Hmmm, I was wondering why my Orange mobile wasn’t working this morning … thanks to el reg, I now know what the problem was … *fume*
Quick entry before I head off to work. Yeah, to work, I’m no longer working from home. Most people who know me know this already, but I left SmoothWall Ltd. last month to work in sysadmin at Lumison, formerly edNET, an Edinburgh-based ISP. As my post to the SmoothWall community says, it was just a […]
I haven’t been blogging much lately, so I haven’t tapped out some of the stuff I’ve been up to. One of those things was to sit two (cheap) Linux Professional Institute exams in the middle of last month. Net Resources through in Edinburgh were getting themselves organised to be the first LPI certification exam provider […]
I’m getting bombarded with comment spam on this blog, even after installing MT-Blacklist. Something I’ve noticed after a spot of log analysis is that the kosher comments come from the HTML form generated by Movable Type at the end of each post, and are submitted by POST method (i.e. in the HTTP headers); the spammers […]
30 years ago pretty much to the minute, I appeared in this world, surrounded by an unconscious mother and hospital porters betting on that day’s Grand National. And I still be here, being old and grumpy. Although the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Where’s me pipe? Bastards.
It’s all been and gone … Update: 2004-03-28 15:34 BST If you wanted to come along, you’ve missed out — photies and stuff soon. What? I’m 30 years old on the 30th of March, 2004. I’ve decided that much drinking is in order, and that in the interests of fairness, that the drinking shouldn’t occur […]
Another year, another bunch of drinks 🙂 Went out with Andy, Jade and Jess — started at Jess’s, then Bar Oz, Waxy’s for the bells, and then some random flat out west. Good night, good craic, sorted. Made it home just before 8 — I only remember the actual time because I snapped a couple […]
Bob Monkhouse and Alan Bates have both passed away, with Mr. Monkhouse losing the battle against prostate cancer, which I didn’t even realise he had been diagnosed with — two years ago, according to the news report — and Sir Bates had been suffering from liver cancer. It also turns out an aunt’s mother and […]
It’s Christmas, or something. Eat well, drink lots and be merry, or else. Unless you’re Meriadoc Brandybuck, in which case, just eat and drink.