The Ark of Truth

Posted on Thu 05 June 2008 in general

Fliss and I watched Stargate: The Ark of Truth last night. It's a made for TV movie that wraps up the plot from the end of season 10 of SG1. Fliss couldn't take it seriously given she had no background in the last 10 seasons of plot. I think the …


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Life without Broadband

Posted on Tue 03 June 2008 in geek • Tagged with iplayer, mobile, t-mobile

Since the move down we have been without broadband. In fact without a fixed line we are subject to the whims of the mobile phone networks. Hopefully (landlords assent and trees permitting) I'll be able to get super-fast broadband through my works test network in Cambridge. However we have managed …


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Command Line Google

Posted on Tue 03 June 2008 in geek • Tagged with surfraw

I have learnt to love the command line. GUI's may make things easy to find but they suck at expressing complex things efficiently (e.g. "show me every file that I've changed in the last hour and it less the 100kb"). So this cool CLI interface to Google caught my …


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Travel, Parties and TV

Posted on Mon 02 June 2008 in general

Things are starting to pick up at work as we get close to a delivery date (to testing) of the first cut of our product. None the less I had time for a flying visit to Manchester for fun and frolics.

As Fliss wasn't coming up (and Friday driving rarely …


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Early Birds

Posted on Thu 29 May 2008 in general

Fliss gets up quite early now to get the early train into London. As a result my 8.10 last minute warning alarm to get out of bed is a little to late. I left the house at about 8.25 this morning and the cycle to work really only …


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