Change of plans

Posted on Fri 12 November 2004 in general

I was planning to rise early this morning and pack all my LARP kit into the car so I could head to href="http://www.songofsteel.org">SoS straight after work. However the events of last night (the UMIST beer festival) meant I crawled out of bed around 9, stared …

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Do the Scan, Man

Posted on Thu 11 November 2004 in general

This afternoon I was mostly installing href="http://www.networkassociates.com/us/products/mcafee/antivirus/fileserver/linuxshield.htm">LinuxShield
on my desktop and the work servers. I've been instructed to be diplomatic when dealing with IT so I just hunkered on down to it. The install actually comes as an …

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Book Meme

Posted on Wed 10 November 2004 in general

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23
  3. Find the fifth sentence
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.

(Or cheat and look at Chapter 3, Unary and Binary Operators.)

Hmmm, well it is a geek book.

Rant mode subsiding

Posted on Wed 10 November 2004 in general

I have just returned from a 450 mile circumnavigation of the country. I could go into great detail ranting about drivers on the M6 and the vast tracts of space they leave on the inside lane. I could discuss my general loathing of the traffic down south and the average …


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Food and beer, beer and food

Posted on Mon 08 November 2004 in general

I get back from a weekend in the bosom of my family to find a series of gossip worthy events occurred without my presence. Luckily I'm not the sort of person that is interested in gossip ;-)

The weekend was relaxing and good. Much free beer consumed, minor open source evangelism …

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