Category: Ramblings

Spring Cleaning – in December

I’ve done something that I’ve needed to do for ages. There’s a lot of change going on in the World of Nelefa at the moment, and there’s really no need for random emails dating back to easynet.support in 1993, Realise and Cyberia in 1996, Dowcarter in 1998 and even Navyblue at the moment. My email

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Ubuntu Linux

Having a bit of a love affair with this operating system just now. I’ve been using Linux in various guises since 1994 or thereabouts, but moved to FreeBSD at work and Macs at home a few years back. A good friend of mine introduced me to Ubuntu before buggering off back to Germany a few

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The Attack of Waspzilla!

So, there I was, lying in my bed reading the first volume of the Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (as you do). From somewhere about a foot above me came a droning sound. Not a buzzing sound. Not a whine. A drone. A fairly weighty sounding drone – the kind of sound a twin prop

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NanoWriMo Ahoy

I’m going to enter this year. For those who may not know, NanoWriMo is an annual competition for writers. And non writers. Basically, what you do is write a 50,000 (minimum) word novel in one month. You start at 00:00:01 on November 1st and finish at Midnight on November 30th. It doesn’t have to be

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Seaham, New South Wales – House for Sale

Situated just 8 mins from Raymond Terrace and 17 mins to Maitland in the pretty village of Seaham, this tri level home on just over half an acre is fully fenced and offers rural living and the best of both worlds. Although basically a two bedroom home, there is room to expand to four bedrooms

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Humourless doctors.

Had a bad day on Friday. I’d been feeling a bit unwell on Thursday morning and on and off during the day. It got bad enough to prompt me to make a doctors appointment on Friday morning. So, in I toddled. The doctor was making a flap about blood clots, lungs and “why didn’t you

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It’s Wednesday again….

“so what?” you ask. Nowt. I’m just saying. I’ve added a ‘Books’ category to the blog. Given that I spend more time every day reading than playing games (no, really!) and I finish more books than games (even the bad ones) I thought I may as well. I’m not going to attempt to populate it

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BBC NEWS | England | Dawn swoop by 500 police officers

Five men arrested. By 500 policemen. That’s 100 policemen each. They must have really expected a struggle. Imagine my surprise at finding that the five men were neither Jedi who had fallen to the dark side, nor mutants with terrifying supernatural powers but were, in fact, some young lads who happen to live on a

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