Overlay this

Posted on Mon 04 December 2006 in geek

I had a quick play with Democracy last night on my laptop. I've now added to my main box (using the very handy overlay concept). At first blush its just an integrated video player which can slurp stuff of things like YouTube and Google Video. Of course it's ambitions are …


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Spanners

Posted on Mon 04 December 2006 in geek

You would think that B&Q would stock 24mm or 26mm spanners given that you need to tighten the bits on standard stock 15mm pipe fittings. It was a bit of a pain but I managed to get everything capped off nicely. The plan to remove the old toilet was …


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All I want for Christmas is.....

Posted on Sat 02 December 2006 in geek

....an adaptor for my K800i the provides a 3.5mm mini jack. I don't mean one of the overpriced Sony branded "Walkman" headphones with added 3.5mm jack. I mean the little attaching fly leads I found in the Orange shop but the guy wouldn't sell me without a new …


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AFFIRMED and ADOPTED in its entirety

Posted on Thu 30 November 2006 in geek

And finally this put a smile on my face before going to bed.

UPDATE: And so didthis


Git and CVS

Posted on Thu 30 November 2006 in geek

Given we have shipped 1.0 the pressure to get changes into the code base has abated a little. I've spent a large chunk of the day trying to work out how to get Git and CVS to play well together. I'm convinced by the power of mini atomic commits …


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