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Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen

// February 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // Tech

A handy tool for comparing fonts side by side – Link

Icky Lurgy Badness

// February 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

I’m not very well … haven’t been since Sunday to be perfectly honest.

The nice doctor person has decided that I have a “viral infection” which is making me feel mostly like crap.

This means I’ve been signed off work for the week whilst the anti-biotics kick in and take care of the nasty lurking in my system.

On the plus side – I’m catching up on some reading and some TV.

More from me once my temperature is back into double digits.

Sunday night is burger night

// February 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

(Note: I meant to post this on Sunday evening but totally forgot about it until now)

Every so often I get the desire to create something tasty in the kitchen and as I’ve got free reign tonight I thought I’d make some beef burgers.
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I’m Microsoft Word!

// February 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

You are Word 2007!
It would be tough to find a book, poem, document or report that you haven’t read. You love the spoken and written word, and you thrive on information. You are known for being verbose, but eloquent. Among the four 2007 Office applications, you possess the most chutzpah, particularly because you know what “chutzpah” means and have added it to your own Office dictionary. Your vocabulary is constantly growing; even the latest buzz words won’t slow down your spell-checker. Secretly you may admit that you miss having Clippy looking over your shoulder. With the new Microsoft Office Word 2007, you can spend more time doing your favorite thing – writing – and less time formatting. You have always been effective at communicating and collaborating, and now you’ll find it more efficient and enjoyable than ever. Your favorite new feature in Office 2007 may well be the new blogging tool in Word 2007.

I agree with a lot of that, but NOT the bit about clippy – that little fucker deserved to be wiped!

If you’re interested you can find out which of the Ribbon Adorned new office apps you are.

Apple roundup – iPod Nano and Mac Book Pro

// February 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

Gadget boy is back baby! Oh yes, and the latest additions to the Dudley cache are both Appley goodies.
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Valentine’s Day

// February 15th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

Been, gone, nuff said.

The 20 Minute Guide to PC Security

// February 14th, 2007 // No Comments » // Tech

A good over view – Link

24 Season 1 / 2

// February 14th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

Beep beep, beep beep.

I must admit that I was slow to jump on the 24 band wagon. To be fair I’m not a big fan of scheduled TV preferring to watch digitised stuff at my leisure and as I’ve only recently (the past 2 years or so) had the infrastructure in place to grab shows on a weekly basis anything that occurred pre 2005 is unlikely to have made my watch list.

But as 24 seems to be the big thing again I thought I’d give it a go.

Warning, there may well be spoilers from the 1st and 2nd seasons in here after the jump…
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So how’s that migration going then Rob?

// February 13th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal, Tech

Not bad, not brilliant either.

XSet is tied up (along with another paid client domain) by a registrar who seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet so that’s a pending Nominet override then.

The others are moving slowly along and the DB stuff is working fairly well. Any issues have mostly been permissions based or due to Apache (mis)configuration. So far I’m about half way through (11 still to do) and only a couple of those are in any way complicated.

That said I’m glad I won’t have to do this again any time soon.

My iPod is trying to kill me

// February 13th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

Things you don’t want to here on a wet and windy morning whilst perched on a very powerful motorbike … the metallic, opening bars of Blur’s Song 2