Free Stuff

Posted on Fri 08 August 2008 in general

We are up in Manchester tomorrow and early Saturday to do the final clear out of bits and pieces from the cellar. A bunch of stuff is going to the tip but if anyone wants any of the following then please contact me.

  • Assorted random bits of computer stuff (ex-Glyn …

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Caffinated Win!

Posted on Thu 07 August 2008 in geek

Today I figured out how to make proper frothy head on works new coffee machine. I suspect I may have started drinking coffee because it gives me the opportunity to play with new toys ;-)


Messanger

Posted on Wed 06 August 2008 in geek

It has been mentioned that people don't see me on IM any more. By IM they mean MSN messenger and they are right. Some time ago MSN died on me and I've limited myself to the Google and LJ Jabber services. I've just tried re-activating my [STRIKEOUT:Shite]Hotmail account …


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Meters

Posted on Wed 06 August 2008 in misc • Tagged with development

I've been playing with emacsclient in an effort to make things like editing blog entries faster by re-using existing emacs sessions. It's almost doing what I want it to do but there doesn't seem to be a way of checking if there is already a server running withing emacs itself …


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Folked Out

Posted on Mon 04 August 2008 in general

Yesterday was the last night of the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival. We left in the early evening not long after Mufi and TJ headed back to Manchester as we were quite Folked Out after 4 days of festival. However a good time had been had by all and we saw …


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