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Awards Night Excitement
05 May 2007

Last night was the netball awards night, I took the present for my coach and prepared for a night out with the girls. What I wasn't prepared for was actually winning something!

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Stopwatch Cosy
05 May 2007

Its the end of the netball season and I've been trying to think of a gift for my coach who has been fantastic this season. With my usual comic timing, I decided yesterday that a new stopwatch with a countdown feature would be a good present for a sports coach.

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Fun with Unix: Writing Messages
01 May 2007

This is the first in a mini-series of articles about using Linux/Unix to do things other than view logs and edit files. I’m 26 and find that many of my peers weren’t exposed to Unix servers at university, so they miss out on this. If you have …
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Mouselessness
29 April 2007

Not to be confused with houselessness which I have also been doing a lot of recently, today mouselessness is the name of the game. Inspired by this recent post on Coding Horror here are my thoughts on using a computer without a mouse.

RSI Risk

I posted a while back …
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Offer Accepted (sound familiar??)
24 April 2007

We’ve bought a house! If you think you may have read this before, perhaps you’d like to read one of the three previous offers posts.

In an interesting twist, we’ve had an offer accepted on the same house we had an offer accepted on last time, for …
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Three Things I Saw At Chester Zoo
24 April 2007

We went to Chester Zoo on Easter weekend, which was great apart from the humongous traffic queues to get in. Still they seemed pretty well organised and since we chose to arrive mid-morning on a beautiful bank holiday weekend then it was always going to be busy!

The zoo itself …
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public/private key SSH on ubuntu
23 April 2007

Here are a few notes I made when changing SSH acces for an ubuntu server over to using public/private key authentication. These instructions are for commands run on the server to generate keys which are then used to access that same server from elsewhere.

On the whole the process …
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Flip flops to Espadrilles
21 April 2007

I have just seen this amazing pattern on floofle.blogspot.com – a definite maybe for my summer projects list!

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Baby Booties
19 April 2007

The first installment of knitting for a new arrival due into the extended family this summer. They are actually green but I didn’t fiddle with the camera before I took the photo!

The pattern is from a supplement that came with Simply Knitting magazine a while ago – but as …
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Process Email Queue by Waving Mouse
18 April 2007

Today I had a problem with a development server. A little, low-traffic thing that I was testing some PHP-sends-email pages on. The emails wouldn’t send although I could see them sat in the queue.

The story gets better but there’s a techie bit between here and the punchline …
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Tabs in Vim
16 April 2007

Tabs seem to be out of fashion in the programming world, there are perfectly valid arguments on both sides or the tabs vs. spaces flame war, illustrated with examples from every programming language and text editor combination ever made. You can read any or all of these if you are …
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SQLPlus for MySQL
11 April 2007

Until recently I spent a lot of time working with Oracle from the command line (via ksh on AIX, in case you’re interested). A change of job means a change of platform and I find myself working with MySQL on a daily basis. I like MySQL – like most PHP …
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