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Girls and Gadgets Don't Mix
25 October 2006

My partner asked me the other day if I would like a new watch for Christmas. Actually I would really like a new watch for Christmas and I’m touched that he had thought of such a gift. He asked that I choose, so that he could be sure of …
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PHPWomen: A Community is Born
23 October 2006

This post has been a week or so in the making, I just wanted to find the right words to tell the story. I saw a post on the PHP DevZone saying that Ligaya Turmelle wants to hear from women in PHP.

Well I hopped right across to the her …
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Accidental E-Self-Discovery
19 October 2006

Something wierd just happened …. I was trying to do something on the PHP Community Book Site (more about them another day), to get dokuwiki to hyperlink to sections. I was confused about the syntax so I googled for it.

Can you guess what happened next?

My own website was one …
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House Woes
19 October 2006

We’re not buying a house! Or rather, we’re not buying the house we thought we were.

The house, as I have mentioned before, is a bit of a wreck. I mean, it has walls and windows and a roof and stuff … but internal doors, floors and a working …
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Cream of the Crop (of editors)
18 October 2006

There’s a longer post in the pipeline somewhere about editors and IDEs and developments and stuff as we’ve just changed our setup at work and I’m completely thrown by trying to develop on windows! Anyway to cut a long story short, I’ve found a fabulous Vim …
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Hugs and Shakes
17 October 2006

I’m having an interesting etiquette issue. I’m a woman working in a male-dominated environment, and basically I don’t think like a girl. I wear flat shoes and greet people with a firm handshake and drink pints; that’s who I am and I don’t believe my …
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Blanket for Baby
14 October 2006

This is the blanket I have just made for a new arrival in the extended family. Its losely based on this shell afghan pattern

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Slip Sliding Away
10 October 2006

The draft of the building survey arrived – wahey. The surveyors’ secretaries are very lovely and helpful when I ring them which is good news as I have done that three times this week already!

The actual survey is not such good news. There’s just a whole host of things …
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Rotten Survey Results
02 October 2006

I knew things were going too well, I really did.

The valuation survey has come back. Its a pretty slim document (3 pages) with tickboxes to say how many bedrooms the house has and whether its made of brick. However, there is one paragraph of text and it says that …
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Tomato Sauce
28 September 2006

An easy tomato sauce recipe to make in the microwave.

Slice one onion and put it in a microwaveable dish. Add one tablespoon of olive oil and microwave on high for three minutes.

Add one tin of chopped tomatoes, some tomato puree (one tablespoon or one of those little tins …
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Introverts and Extroverts
27 September 2006

I’ve just come across this quote on James Shore’s Website:

For an extrovert, socializing with strangers boosts their energy. For an introvert, socializing with strangers drains their energy

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Extending DokuWiki's Authentication Classes
26 September 2006

DokuWiki is a fine product, and its extensibility is a big element of that. I’ve known for a while that it has different authentication classes, and I’ve even used some of the different ones it comes with. Recently I had cause to write my own, to marry up …
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