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New Niece
19 August 2007

My niece or nephew is here – and she’s a niece called Natalie. She was born late last night and we got to meet her today! Here she is:

Yawning :)

With her Dad:

Some very proud first-time grandparents!

And Kevin and I being very brave and holding the baby ourselves …
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Small Company vs Big Company
17 August 2007

When choosing a career move, whether its your first job out of university or the next step on the ladder, the type of organisation you work in will make quite a difference. Different sectors are all different and each has their own culture, but the size of the organisation is …
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How does your garden grow?
12 August 2007

I’m so organised that I forgot to take a before photo, but for those that this means something to, here’s my new-look front garden:

Previously it was a bit of a mess, with gravel just dumped on top of bits of plastic sheeting and weeds coming up everywhere …
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Women Together
09 August 2007

Most people know that I’m active in the phpwomen community, women in technology is something that I really believe in but won’t start ranting about right now (or I’ll not get round to what I was going to say!).

Today I’m getting to grips with irssi …
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Wiki Wonder
09 August 2007

I love wikis for workplace documentation. For anyone who doesn’t know, a wiki is a web page with an “edit” button, so you can change the content of it if you have something to add or something is out of date or missing. Wikipedia is the obvious example.

So …
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Happy Cat Holidays
09 August 2007

We have a guest staying with us … a cat named Orbit :)

He actually belongs to a friend of ours who has gone on holiday, so the cat gets a holiday as well, staying with us. Its quite a responsibility but so far he’s doing fine. He’s pining for …
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Textpattern To Serendipity
07 August 2007

I’m planning on migrating this site to a new platform soon, I’ve been looking around for an alternative to textpattern. Textpattern has been great but I’ve kind of outgrown it. Its easy to use but a bit “fluffy” and it eats my code excerpts which is really …
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Home Help
06 August 2007

I finally took a picture of the garden, with its new benches and no tree stumps:

I just wanted to post the photo and also thank the many people who have already helped us in the house and garden, and the many more who have promised help (or whom I …
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grep: unknown directories method
03 August 2007

The title of the post is the error message I got when attempting to grep a directory containing a file whose name started with a hyphen ( – ).

What has happened is that grep interprets hypens as switches, as if the idea was to convey options to use. This gave me a …
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Boost Your Popularity - Flame Facebook
03 August 2007

I recently wrote that I don’t get social networking, with interesting results. I posted links to all my various profiles in various places, and I now have ten friends on Facebook (up from two when I wrote the first article) and one flickr friend as well.

I find it …
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Alternative Uses for a Shoe Rack
02 August 2007

A few houses ago, I had a shoe rack.

I remember it in our first house together, and I’m not sure if it got assembled in the house after that. Its been in storage since then until yesterday. When I unpacked it, I discovered this sign attached to it …
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Cleaning up Windows Line Endings in Vim
01 August 2007

I have a file which has been edited in windows with an incorrect setting. All the lines have

^M

At the end of each line.

To search for these in Vim, you can type ctrl+v (to mean “take my next key combination literally”) then ctrl+m. To clean up …
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