Author: John

It’s a funny old life….

….you think you know how the land lies and then something comes along that pulls the rug out from under you. Is it just me, or are we being surreptitiously taxed to death?

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Minis

I thought I’d post a picture of a couple of things I’ve finished painting recently, just because. First of, this here is a goblin wolf chariot – a nasty little beggar that scoots across the battlefield and causes a fair pile of impact damage whenever it hits anything. It’s best used to even the odds

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Eternal Sonata (360)

Frederic Chopin lies on his deathbed dreaming his final dream. And for some peculiar reason, he’s dreaming about cutesy Anime characters fighting monsters and trying to save the world from the taxman! If this is an indication of where RPGs are going, then I’m a very happy bunny. The storytelling is beautiful, as is the

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The Grand Romp (part 3)

Ok, so the more observant nelefans amongst you may have noticed the Nike+ challenge widget that sat over there —–> Well, after the EPIC FAIL which resulted in none of us actually doing anything towards the challenge, we decided to start a new one – 100km by the end of September. Sounds doable, I think.

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Cron Wierdness

Ok, so we have a Linux box sitting at our colo doing, amongst other things, some ASP stuff. Thing is, this server is a little broken. Someone, at some point in time prior to me working here, decided in their infinite knowledge and wisdom to ‘transfer’ one machine to another by rsyncing random bits of

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A matter of priorities

Bizarrely, I read in the news today that a British woman has just been fined £16,000 for putting a video game on a filesharing network. Fair enough I suppose. The trouble is, I also read last week that a British woman received £10,000 compensation for being subjected to a particularly brutal rape. Is the British

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Oh! Another thing!

My beloved Mrs Gubbins has her very own website here. On it you’ll find wee mini images of the awesome GIANT CANVASSES she paints.

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An oddity

Why is it that, when I actually feel like writing a blog post, I have absolutely nothing to say? I’m a complete blank. I think it’s induced by either too much coffee or not enough $sparkling_beverage. Still, at least I managed to get three sentences out.

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Quote of the Week

 While crawling about the back of a server rack connecting serial ports to a serial console server, I was asked what I was doing. “Connecting these machines to the serial console so I can identify and label them.” “It would be quicker to set up a running ping and then yank the cables out and

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