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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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European Adventure
17 February 2008

For once it'll probably be pretty quiet around here next week. That's because I'm catching a ludicrously early plane to Amsterdam in the morning to spend a couple of days in the Ibuildings Vlissingen office, and then flying direct to London to work there the rest of the week.

There …
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Fetching Fingerless Mitts (again)
15 February 2008

Last year I made these lovely fingerless mittens from a pattern called "fetching" on the knitty.com site.

I've made some more! After a trip to Farfield Mill in September I bought one skein of lovely local-made wool. I adapted the fetching pattern, adding extra cable repeats at the cuff …
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Learning Dutch
12 February 2008

I now work for IBuildings who are really a Dutch company, and as a result I'm starting to realise it would be useful if I could manage a handful of Dutch phrases. My colleagues and other IRC friends from The Netherlands have all been very helpful and have promised to …
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Crochet Robot
10 February 2008

I recently met up with an IRC friend, Davey Shafik, in real life for the first time. A couple of days beforehand I realised that he lives in Florida and sometimes meets up with my good friend and phpwomen.org mentor, Ligaya Turmelle. This seemed like too good an opportunity …
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