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Can blogging get you killed?
27 March 2007
Read moreI’ve just spent the last two hours reading through (this is a disturbing link, you have been warned) Kathy Sierra’s post about the death threats she has been receiving.
Death threats.
One of the most talented and inspirational writers of our time is currently locked inside their house …
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Want to Meet Mantis?
26 March 2007
Read moreBug trackers are great. Keeping track of lots of little niggly things is tedious and hard to do even if you have pink post-it notes, which I do. But for a software development team there is no subsitute for a decent bug tracker [1].
That’s why I’m trying …
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Open Office Custom Colours
14 March 2007
Read moreYesterday I was working on a document in Open Office and wanted to colour the background of some cells to match a diagram I had created1.
The choice of colours wasn’t great and there wasn’t a “more colours” button. After a few minutes of growling I went …
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Tiny Vim on Ubuntu
12 March 2007
Read moreA new installation of Ubuntu exists at work and I’ve discovered that by default, it doesn’t come with real vim. The clue is in the error message:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax enableE538: No mouse support: mouse=aTo get things …
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New Addition To The Family
01 March 2007
Read moreI’m proud to announce that we are now the owners of a MacBook! Or rather, Kevin is the proud owner of one and I am being friends with it too. It arrived yesterday and is called Edoras. All our computers need names because we have too many to be …
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WTF?
27 February 2007
Read moreThe Daily WTF website has redefined itself to make WTF stand for “Worse Than Failure”... WTF???
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New Camera
18 February 2007
Read moreWe bought a new camera yesterday. Kevin has a good digital camera but its quite big and now quite old. He saw that Jessop’s was having a sale so we went and looked … we’ve now got a fujifilm finepix F650 [1]. Its quite small and quite powerful with …
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Email Outage
15 February 2007
Read moreLike the technical wizard that I am I’ve just spent 48 hours (almost) with all email to my lornajane.net domain getting lost in the ether somewhere. The story is one of those silly bureaucratic ones which I won’t repeat here because my hosting company, flump , have been …
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CafePress Order
14 February 2007
Read moreFollowing our PHPThrowdown experience I saw on their website that they have mugs on CafePress. For ages I have wanted the “code like a girl” mug from CafePress having read Kathy Sierra’s article of the same name.
Well the order arrived today: One PHP Throwdown 2007 mug and one …
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Feel the Freedom
07 February 2007
Read moreI’ve just stumbled across Scott Carpenter’s site Moving to Freedom site and it reminded me something I meant to write about.
Some time ago, my little sister entered Further Education and needed her own computer. So I tarted up my desktop, reinstalled it, and dumped it in her …
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Google Analytics 2006
31 January 2007
Read moreI have written about Google Analytics before, once or twice but I haven’t managed to put across the sheer volume of information. Today I had a look back at 2006 (the first year for this site) and looked at how it went. I thought I could share the main …
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What Rabbits do best
23 January 2007
Read moreIn the summer, I bought a nabaztag for Kevin as his birthday present. Within a couple of weeks he had figured out how to intercept its web requests and replace them with instructions of his own. The little creature has five lights – one under his feet, three across his tummy …