In an attempt to leave our respective comfort zones, Ruth and I have been trying each others specialism in their spare time. Ruth's been having adventures installing and running a GNU/Linux based system, and I've been designing and building a site using Joomla! 1.5

Amongst various issues I've encountered, I found that enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL's broke my new site. Rather than a nicely formatted site, resplendant with images the site returned plain text in a column on the right hand side of a white page!

Imagine you wake up in the morning and you feel kinda cranky.  Lots of things happened yesterday, some good and some bad.  You're not quite sure what's making you feel cranky, but if you knew, you'd be able to sort it out and feel better again.  It's pretty hard doing this when you've got all the pressures of daily life bearing down on you - make the breakfast, get the kids ready for school, do the school run, sit through those important business meetings etc.  Wouldn't it be great if you could start the day with none of these pressures on you, with just the minimum you need to function, to allow you to sort through what happened, and work out a way to fix it!
If only life was so simple!  Fortunately, Windows has such a feature, and it's called Safe Mode.