Monthly Archives: June 2008

A New Zippo

strictly speaking another new Zippo. Considering these things have a lifetime guarantee on them I’m getting a bit sick of buying new ones. My previous lighter had managed a previously unheard of life of 4 years and 2 months and … Continue reading

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KITTENS!!!

KITTEN WATCH 2008 – Week 4 I’m sure you all follow my Flickr feed … right? and if you do you’ll know that Zumi has pre-empted my plans to kidnap her kittens. She’d had them buried in a rather inaccessible … Continue reading

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As easy as APC

Since our flat is prone to a the occasional utility outage (actually it’s difficult to think of a week since we moved in when the water, electricity and heating have all been working, all of the time) and since I … Continue reading

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14 months and counting

An interesting snippet for those who wonder about the resilience of Linux in Enterprise. My personal webserver (the big one, not the POS 2000 running this site) has now been up for 422 days with reboot or (internal) downtime! That’s … Continue reading

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Back from Paris

5 days of traveling on trains (how is it possible for France, and the rest of Europe come to think of it, to get train travel so right when Britain gets it so so wrong?), speed tourism (belting round the … Continue reading

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Everyone should be on Twitter

Ahaha! Techy evangelism abounds at XSet this afternoon. Starting with one of the most accessible nerd tools on the interwebs. For those who don’t know what Twitter is I’ll provide a brief overview: Imagine a system whereby you could automatically … Continue reading

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Bash Mnemonics

Whilst doing my daily wander around various Linux servers I have a couple of handy memory joggers for commanly used commands: List all directory contents with human readable file sizes: ls -hal HAL – the all seeing slightly homicidal computer … Continue reading

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One out, X in

A tricky post to title. Friday saw two events which (to the best of my understandning) occured more or less at the same time. The first, was the passing of the eldest of my family’s cats – Lucy – who … Continue reading

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