Tag: wayback machine
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Boxing… pipes that is.
$work had me tied at home today – some cables were being moved around, so I had to disable check-ins for all of the distributed nodes to avoid data loss. As a result, I got slightly active on the list of outstanding home improvement jobs, and tackled one of them. Before I took a jigsaw…
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Winter Arrives, 2005
Well, winter is starting to make its presence known in the Midlands. Temperatures have been dropping below freezing at night, and today was the first snow in this part of the Midlands. The forecast for today didn’t even include snow, but such is the life of a weather forecaster I guess. Can’t be much more…
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Slow Konqueror
I’ve been using Kubuntu for a few months now – first on my server after growing tired of Gentoo and compiling to get a program that I needed 10 minutes ago (and my server is no slouch), and then on my work PC (after trying CentOS 4.1 as a desktop OS [nope]). One thing that…
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Mice. The electronic type.
My faithful(ish) Wireless Intellimouse Explorer has been giving me some grief recently. Even with new or fully charged batteries as the power supply, it randomly decides that the LED is going to flash like mad, not read the surface, and stop my cursor dead in its tracks. Very very annoying when trying to use Kmail…
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MMORPGing
A few months back, a friend of mine (Hi Andy!) introduced me to City of Heroes. It’s a fairly interesting game, though I find the concept of shards of the world being wholly independent a bit restricting. If there are people all around the world playing, I’d like to be able to interact with them…
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So long and thanks for all the fish
This weekend, I decided it was about time to do some maintenance on my fish tank. The water hadn’t been changed for over a month, the gravel was a bit too full of decomposing bits, one of my fish had vanished while I was on vacation, and the plants were taking over the aquarium. So,…