The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / November 18, 2008 / John / 0
My lovely lady wife has her first solo exhibition! Entitled ‘Organic Form: Exploration of Spirituality’, it will be on display in the upper foyer of The Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate, from Monday, 17 November, to 31 December. If you find yourself in West Lothian, it’s well worth a visit. It makes a change from the kind
Ramblings / November 10, 2008 / John / 0
Honestly. There’s two ways I can describe today. Firstly, imagine I am separated from the rest of the office by a giant fishtank that fills my whole field of view. Now imagine that the fishtank is full of huge, twitching, orange octopi which are juggling hand grenades. Next, imagine there’s a slow-motion car crash involving
Ramblings / October 31, 2008 / John / 0
There are times when you just have to do things the hard way. For example, on finding a bug in a piece of software deployed to thirty-odd client systems, it would generally be considered a good idea to connect to those systems, ascertain whether or not said system was affected, and then patch and test
Ramblings / October 28, 2008 / John / 1
So I was woken up the other day by the sound of Son #2 leaping about excitedly because The Goon Show was on the radio. (Actually, it was the TV, as that’s where our digital reception comes from, but let’s not let today’s climate of technological ambiguity get in the way). So, as I was
Ramblings / October 24, 2008 / John / 0
 Well, I promised my lad I’d have a few games of Magic with him at the weekend. The trouble is, he has a Mortivore. It’s a pretty rare card, and it’s rare because it’s bloomin’ evil. In two ways. First of all, its strength and toughness are equal to the number of cards in
Ramblings / October 23, 2008 / John / 1
I know this SHOULDN’T be awesome, but IT ACTUALLY IS. When the BBC post an article entitled something like “Pirates Threaten Christmas Shopping”, it gets an automatic eyeroll for me, half expecting it to be a rant comparing unauthorised copying of music/moves/whatever to pillage and murder on the high seas. Clearly, the irony is lost
Ramblings / October 22, 2008 / John / 0
I’ve just realised I haven’t written anything on here since the 13th of October. That’s not very good, really. Having said that, saying nothing is probably better than posting every day but having nothing to say. Anyhoo, as it happens, I DO have something to say today and this is it: KDE 4.1 is really
Ramblings / October 9, 2008 / John / 0
Okay, so as part of my amazing scheme to take a very old netapp, built around Oracle and PL/SQL and running on ancient end-of-life unsupportable SPARC hardware, and port it to low cost Linux boxen, I’ve finally gotten round to attempting to shoehorn Oracle9i and OAS onto our preferred linux – CentOS 4.6. CentOS 4.6