I have a new hosted Xen box in Germany now. I decided that it was worth the rather small hosting fee to have at least one box I could configure that was unlikely to have it's incomming and outgoing ports filtered, limited or otherwise manipulated by consumer ISPs. I didn't …

Fliss and I spent the weekend in Scotland, in Newton Stewart to be precise. The gathering was an annual event to celebrate the birthdays of two of Fliss' friends from her days at Edinburgh. The 22 or so people had exclusively hired out the local youth hostel and provided a …

I continue to gain confidence with (Emacs) Lisp. I used to have a hacked up (my-find) function that worked reasonably well but was a bit flaky and capable of missing stuff in other languages. It turns out it's faster to ask git a lot of these questions if your working …

Lee noticed I haven't been "on-line" for ages. What actually has happened is that I stopped using my various Yahoo IM accounts as they kept getting spammed every time I logged on. My MSN/Hotmail account seems to have died a while ago and the password I used to use …

It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture is still causing ructions in the news. Sadly it has lead to a great deal of hostile comment, most of which from people who have never read the text of lecture but see it as a chance to put the boot in …