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The Internet Has Landed
02 July 2007

We bought a house, as I may have mentioned before. For anyone who doesn’t know us, I’m an internet geek living with an even geekier internet geek. The internal networks have been up since about ten days in, but its taken til today (more than five weeks) to …
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Gender and the Tech Community
25 June 2007

I could post a whole page of links on this subject, I’m a woman in IT and its not easy. The women I know in the area will already have read all of them anyway, so there’s little value in that.

This one is for the guys. If …
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The waters rise
25 June 2007

Popped home at lunch time and the water is a couple of centimetres deep with another 12 hours or so of heavy rain forecast. Even my bright red wellies aren’t enough to brighten up this situation!

So today’s post is about a different bit of the house, the …
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A Tale of Two Floods
20 June 2007

Well, we’ve been in the house almost four weeks and so far we’ve been flooded twice1.

Last Friday I headed down the stairs for my breakfast, to the kitchen which is in the basement. pitter … patter … splish. splash. splosh. I’m standing in about an inch of …
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Mysql Mishap
18 June 2007
Last week I learned a valuable lesson about backing up MySQL, it was this:
- It is not enough to copy the files out of /var/lib/mysql or wherever if you want to backup your databases.
The thing with copying files is that if the mysql daemon is still running …
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Don't close the door!
17 June 2007

I know I’ve been pretty quiet around here lately but we’re still without internet at home (don’t ask – a story for another day) and work is frantic so I’m struggling to find time. While everyone is waiting I thought I’d let you know that the …
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Wedding Weekend
12 June 2007

Some of you know this young lady and I’m sure she won’t mind me posting a little shot of where I was this weekend:

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Boxes and Labels
08 June 2007

I’ve packed the camera as I’m away this weekend, so I’m sorry but a word-related house post is all there is for today.

We’ve got most of the furniture assembled now, or at least in the room it is destined for, and the process of unpacking …
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Timber!
05 June 2007

There’s a tree in the new garden which shouldn’t be there. In general I’m in favour of trees, but this was a horrible big conifer which blocked the light from our garden and next door’s.

Here’s the offender:

And the “after” shot:

Ah, that’s …
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Ding! Dong! The doorbell's ... gone
04 June 2007

So we’ve just moved into our new house – its quite large and the mobile signal is quite poor. We’ve got a wireless doorbell and can take the chime around the house with us which is very useful. We had not got round to screwing it to the wall …
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Fun With Unix: MOTD
30 May 2007

I’ve been having fun over the last few weeks, writing about the fun things that you can do with Unix (see earlier articles about cowsay, fortune, mesg and go fish). This is the last in the mini series unless anyone has any other good suggestions for things that should …
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Photos from the house: day one
29 May 2007

Following the news about our recent house purchase, I promised everyone some photos, so here they are. I’ve only got internet connection at work so I’m afraid I’ve just picked a few of the ones we took on Friday, with the house exactly as we found it …
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