Author: Duncan
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Networking, GW Fest and stepping up a gear
Decided to go to the Great Western Festival (in aid of the regional air ambulance) last weekend. You’d think that having spent an entire weekend there, accumulating several hundred photos to process, I wouldn’t be going back so soon to take even more photos. Well, I’m not always that logical, and some of the bands […]
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Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 3
Sunday afternoon saw me returning to the Great Western pub for the Americana / blues bands they were hosting. This time I carried my green chair with me, as the prospect of spending another 8 hours sitting on the wooden benches at the pub was not very enticing. Acts included the Dustbowl String Band (featuring […]
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Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 2
Having rolled home around 00:45 on Saturday (Oysterband ran long due to encores), I slept in a bit. Decided to wander over to the Festival around 11:30 A.M., and looked for lunch. Fortune smiled, and there was a Caribbean food stand offering curried mutton, saltfish fritters, jerk chicken and more. Enquired after the curried mutton, […]
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Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 1
It was the Warwick Folk Festival over the weekend just gone, and I decided that I should enjoy summer while it’s here. Nipped down to the ticket office on Friday afternoon, purchased a ticket for the entire weekend, and then zipped home after work to grab the D80, lenses, flash, and battery packs. Hopped on […]
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Autostarting Glassfish on CentOS
I’ve been working with Glassfish recently, from the system administration point of view. First task, after getting a good build with Maven (doing it with basic rpm methods netted me a massive dependency list, including things like Firefox!), was to write an init script so that Glassfish can be integrated into the CentOS boot sequence. […]
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Cutting my electricity usage
I’ve been bitten by the ‘how much electricity am I using?’ bug recently – prompted by looking at my 6-monthly statement from my current electricity supplier. $work happens to have a utilities component to it, so I asked if I could borrow one of our in-the-house whole-house electricity monitors to see if an offer for […]