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A year in books

December 26, 2009 – 10:28 pm

I do enjoy poking through the books I’ve read each year, its a good indicator of what sort of year it has been.  Thanks for the magic power of LibraryThing, it’s easy to find them all too.  So in reverse order, and with the odd note *d…

A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal [...]

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The strange and pale styling

December 24, 2009 – 10:40 pm

Whilst I was down in London a few weeks ago, I drunkenly set about re-skinning coldclimate.  Since I moved to Wordpress a few years ago I’d used the Ocadia theme, and very nice it was too.  However, lots of people use it, so it was time to make something of my own.
I’m no designer.  Never [...]

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The state of the nation

December 22, 2009 – 8:56 pm

I’m sitting this evening, watching TV, something I normally pour scorn on. Call me elitist, called me a snob, call me posh (if your vocabulary only gets that far) but most of the stuff on TV is just drivel. Thats why I’m watching a stack load of divx files, not whatever it being beamed [...]

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XBMC on Ubuntu running really slow?

December 22, 2009 – 8:30 am

Last night I finally got my Ubuntu 9.1 box up and running properly.  It talks to my wireless, it talks to my telly, it connects to my NAS box and it even has blue teeth!  How?  I plugged in all of my peripherals, and reinstalled from the latest download.  I’d twatted about trying to get [...]

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The magic of computing

December 16, 2009 – 9:38 pm

I love computers. I really seriously love technology. I have no other tangable skill set (other than talking and maybe a few other things). I love making file systems work, getting databases to do backflips, to root my way through a problem and determine that it’s actual X not Y that is [...]

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