27-Dec-2011: Upgraded :)
Much to my surprise the upgrade to this server operating system (as prompted by the failure back in August) went swimmingly 
Welcome to Debian stable (squeeze), and hopefully no surprises for hosted sites.. if anything isn't working as before, do please hassle Phlash..
29-Aug-2011: Weekend trouble
Apologies to everyone for the absence of ashbysoft.com for the last couple of days - and thanks to Scott at Atomwide for getting us back running again. We are considering the failure as a hint that it's time to upgrade the server again.. some planning required!
29-Apr-2011: ISP switchover, mostly
Yesterday our hosting company (http://atomwide.com) changed their ISP, so everything in their data centre had to change IP address, including us. It all went well, apart from me forgetting to save the new DNS zone file for ashbysoft.com at my DNS provider (http://gandi.net) until about 8pm -doh! Thanks for the smooth service Scott
17-Apr-2011: Digital recording at last!
Whilst playing with Ubuntu on the PC in TheShed studio I finally discovered a way to get digital audio input to work reliably using our impressively cheap CMI-8738 based Trust sound card (£15). This has been bugging me for years.
12-Feb-2011: ZTE-G X930 Insides
Tom broke the USB connector off his phone, so I had to disassemble it (no I really did!), and took the opportunity to take some photos ZTE-G X930 Insides
08-Apr-11 Update: I finally soldered a new connector back on - there aren't many distributors of micro-USB surface mount sockets in the uk - just Farnell it seems.
30-Jan-2011: Rivendell Hackery
Yeah I know, you all thought the site was dead and stuff... anyhow, as part of my role looking after the tech at Felixstowe Radio, I maintain the installation of Rivendell, one of our play-out software packages, which needed some attention on Windows.. gory details here.