Category: Wayback Retrieval
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Cutting my electricity usage
Iโve been bitten by the โhow much electricity am I using?โ bug recently โ 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…
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Windows XP, VPNs and DNS
I have a work-supplied laptop. Until this week, whenever I activated the PPTP VPN to work, I was able to resolve all of our internal servers by DNS name. This is good, it means I can navigate our network at work without remembering IP addresses. This week Iโm on call. I had to VPN in…
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Whoa, it’s April
And mid-way through April at that. UberCon X is next weekend, and Iโll be going – carry-on is already packed with the camera and some basic clothing (in case my checked luggage vanishes). Train and bus tickets are purchased, just have to arrange the journey to the local train station. Been playing with Lightroom 2,…
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Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
Went karting last night with the guys from work (work paid). It was a blast, but Iโm paying for it this morning. My boss, ever so smartly, has taken today off – but some of us have to be in to keep the department running! Arms hurt, back hurts (bruised on the spinal area), shoulder…
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Cars are black holes on land
As the title says, cars are black holes on land. Money just disappears when it comes in contact with a car, especially an older car. Case in point – I took my car to a local garage to get a full service done on it. They called me back later that day and said they…
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On MS Exchange and meeting rooms
In the current job, Iโm dealing with Microsoft-based administrator more than I ever have before. I donโt mind too much, it gives me a few more skills, and another bullet point or three on the resume. Today, however, Exchange has been driving me batty. We have Exchange 2003 – itโs not bad once itโs had…