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it’s a girl !

At 9:57am this morning, Nicci gave birth to our second daughter, Abi, weighing 8lb 13oz (just as it started to snow). Both mother and daughter are doing fine,…

server crash

Well, that was fun. Trying to copy off the websites I want to keep live whilst playing with the server, and it goes and crashes. Total lockup, with…

friday ramblings

I got sent a link to this article which discusses the usage of Windows at Sun. I just had to pass comment… (Sorry Douglas). Reads like an account…

us, uk, un and iraq

Oh yeah. Sure. The UK hasn’t decided what to think over Iraq. That’s why there’s been more aircraft activity over my house in the last 48 hours than…

socks, washing and airmiles

Looking in my sock drawer this morning, a few things came to mind – the first was why do I keep getting different pairs of odd socks ?…

applescript, itunes and speech

I like iTunes on my iBook, but I often forget the name of a track (I just listen to the album[s] whilst programming) so thanks to the hotkey…

koyaanisqatsi, powaqqatsi and naqoyqatsi

Hmm, nice. The dispute over the rights to publish the film appear to be over, and you can now order Koyaanisqatsi on DVD in it’s full anamorphic widescreen…

server reboot

Oh joy. Another crash. Around 03:30, and yet again, no clues in the log files.

server reboot

Great – another unexplained reboot, along with an httpd deamon that refused to start. Time to begin downloading NetBSD RC3, I think…

movie linkage

I saw The Faculty last night, and quite enjoyed it – especially imdb spotting actors and previous roles. There’s also a link between

hard drive sadness

My Mac decided to play games with me, and so far it seems to have morphed into a PC 🙁 I had decided that I needed to clear…

linking silliness

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javascript popup windows

Nope, I *hate* innapropriate JavaScript with a passion, but this page has a great idea for those of you who feel the urge to open new browser windows…

neoprene case

I’ve also started planning a neoprene case for an iBook. No, I don’t have one (yet), but that doesn’t stand in the way of a good idea… Unfortunately,…

calendar

Having upgraded to version 0.6pre4 of b2, I’ve now integrated the b2 calendar function on the top right of each page. Not sure if the extra rendering time…