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Geeky Goodness

March 31st 2005

Forgot the Administrator’s Password? then this might help. And theres a v cool linux distro listed. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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subject

March 31st 2005

Looks like Cygwin also does a good job. I used it many years ago – but this might be a really handy use – less commercial software on my works lappy. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing [...]

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Need exceed, but dont want, erm, exceed?

March 31st 2005

I’ve not used it yet but XwinLogon miight be the answer. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Greatest ever error log

March 30th 2005

What appeared in our error log last night – possibly the greatest error message I’ve ever seen (after the Java “you may die now” error) “cvs[807]: [ID daemon.error] Dying gasps received from client.” Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic [...]

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I like my chocolate like I like my sci-fi…

March 29th 2005

… dark, bitter and twisted. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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OpenSource government

March 29th 2005

MP’s has a bad press. I suspect it is justified as I’ve never yet heard for a real benevolent dictator. Worth remembering they work for you(.com) Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Mac Interview

March 29th 2005

Anybody who knows me in real life will know that lately I’ve become a Mac Bore. Previous to this I have been a Blog Bore, POV Bore, Linux Bore, Open Source Bore and everything else geeky I can get my sticky IT fingers into. Anyway – this little article might be more interesting to the [...]

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Cunning lingustic as code breakers

March 29th 2005

A combination of a distrobuted cracking network (a la SETI@home) and the use of customised dictionaries gleened from the files on your harddrive might mean that the CIA etc etc can decrypt your data once again. Surprise surprise – the weakest link is once again the human being who has to remeber their password and [...]

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Teen tiny linux machines

March 29th 2005

Highly highly uber geek (and stolen from /. ) there are reports of a very small piece of Linux hardware out there. We’re talking about a functioning machine smaller that a pencil sharpered here kids. Linux powered toothbrush anybody? Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The [...]

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Crazy but cunning?

March 29th 2005

The idea of a silent disco is nuts, but it just might work. How wierd it would be to be at a rave, in a huge tent, and it to be really quiet. It means that you could take the headphones off to have a convertation! Would this make chatting people up easier, because you [...]

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And the productivity continues

March 29th 2005

Its amazing what you can dig up on the net when you’re trying to avoif thinking about things. For example I’ve just found a guide to writing firefox extensions and xul and lots of other shiny things. Perfect – now I just need another long weekend to write some of the damned things. edit: Also [...]

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Resolution so quickly!

March 29th 2005

Via Technorati I discover touchgraph which would appear to be very useful for theNewProject. Also this is the first time I’ve used personalBlogs new feature which automatically adds the link above when I come to this page to add this comment. Must stop surfing though – the birds are singing. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water [...]

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Sleeeep!

March 29th 2005

Dammit (Jannet) all I want to do is sleep and I’ve got what I so elegantly described aged 5, as “Whizzy Brain” eg. theres a million and one things bumbing aorund in here that are driving me nuts and I’ve ending up just staring at the ceiling. I suspect having an iBook handy is not [...]

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Woowzer!

March 29th 2005

What happens when you get a bored IT man in need of a project? many many exciting thing it would appear. Once you’ve read that one give thhe real thing a go. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of [...]

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Tag the web?

March 29th 2005

Is tagging the next big thing in interweb technologies? Would be dead easy to roll into personalBlog, and would skip my need for silly hardcored catagories, of which I have few, and use less. I smells a project coming on … Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a [...]

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Little changes

March 28th 2005

Lots of little changes to the backend – mostly not visable, but everything on here is now pwered by personalBlog. Also every bog has feeds (so you can syndicate what I’m reading if you really really want to). I’m not sure if anybody wold really want to. Next job: to convert the feed xml’s to [...]

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RSS changed

March 28th 2005

Hopefully this inor change means each personalBlog should have its own RSS feed. this should be the one for the main blog on this page. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Binary Cloud

March 28th 2005

I’ve been looking into a way of representing graph/tree structures in php/mysql for a new project (fear my latenight ideas) but I just cant find anything suitable already. However I did run across binaryCloud which looks like something very interesting, and possibly very useful. I shall investigate. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : [...]

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SinCity

March 27th 2005

Sin City – I cannot wait. I just cant wait. Comic based, linux powered, beutifully rendered, I just cant wait. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Randm internetness

March 27th 2005

I was hunting for a band called Me and The Twins so I could email them some photos I have them, and I ran across these kids (danger danger Will Robinson – not work/mummy/daddy/weak of heart safe)who are the most wonderfully colourfl, shiny, happy looking folks I’ve seen in ages. I wish I had the [...]

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Louis!

March 26th 2005

Great reading! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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The Go! Team

March 26th 2005

Whilst trying to finish The Damned Thesis (I’ve passed – but my spelling is poo and I’ve got to make corrections) I’m listening to The Go! Team – who are fun and happy and not worklike. They kinda remind me of We Start Fires and Venus In Furs. Anyway – they have a song called [...]

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Latex and hangovers

March 25th 2005

Well I spent last night wasted, and then wasted today. The only thing I have achieved is getting Latex to work on my work lappy, having completely failed to get it to work on my mac. So at least I can work tomorrow. They keep showing 2 second clips of rowing on the tv. I [...]

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Bridging the gap

March 25th 2005

I’ve just seen the video for Naz and his dads “bridging the gap”. greeat stuff, and im not really a modern hiphop child. Still cant get tex working either damn it. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing [...]

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A phrase I love

March 24th 2005

Everybody who is anybody who is not Microsoft aka – “anybody”. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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cleaners!

March 24th 2005

cleaners – this lot are not as friendly as last weeks. or as cute Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Panda Eyes?

March 24th 2005

Apparently today I look like a panda. Two people have told me so, and Im beginning to believe it. I didnt sleep very well, and I guess thats the reason I look rubbish. I wonder if I’d be allowed to sleep at work for thereputic reasons? Might set a pressedent I guess. Possibly Related Posts: [...]

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/. goodness

March 24th 2005

/. is one of my favourite sites but robitic snakes and Solar Death Rays have to much geek cred’ for words. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Bobby Fische

March 23rd 2005

Another great big pair of middle fingers being stuck up at the US of A, Bobby Fische is heading to Iceland. Go chess boy go! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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late night ruminations

March 22nd 2005

Is blogging good for the soul? Maybe, just maybe. Or do we write for an audience. Probably. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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forgotten songs

March 22nd 2005

I’d forgoten all about The Stone Roses, “I wanna be adored”. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Onc again

March 22nd 2005

I will have to clean these up – this is getting silly. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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more rss bugs

March 22nd 2005

I will sort this out – before it takes over my whole blog! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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RSS bug?

March 22nd 2005

It seems RSS isnt very good at handling special chacters like & and ? and £ so lets see if this works! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Gods little joke

March 21st 2005

Girls. Just too good to be true sometimes. Yes Im shallow. Sometimes. But hot damn! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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OpenSearch?

March 21st 2005

Is this a trick that google have missed OpenSearch from amazon (in thier a9 guise) seems to be a good idea. I will investigate. I might implement. Really I should tidy up all the stuff I’ve started, but not got round to finishing. But fuck that – theres a million and one mini projects to [...]

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