Lights Ahoy

Posted on Mon 09 January 2006 in geek

One advantage of the blinding light my camera has for a "flash" is it practically eliminates red-eye. Whether this means I take better pictures or not remains to be seen.


Cool Tools

Posted on Fri 06 January 2006 in geek

One of thew newest extensions I'm now using on all my machines is Feedview. Feedview replaces the default rendering of XML feeds when you click on the raw feed. This is handy for when the Firefox feed parser can't find feeds on a page. Once you click on the feed …


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My God its Full of Pixels

Posted on Fri 06 January 2006 in geek

I'm feeling a little guilty as I told Mufi last night that I'd be coming along to Yoga. I'd forgotten all about the delivery of my previously mentioned shiny toys.

Walking though Manchester city centre carrying two obviously valuable boxes of was only partially nerve wracking (given the blanket CCTV …


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Knocking on my door

Posted on Wed 04 January 2006 in geek

Whilst trying to sort out one of my users connection problems I checked the authentication log on Jack. It turns out various IP addresses in Asia have been knocking on my door since at least the start of December. Time to start pestering my users to ensure they are using …


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Present to Self

Posted on Tue 03 January 2006 in geek

I've just ordered two LCD Monitors for my workstation. A very reasonable ?360 for the pair. I went for width over depth because I think I'll make more use of pixels to the side than bellow. Hopefully the computer will figure out the address to deliver it to by Thursday …


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