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Another weekend, another netball match
07 November 2006

Well its been a busy couple of weeks on the netball front, we've had friendly matches against a variety of teams midweek which have been fun, and since last week was half-term we have "club night" at training where everyone from all the teams plays at the same time, just taking turns playing games.

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The boat is out
07 November 2006

Which is used in the same sense as “the jury’s out”, meaning the decision hasn’t been made yet, or the outcome is unknown.

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Intended use of HTTP POST
03 November 2006

I read this article from Elliotte Rusty Harold yesterday, and its kind of stuck in my mind [1]. He writes about what the different types of HTTP requests were actually intended for; the difference between the verbs GET and POST. His point is that to view information, GET should be …
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Super Dooper Opera Search Feature
01 November 2006

Opera has sneaked in a fabulous new search feature – and I missed it completely! In looking up how to set up some shortcut searches, I stumbled across this and thought I’d share.

Opera 9 (and I think earlier versions) comes with a preconfigured search function, where you type the …
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PuTTY from command-line
01 November 2006

Following my brush with RSI, I’ve become very mouse-averse, which is difficult on a windows computer! There are a couple of shortcuts that I use to launch programs, mostly revolving around use of the Start->Run dialog (press Windows and R and it just pops up).

PuTTY can have …
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Weak Software Teams
31 October 2006

The strongest indication of a weak team is the realization that if you were to quit and start your own business, you wouldn't try to poach any of your colleagues.

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Daisy Scarf
29 October 2006

Its been a craft-tastic few weeks lately, I’ve another almost-finished item to post after this one! Here are the photos of the mohair scarf I recently made for my boyfriend’s mum’s birthday

And the closeup of the motifs (there were eleven daisy squares altogether):

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Two Beef Slow-cooker Recipes
26 October 2006

I often put the slow cooker on when I know that there are going to be people coming and going and wanting feeding at different times in an evening. I usually do a fairly standard chicken casserole but the last couple of weeks I’ve experiemented with beef. One of …
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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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Sporting Update
22 October 2006

It struck me the other day that I hardly ever write about netball here, which is odd if you think about how much time I spend playing it! So here's an update on the season so far.

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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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