Blog
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What did we do before eBay?
Just bought a broken laptop of the same model as mine. It's apparently working but has broken screen and no keyboard. I bought it solely for parts as the little cable between the motherboard and scree…
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Back on the bike. At last!
Finally got back on the bike today. Foot seems pretty much healed now, so I can ride again. Of course, luck being what it is, that will likely mean a wet ride home in London Spring drizzle. Was a nice…
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Weekend in Aisne
We got back from a long weekend in Aisne, Northern France. Nine of us went on the Eurostar on Friday afternoon, hiring a minibus in Lille. Great time had by all! Beautiful weather on Saturday and Sund…
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Selling on eBay is strangely fun
I'm selling our old telly on eBay. I find myself checking it every hour or so, just to see what the bids are up to. Scarily addictive, I think.
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Looks like I'll have to work for big companies
Well it looks like when I eventually return to Australia, I'll have to work for companies with more than 100 employees. Otherwise I could be unfairly dismissed with no right to challenge it. So where'…
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Best football match ever
Last night was the Champions League final between AC Milan and Liverpool. It will go down in history as one of the most exciting games of football (for the Aussies and Yanks, football is the game wher…
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New job.
I just resigned from my job. I'm moving to Searchspace who make anti-fraud and anti-money laundering software. Quite looking forward to new challenges. Very much looking forward to using Framemaker ag…
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Apparently my foot is fine
Went for my appointment at the hospital's fracture clinic this morning. After an x-ray, the doctor said it should be fine now for me to start doing sport and the like. Disturbingly, he said that the x…
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Springtime for Hitler
Went to see The Producers last night with Dad, Holly and Rachel. What a fantastic musical, best I've seen in years. Absolutely hysterical. Couldn't recommend it more. Highlight: the scene with dancing…
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Weekend of Ubuntu
I spent the weekend tweaking the Ubuntu install on my new laptop and installing Ubuntu on my main desktop. It's very very slick, and unlike Knoppix the power save modes on the monitor actually work. T…
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Ubuntu is fantastic
I scored a nice laptop this week, though it has a problem with the screen and the cable connecting to it. Hopefully I can repair that. It's a PII 300, so quite a nice machine and very compact and ligh…
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Bloody Oracle bollocks
I've just spent most of the morning helping our DBAs install the Oracle client software on a freshly installed Debian box. Why, oh why, do you need to run some dodgy Java GUI installer to install a fs…
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Amazing chocolate cake
On the weekend I made this amazing chocolate cake from Nigella Lawson's site for Fiona's birthday. Fantastic cake, really rich and yummy. Went down well. I did the orange-flavoured option and it worke…
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Australia Uber Alles
The Australian Attorney-General's Department is saying " Individual human rights need to be rethought in the age of terrorism and more consideration given to community rights ". I'm sure I've heard so…
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Woken up with a Tory MP
Well, this morning I woke up with a Tory MP. It feels worse because I've actually met the smarmy bastid and voted Labour despite Bliar. Worse still, Saddam-loving George "permatan" Galloway succeeded…
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Hey it's not just stupid me
On the London Perl Mongers list right now there's a discussion about mobile phones. Turns out I'm not the only idiot who has put a mobile phone through the wash. Yay!
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Vote early, vote often
So it's the big day. I trundled down to the Indian Cultural Centre around the corner to do my civic duty this morning. Xed the appropriate (Melanie Smallman, Labour) box and headed out. Dead easy, can…
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Why does technical marketing have to be meaningless?
We're looking around for bug tracking software at my work, so this involves a lot of research into the available tools. It seems that the web sites of most software companies are written by and for pe…
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Yay for Microsoft!
Say what you will about their (lousy) software, Microsoft make great hardware. On Wednesday my eight-year old Microsoft Natural Keyboard finally died, the Enter key stopped working. So I ordered anoth…
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Free at last!
Finally I'm free of Network Solutions and their incompetence. Now registered until November 2010 at GoDaddy.