Oh Danny Boy....

Posted on Thu 22 April 2004 in general

I got back from a business trip to Dublin yesterday. I was attending a conference on university security as an exhibitor. Unfortunately I was kept quite busy so didn't get a chance to explore the city. However we did have a couple a pre-arranged nights out by the conference so …

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Me am run!

Posted on Tue 13 April 2004 in general

Just got back from the gym having broken another personal record. Once on the running machine I ran straight through 30 minutes at my full running pace (9 km/hr) without slowing down for any breathers. This totaled 4.5 km (almost 5 after the cool down period) and a …


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Purveyor of fine herbs and rare powders....

Posted on Tue 13 April 2004 in general

Its been a while since I last updated my blog so I suppose I'd better contribute to the general frothing with regards to Maelstrom :-)


Well I can summarise my weekend as being a great one. I did a load of role-playing, achieved things and ended up with more of shiny …

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Posted on Mon 29 March 2004 in general

Today I was hacking about with the Linux Trace Toolkit in an attempt to measure some latencies in my code. Although the toolkit comes with a nice graphical utility that allows you to look through events and see what is going it isn't very good for finding particular instances occur …

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Purty desktop...

Posted on Thu 25 March 2004 in general

I've just had a quick play with some SVG themes for href=http://www.gnome.org>Gnome. I've installed the href=http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/theme.php>svg themes package and used Nuvola on my desktop. It looks soooo pretty now ;-)

Screenshot of my desktop at work