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Ramblings / May 23, 2007 / John / 2
Our old grey moggy passed away today. She’s been with us for near enough twenty years. She was a friendly, gentle cat who doted on the children, even when they yanked her tail. She was very cuddly, very affectionate and will be missed very much. She has a special place of her own now, between
Geekery / May 16, 2007 / John / 2
At last, I’ve settled on a mail configuration that I like, blocks viruses, is fast and has outstanding spam filtering. There’s a few bits to it, but essentially, it works like this: Mail arrives on port 25 (port forwarded through my firewall) where ASSP is listening. ASSP is, on the surface, a bog standard SMTP
Geekery / May 13, 2007 / John / 1
My daughter has a teddy bear called “Socket”. It’s unclear where he’s an RJ11, RJ45 or – god forbid – a straightforward ball-joint socket. I’m trying to encourage her in the direction of RJ45, but only time will tell.
Geekery / May 9, 2007 / John / 0
There’s nothing I love more than badly translated manuals and websites, and the homepage of KWorld is the best example I’ve seen in ages. Apparently: Want to have high quality digital TV, but not be able to give up analog TV? Annoyed by your big and ugly IT hardware which can’t fit in your stylish?
The Tube / May 7, 2007 / John / 0
What an absolutely beautiful movie – right up to the point where it suddenly has the most miserable ending in movie history. I’m now thoroughly depressed. Bah.
Geekery / April 30, 2007 / John / 2
Well, it always does really. I generally class the honeymoon period of a new job as the period of time between walking through the door for the first time and the moment where I type vi munge.pl. So, that halcyon period of belief that every single person around me has clue has ended horribly. A
Geekery, Ramblings / April 27, 2007 / John / 0
I love it when bloggable things happen at work. Due to a bizarre experiment involving a wall, a whiteboard, all the blu-tack in the universe and an infeasibly large number of natural language programmers, systems bods, and developers, we’ve managed to prove exactly what it says in the title. Technically, I suppose, it wasn’t the
Music, Ramblings / April 25, 2007 / John / 1
Or that’s how it seemed. After what seems like an eternity of listening to music on mp3 players and laptops, we finally got our nice shiny hifi set up last night. Between the big chunky toroid transformers and the fairy-dust powered magical crossover in Linn speakers, we dragged Nina off the surface of the disc
Ramblings / April 24, 2007 / John / 1
Urm. Well, it’s been a bit busy of late. On the gaming front, I was playing Castlevania – Portrait of Ruin until I met a boss that killed me and set me back an hour. I was also playing Lost Magic, but then I met a boss who killed me and set me back an
The Tube / April 22, 2007 / John / 0
The Killer Shrews, made in 1959, is everything a B-movie should be. Really really bad, really really funny, and awesome entertainment. IMDB give this film 2.5/10 which is probably 2.5 more than it actually deserves in terms of artistic merits, but who cares! Ray Kellog manages to direct this truly dreadful script with flair and