Ramblings
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Back in the coding saddle
Well, one of the things I expected to happen with the job change last year was the return of my energy to write code for random projects. After several years of coding for a living, any desire to pick up a keyboard and hack on either my own projects ( or public projects ) was…
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Long time no write.
Yeah, I’ve let things lapse a bit more than I normally do. New job has me quite occupied, and I had a house guest for the past month. House guest has now gone home, and I’m back to being a lazy bachelor. Yes, this means I need to do the dishes in the sink. Perhaps…
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Hey ho, another year
Well, I’m officially a year older, and it’s also 2008. Suppose I should bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies for $work, given the apparent tradition of ‘bring treats in on your birthday’.
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Out and about
I’m currently sitting in a Premier Inn room in Crawley, West Sussex – a few miles from Gatwick Airport. “Why?”, I hear you ask (or maybe not [and my English is failing me, is that comma right?]). Just to pick up a friend tomorrow – it was easier to do the 122 miles today in…
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Another drive bites the dust
The title of this post is actually slightly inaccurate – in the past 15 years, the number of hard drive failures my personal hardware has had (as opposed to hardware I’ve worked with) can be counted on one hand, two if my memory is a bit off. This morning, I had reason to thank the…
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The pain of upgrades
It is a given that an upgrade normally breaks something. Take, for instance, the upgrade of my laptop from Kubuntu 7.04 to Kubuntu 7.10. 7.04 didn’t play nice with my NVidia video card – it’s an older card, so the legacy driver was needed. To get things working, I ended up removing files and editing…