In the old days when I ran my server from my basement I automatically had access to my home machines. This was useful for all sorts of things but mainly allowing me to monitor my Gentoo system while it re-built the world. However nowadays this is trickier, especially when I’m using my work provided pipe [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2010
Stagged
I returned from a long weekend in a rather sunny York yesterday morning. I am now apparently prepared with all the techniques and knowledge required to become a loving and supportive husband in September. Both my brother and dad did well at the Bridge scoring a number of crucial rubbers. The Batman through the ages [...]
RIP: PS3
My PS3 died last night with the dreaded Yellow Light of Death (or at least it briefly flashes yellow before turning itself off). Unfortunately it won’t stay on long enough to eject the copy of GTA currently stuck in the drive. It also seems the DRM will render any effort to transfer the 250gb drive [...]
The Lodger
I finally caught up with the latest Doctor Who last night (drinking/football had over-ruled the Saturday showing). I thought it was a fantastic episode, certainly better than the last two. Was I the only one who thought the errant device might have been the Master’s TARDIS (or at a push some other Time Lords TARDIS)? [...]
A weekend of fresh air and beer
Today’s weather has returned to a sort of grey overcast but not overly cold averaging day which seems very out of place for June. Luckily the weather over the weekend was much better. We had Jeff and Phil + family visiting for the weekend. Luckily the summer event calender threw up a local event which [...]
Dunkirk, as it happens
It’s interesting to see how much of a shock the Dunkirk Evacuation was to British. Although the start of war was noted by Orwell he quickly moved back to documenting his small holding activities and egg production. However as the B.E.F. was beaten back to their eventual humiliation Orwell writes of growing talk about the [...]
Openness and Transparency
One of the things that I found encouraging about the Tory manifesto was they seemed to get the concept of government transparency and open data. While news about top civil service pay is what hit the headlines yesterday the new directive to civil servants is much wider. While the last government should be saluted for [...]
