completely “free for life” VPN (Or Virtual Private Network) service....

I Got Tumblr…

Ok, I caved… I created a Tumblr account today after seeing a colleague’s and a fellow Tweeter’s. I figured that since I rarely have the time (or the will-power) to write a full blog post here, that I would start a Tumblr blog so that I can start posting random musings (ones that don’t fit...

Newsdemon – Awesome Usenet Provider!

Just a quick one today to talk about a service that many of you may not have heard of – Usenet. What the hell is Usenet I hear you cry? Well, back in the good old days when the word ‘internet’ wasn’t even recognized by most, a service was created called Usenet. Usenet was essentially...

500+ Email Domains Your App Should Block

Whilst searching the net for a list of spam email addresses I should block in my web apps (TDY.ME and Social Magpie), I came across a huge list of email provider domains that are either, A: Disposable email account providers or B: Email account providers linked to spam. I thought this would be a great...

Custom “Latest Posts” Function For WordPress

While developing my new theme for WordPress (The one your looking at now!), I came across the need to get the 5 latest blog posts and format the output accordingly. Now, WordPress has a built in function called wp_get_archives which is great for just getting the latest blog posts and displaying them as is (this...

New Design Comes To Fruition

If you are reading this post then you will have no doubt noticed that the new design for tomglenn.co.uk has arrived! I will admit, this has been the goal for my site since I first created it a few years ago. Somehow I managed to get side tracked along the way and through neglect it...

Back To Work And New Home!

I haven’t posted a blog post in about a month now, so I thought I would give you guys who still read this thing a bit of an update. Since leaving University, I have managed to bag myself a software development position back at Marishal Thompson (Where I used to work before University!). This is...

Casa De Los Suenos – Holiday From Hell

A few months have passed now since my family and I went on holiday to Benalmadena in Spain for 3 weeks. We had been so looking forward to this holiday as it had been quite a long time since our last visit to Spain and we were all very eager to go back there! In...

University Finished! What Next?

Well it seems like forever since I last made a blog post here, for which I apologize! I have been extremely busy finishing off my assignments and I am now completely finished with education, woohoo! Overall I feel my final year at University went great! I have not yet had my results back for semester...