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Oh dear. “You have failed the practice citizenship test. Questions answered correctly: 13 out of 24 (54%) Time taken: 02 minutes 46 seconds “ Life in the United…
After getting so excited about figuring out what was up with the upgrade to 2009.06 I ran into another, more sticky problem. I rushed into reattaching the zones…
New {OpenSolaris} release: Yay ! Updater fails on beadm create, and manual attempts also fail: Boo ! After a lot of grumbling Googling down plenty of dead-ends it…
A friend at work has recently moved to Cambridge, and given that the weather has been improving a bit I put together a few things that might be…
I’m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need…
New version – new offset. Things are getting trickier now as I only have one machine that needs this hack, and that doesn’t have a live network connection…
Amazon blocks Phorm adverts scan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7999635.stm I hadn’t previously bothered to do this, as it seemed to be too early to say how Phorm would turn out and…
I’ve recently been tinkering with OpenSolaris 2008.11 and pkgsrc and have found what looks like a vi/vim typo in libtool-1.5.26 when trying to build the db4 database. In…
Excellent conversation with the eldest, E: E: You know that house on the TV where they have all those arguments ? N: Big Brother ? E: No, the…
There’s a rather neat screenshot of this Mac OS X calculator program over at the Soulver website. Particularly, it shows that it can (like Google) take plain English…
Cambridge has a traffic problem. It’s not the worst in the country I’m sure, but it’s problematic enough that various expensive and almost certainly fatally flawed schemes have…
It’s a purely personal milestone, but today marks the first time I’ve ripped a DVD (store bought) to a video file without watching the film itself. I’ve been…
I’m probably a little naive given that I work in computing, but after the number of years that Argos have managed to run a nice and simple online…
An extract from an email I’ve just received: “As we are trying to have a carbon free Christmas this year…” So, no Coal as a gift this year…
It’s cold, raining and windy, so time for high fat, high sugar food. Based on this recipe, but with some slight changes: 75g Butter 60g Demerera sugar 10ml…