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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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Social Networking Sites Are Pointless
30 July 2007

Social networking seems to be the buzzword of the moment, MySpace and Beebo are apparently a bit last year and now its Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t really “get” it. I mean, its not that I don’t have friends. I do, lots of …
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Seeing stderr from PHP exec()
27 July 2007

Today I was using the PHP command exec() in a script, which runs whatever you pass to it as it you had typed it on the command line. Its possible to check both the output of the command and the return value, which I did since I wasn’t getting …
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Painting Platforms
26 July 2007

There’s lots to do in the house now – the list of jobs runs is frightening and has everything from “fix kitchen drawer” to “rewire house” on it. Redecorating is a long way down the list but I’ve bought beautiful red curtains for the front room … and the existing …
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Happy Housewarming
20 July 2007

Last weekend we combined good friends, plenty of drink, a barbecue and a surprising spell of good weather to make a house warming party! We started mid afternoon and people dropped as their schedules permitted which worked really well1 . The barbecue was perfect and in fact we had two …
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Open Office Font Shortcuts
19 July 2007

When typing a long document the other day with sore hands, I looked up the keyboard shortcuts for applying headings in Open Office. Here’s a quick few:

._ Font Shortcut

Heading1 Ctrl + 1

Heading2 Ctrl + 2

Heading3 Ctrl + 3

Body Text Ctrl + 0

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Bash Idle Timeout
18 July 2007

I’ve set an idle timeout on the development server at work in an attempt to cut down the number of sessions that have been left logged in on unattended PCs. It was really easy to set up!

You can set this in /etc/profile but I realised that ours …
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Post-it Flowers
17 July 2007

This morning I had a link from craftzine pointing me at this amazing tutorial for making origami flowers from post-its

So far I’ve made one petal but I’m supposed to be working so the others will have to wait til later … when I can get home to my …
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Garden Goodness
10 July 2007

You’ve probably seen the garden photos we took already, but last weekend, it underwent rather a change. Here’s the updated version:

You can’t really see on this photo, but I now have flowers in my garden :) Here’s a better shot:

The two on the left are …
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Strawberry Summer
02 July 2007

Back in October, our first house sale fell through and our plans were rather up in the air. On my next visit home I was marched onto the patio by my father who pointed out the strawberry pot and strawberry plants that would have formed my housewarming present.

Eight months …
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New Look Google Analytics: The Dashboard
02 July 2007

Google Analytics have been migrating their users to a new interface over the last few weeks. I like analytics (something to do with an unhealthy fetish for statistics I think) so I’ve been pretty impatient waiting for my mail to come through. Anyway its here and I’ve been …
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