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Flickr Plugin Weirdness
29 July 2008

I am an increasingly avid flickr user and have a growing collection of photos on my flickr account. It seems daft to upload photos twice all the time so I tried the flickr plugin for serendipity (my bloggling platform) but I couldn't get my account to connect correctly. In the …
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Ibuildings Seminar, Leeds
25 July 2008

My employers, Ibuildings, have been running a series of seminars where we invite a few people (and it is a few, they are generally small events), bring some of our developers along, and have some technical tutorials, demonstrations and general discussions, and some food. The previous events have all been …
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Announcing the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner
22 July 2008

Once upon a time there was a girl geek called Sarah Blow, and she wanted to hang out with her girl friends and geek out at the same time (and who wouldn't?). So she founded the phenomenon of the Girl Geek Dinner in London. Well this great idea has spread …
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LugRadioLive Wolverhampton 2008
20 July 2008

Yesterday I had an outing to the LUGRadio Live event in Wolverhampton. To be honest this isn't my usual kind of crowd but it was local, the talks looked interesting and so off I went.

Well it was a very interesting day - the highlight was of course meeting Emma from …
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LugRadio Live UK
15 July 2008

I'm attending LUGRadio Live UK this weekend, in sunny Wolverhampton! I'm slightly concerned that this might be too geeky for me and I might be scared but there are people I'd like to meet, the talks look interesting, and I can imagine it will be a pretty good crowd. If …
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Circuitboard Cake
13 July 2008

There's a birthday in my household this week so I have been making a surprise cake, which I do every year. Apart from the year where all our stuff was in storage and I only had fairy cake tins, where I made surprise fairy cakes instead! This year I went …
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Ever Feel Like You're Being Followed?
09 July 2008

I've been using twitter for quite a while now, around a year. And so far, its not going brilliantly.

The problem really is that I don't "get" twitter. I am not online 24/7 so I often only look at my feeds once per day. The conversation in twitter moves …
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Home-Sewn Cushions
08 July 2008

I have a little sewing machine and a newly-decorated living room. So what could be more obvious than making new cushions for my sofa? I'm planning a whole set but here are the first two:

The one on the left is my personal favourite, it is felt flowers just cut …
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Mysql Error
07 July 2008
I was running an import script today taken from a mysqldump from another user, when I saw an error that looked like this:
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ERROR 1005 (HY000) at line 123: Cant create table  (errno: 150)
```
This is caused by a mysqldump or export process exporting tables in alphabetical order and not …
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A Turtle and a Giant Baby Blanket
02 July 2008

I've just finished another slowpoke, like one I made earlier, and this one is at least as cute!

I realised after finishing this one that they original pattern has them with their heads looking sideways, maybe this is why mine always look a bit strange!! This one also doesn't have …
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Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
01 July 2008

When development teams have people working on a variety of platforms, its pretty common to end up with wrong line endings. In vim these will look like ^M at the end of each line. To get rid of these line endings you can use the following command (in command mode …
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Serendipity and Feed Problems
29 June 2008

This site uses a blogging platform called serendipity which is a nice little tool and I've been mostly happy since moving across from textpattern (I did write about the experience). Recently however, a few things have been going wrong with the feeds.

I edited an old post, because the image …
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