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Donate to PHPWomen and Win
17 January 2008

Its exciting times at PHPWomen.org. There is the new addition of a "Donate" button, for anyone who would like to contribute to our cause. As if we aren't reason enough, the adorable Cal Evans from Devzone has given us 10 elePHPants (remember he sent me one?) to give to …
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PHP London 2008 Schedule
16 January 2008

After the fun I had last year at PHPLondon, I'm happy to announce that I'll be there this year as well. The talks are pretty much finalised, the schedule is online and all that's left is for everyone to get tickets and I'll see you there!

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I'm a Zend Certified Engineer
14 January 2008

I'm proud to announce that today both Kevin and I passed our ZCE exams and are Zend Certified Engineers - yay :)

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Logrotate Error on Ubuntu

10 January 2008

For a few weeks now, I've been seeing this error in my logs every night:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 …

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Home Office Haven
06 January 2008

This weekend has been, like many before it, DIY-tastic. I popped out to a party this afternoon and in the meantime Kevin put the finishing touches to the shelves in the little bedroom that we will use as an office. To put this in context, let's start with the "before …
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Compiling PHP Development Version
03 January 2008

I had cause this week to install an additional version of PHP onto my development server. This is because I wanted to look at the code for forkr which is targeted at PHP 5.3, which isn't out yet. So I trotted across to snaps.php.net and downloaded the …
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2007 Review
01 January 2008

I was going to skip the essay thing and just write a quick "Happy New Year" post, but then I read last year's entry and couldn't help remembering how far I've come in what is really a short space of time. Two years ago I had no job and was …
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Christmas Angel
25 December 2007

Merry Christmas everyone!!

I spent last weekend doing a mad delivery round across the midlands but now I'm enjoying a quiet Christmas at home. I also finally got round to making the angel for the top of the tree, here she is:

She took up her post on top of …
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Midwinter
21 December 2007

Tomorrow marks the winter solstice, the shortest day. Already we've reached the deepest, darkest part of the year (and its not all that dark, I'm only 53 degrees above the equator). Now begins the longer days and lighter nights, taking us through to summer time - yay :)

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Easy Mincemeat Recipe
17 December 2007

Most of my recipes are found on the internet, but this one is a scanned copy of a recipe my mum cut out of a magazine, probably sometime in the seventies. Its really simple to do and makes nice, sweet mincemeat full of apple tastes and not too sharp. I …
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Tinsel Tree
16 December 2007

Christmas really is upon us - well, it isn't but I'm out every night this week and I need to be delivering presents by the end of it. So today sees everything (apart from the home baked gifts) complete and wrapped and ready to go.

This year we have our own …
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Christmas Cookery
14 December 2007

I've excelled myself in the kitchen this evening, been there for a good few hours and here's the result:

From left to right: banana loaf, mince pies, more mince pies, gingerbread in a jar, mincemeat pasty thing. Not in the shot is the curry I also assembled for tomorrow night …
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