Last night I had Sheila and Lee around for a meal and catch up natter. For the food I tried a variant of a stir-fry recipe Fliss taught me. I was quite happy I've finally seem to have got the hang of making Egg Fried Rice without having it all …

I've had a frustrating time with getting some of our init scripts working on both RHEL4 and SLES10. The issues have mostly been to RHEL4's less than stellar LSB implementation. Despite having a compatibility header for chkconfig it still sees the LSB stuff and promptly fails to resolve any of …

There are many ways to prepare for the afternoon session of the 21st Stockport Beer and Cider Festival. I suspect that staying up until 4 in the morning after visiting a few of Manchester's finer drinking establishments followed by a bit of dancing is not one of them. Despite flagging …

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I received a letter from your department detailing that photos have been taken of:

"household waste from your property was incorrectly stored"

The statement is remarkable in the lack of information it imparts as to what my actual offence is. I do however have to commend …

It's easy to make your mind switch off by following a fixed daily routine. Things are likely to go wrong when you mess with that routine even with a few small details. For example my daily commute involves reading the free sheet, listening to the radio on the way in …