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Adding Markup to Comments in Serendipity
24 March 2008

I switched over to serendipity as my blog platform about 6 months ago and although I haven't been blown away by it, its a better tool for this job than textpattern was. I liked textpattern a lot but serendipity is better for what I need. There were a few things …
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Bank Holiday Weekend To Do List
20 March 2008

Its Easter, which means its the only time of the year we reliably get 4 days off in a row from work without taking leave. And one thing I don't have is a lot of holiday allocation. So, we've got good intentions of getting as much as possible done in …
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Debian Change Keyboard Layout
17 March 2008
I recently downloaded a virtual machine which had all the default factory settings in it - including an American keyboard layout. To change this on Debian Etch I simply used:
```
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
```
and then followed the online prompts. For reference (i.e. the next time I have this problem), the | (pipe …
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First Manchester Girl Geek Dinner
13 March 2008

Last night I attended the first Manchester Girl Geek Dinner. I am very excited about the Girl Geek Dinner events arriving in the north, there's a lot of activity up here and I'm already involved in other local events such as GeekUp and BarCamp.

I'm based in Leeds, so it …
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Grand Entrance Hall
10 March 2008

When the rewiring of the house was done in November and our parquet flooring was a casualty of the process. We've spent the months since then with a hallway that looks like this:

Please admire the retro red and orange floorboards!!

Anyway, things are looking a lot better now - we've …
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PHP London Meet and Some Heckling
08 March 2008

I've been in London on business again this week (hopefully my wild travelling will calm down a bit now) which had the nice side-effect of allowing me to get to the PHP London meetup on Thursday. It was nice to see people that I met at the conference the previous …
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Farmhouse Cake
02 March 2008

This is the recipe for the cake I made for php london, its a "Farmhouse Cake" apparently but it reminds me of Dundee cake and keeps really well for a good couple of weeks in a tin, which can often be useful!

8oz butter

8oz caster sugar

grated rind of …
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PHP London 2008
01 March 2008

On Friday was this year's PHP Conference in London and I must say it was a roaring success. The whole conference had completely gone up a gear from last year (the only other time I've attended) with a larger venue, choice of tracks, more attendees and better food.

I was …
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Offline Geeking
28 February 2008

I don't spend a lot of time hanging around with geeks in the real world. I spend a lot of time hanging around with them in virtual spaces and some of the people I have met there are my closest friends. Offline meets are ... quite different. Lots of geeks are …
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PHP London and Another Busy Week
24 February 2008

I heard last week that the PHPLondon conference is completely sold out - I had a funny feeling it might be :) I will be there, this Friday 29th February and looking forward to a great event. I'll be at the pre- and post-conference socials, if you are an online acquaintance please …
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Speaking at Dutch PHP Conference
21 February 2008

A quick announcement: I'm speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference this year, my talk is entitled "PHP Deployment with Subversion". The conference is in Amsterdam, you can find out more on its website http://phpconference.nl, and it takes place on June 14th. It'll be my first big speaking engagement …
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Seaside Sunset
19 February 2008

Here's the view from my hotel balcony yesterday evening:

So far the Netherlands is a great experience, my colleagues are friendly and its a lovely country to visit.

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