Events dear boy, events...

Posted on Mon 22 November 2004 in general • Tagged with wendyhouse

Well that was a pretty busy weekend. Well busy-ish, I came up with some half arsed excuse to laze around at home of Friday night instead of going to the gym, but otherwise busy :-)

Went to Wendyhouse <http://www.thewendyhouse.org/> in Leeds for Geoff's <http://www.livejournal.com/users …


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Deviation from Default

Posted on Fri 19 November 2004 in general

It didn't take much convincing for me to skip the Gym last night and head into town for a few drinks with Lee and Sheila. I haven't seen Sheila for a while as she has been busy climbing mountains and beating up black belts which leaves little time for our …


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I've got the Power!

Posted on Thu 18 November 2004 in geek, general

Thanks to the ever helpful Mr Parker of CCL Computers my new AMD64 system will soon be winging it way towards me. Of course taking full advantage of the system will require running native 64 bit apps. My current desktop href="http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/101/powerpack-plus">Mandrake
has …

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addrclean.pl

Posted on Wed 17 November 2004 in general

Today's geek is brought to you by the power of perl. From time to time (probably because I sync my Palm in 2 places) my main email client href="http://www.novell.com/products/evolution/">Evolution
generates duplicate contact records. This is a bug in the Evolution sync code which …

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Looking Forward

Posted on Wed 17 November 2004 in general

I was so bored yesterday. Even with digital satellite there is only so much daytime TV you can watch. I did catch up on Enterprise which has a mid-season 3 part story with href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000653/">Brent Spiner guest staring. They managed to tie in threads …


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