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Monthly Archives: August 2004
In memory of….
I learned today that mdwatts, who was one of my fellow moderators over at JustLinux.com passed away on the 25th, after a long battle with cancer. He was a friend, an inspiration, and 100% dedicated to the forum – over … Continue reading
Managing the comic collection
Over the weekend, after dragging all my comics from Peter’s flat to my flat, I realised that there must be a better way of tracking my comic collection. Previously I slung them all in a spreadsheet but it was getting … Continue reading
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Back to the grind
The first day back at work since getting married and I don’t think I can be any more relaxed then I am at the moment. There a fair amount for me to do today, and it will all get done. … Continue reading
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Is Linux too good to be true?
Very interesting article in The Independent looking at Linux. The article starts in usual fashion – the author had problems with his flat panel screen and, typically, his ‘win’modem*. After this, however, things get a little more interesting – the … Continue reading
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On Apples and BSD
I’ve become a reasonably avid listener of The Linux Link Tech Show over the last few months. Especially with the summer sabbatical of LUGRadio (link currently down) and the seeming demise of SLUGRadio, I have been tuning in pretty much … Continue reading
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Married life: an update
Well campers, the wife (whoo, I’m married!) and I are back from our wee holiday in Tunisia. So here’s an update of what we’ve been up to… The Wedding (Friday 13th August) Ruth and I got married. Now there’s a … Continue reading
Some interesting sites
Just found a new site at BrowseHappy.com – similar in many ways to Switch2Firefox.com, but offering opinions on 4 browsers – Firefox, Mozilla, Opera and Safari. The emphasis, again, is on the fact that IE continues to remain insecure. Definitely … Continue reading
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New Charge Development – Cell Church
This weekend I presented a short seminar on Cell Church, at a conference for the Church of Scotland’s New Charge Developments. Given the hectic weekend I had, I didn’t have time to print off any handouts (or even my notes!) … Continue reading
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Call me heartless…..
…..but there are a couple of things that are getting on my wick in the media these last few weeks. 1. Sueing the government for the death of soldiers. OK, so maybe the war in Iraq was not what everyone … Continue reading
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Cricket
I remember, as a young child, not being able to sit through a football match on the telly without getting bored. As I grew older, it became much easier. I think I’m going the same way with cricket. Once upon … Continue reading
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Fun with Traffic Wardens
Had an interesting night last night – spent some time clearing out a flat for Westend Letting, during which time some traffic wardens passed by and we had a wee chat with one of them; he was a nice guy, … Continue reading
It’s the day!
Yep, it’s today. There was no “1 Day to go…” post yesterday with all the stuff we still had to do. But it should be sufficient to note that with yesterday ending with the rehersal and coming back here to … Continue reading
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How much does First make?
Some days I get the bus along to Partick to catch the tube. And I got to wondering – how much extra money does First make by not giving out change? Lets do some maths: My trip is £0.85, but … Continue reading
2 Days to go…
And no panicing today… yet. Yesterday Ruth and I went to the Passport Agency to apply for our passports (as opposed to a chicken and sweetcorn pie…). The whole process went without a hitch, and the passports were ready this … Continue reading
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Dungeoneering for beginners
Doing some adventure game planning to keep my mind off the approaching nuptials… So with 90+ locations and a lot of them re-mapped with more details I’ll share what I’ve done location-wise. There is: a creepy forest, a mad scientist’s … Continue reading
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3 Days to go…
So much for not panicing. Last night I had my first serious panic attack. I was meant to be seeing Ruth last night, but couldn’t make it because my knee was hurting really badly. So, I stayed in thinking I … Continue reading
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Life goes on
Well, its been a busy couple of days, so time to post some stuff: Perl Due to the restrictions of what AAH have Python-wise on their webserver (currently limited to Python 1.5, and no simple way to install new modules, … Continue reading
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4 Days to go…
Well, with only four days to go before the wedding everything is feeling quite surreal. And I understand that this is something to be savoured but I’m sure the week will fly in. And I’ve got the feeling that it’s … Continue reading
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Al’s Stag Night
I had my Stag Night on Saturday Night. My only advice to anyone who’s getting married and the Stag night is approaching is: don’t do it. It’s guaranteed that something bad will happen to you in the name of comedy. … Continue reading
TinyURL
I don’t know if you’ve already seen this, but a great little free service can be found at TinyURL.com – basically they let you create a little tiny URL, something like http://tinyurl.com/6 – instead of a huge URL from somewhere … Continue reading
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