Monthly Archives: April 2007

Fat Man Watching

I’m watching Fat Man’s Warning on Channel 4 and it’s fascinating. If you haven’t seen it, keep an eye out for any repeats. It follows American comedian Steve Daly as he tries to educate the people of Britian on the … Continue reading

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Spanish Power

Just a quick word on the Iberdrola / Scottish Power deal which was finalised earlier this week. Does anyone else find it a huge coincidence that on the same day the Chief Executive of Scottish Power, Philip Bowman, announced his … Continue reading

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Praise where it’s due

A few years ago when we moved to a new flat, we decided to replace our old hoover with a shiny new Dyson (the DC04 Silver/Lime model, to be precise). I always liked the idea of Dyson – they seem … Continue reading

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Cracked It!

I’m in the middle of a fairly big Django project, but one of the problems was that I wanted to be able to use the Django admin section (which is brilliant), but wanted it to be easy enough for people … Continue reading

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Warzone 2100

Gaming under Linux has always been an interesting challenge. There are some really decent games out there (Quake4, Doom3, Unreal Tournament 2004, Enemy Territory), but many games don’t get released for Linux. Open Source Gaming is even trickier – all … Continue reading

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Welcome to our new home

Ok – so things might not look any different, but (yet again) we have moved hosting companies. We’ve waved farewell to WebHosting.uk.com and moved over to Dreamhost. The main reason for the move is cost – for only a little … Continue reading

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Coming Home….

Well – this is it. Heather and Mira are coming home from hospital today, so here endeth my online participation for much of the next weeks/months. But it’s all worth it A few more pictures (I promise I won’t go … Continue reading

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Sadville: Ruthy’s Verdict

“Meh” ‘Nuff said… BigAl 

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Sadville, Guild Wars and other online escapades

As I sit here updating my resume again, I’m aware that Ruthy is sitting in the other room downloading the Second Life client. Now, I could have sworn that our second life is taken up by Guild Wars and will … Continue reading

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babyBen

Well – it’s a bit earlier than expected, but the offspring has arrived! Heather started getting contractions at around 1:30am this morning. We went into the hospital around 8.15, and were put into the maternity ward at 9.15am. At around … Continue reading

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