Archive for January, 2009

  • Series or Parallel

    Series or Parallel

    I appear to have some difficulty when it comes to series. Inasmuch as I seem to be incapable of reading the whole series from start to finish. For example, at the moment, I’ve read the first three books of “The Dark Tower”, by Stephen King;...

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  • ACE Lyric #10

    ACE Lyric #10

    “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true,  or is it something worse?” Bruce Springsteen – The River

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  • RAID1 Woe

    RAID1 Woe

    Here’s an annoying thing. I have this box which is used as a development database by one of our dev teams. It’s a lightweight little thing – an HP ML110 quad-core jobbie with a couple of 500GB SATA drives configured as RAID1 using software RAID...

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  • The Winter King – Bernard Cornwell

    The Winter King – Bernard Cornwell

    The Winter King  is the first volume in Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord trilogy. It’s a retelling of the Arthur legends, but from a more historical perspective. Gone are the glittering castles, Knights in full armour, and magic wielding druids. They’ve been replaced by warrior tribes, mud, mental...

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  • Phantasy Star Universe (360)

    Phantasy Star Universe (360)

    Hasn’t been much point in updating my Game Diary of late as I’ve not really been playing very many games, with the exception of PSU. I’m a long-standing fan of the Phantasy Star series and managed to run up a bit of a monster phone...

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  • The times they are a changing

    The times they are a changing

    Just a quick post while I’m waiting for a CD to burn. Here’s the thing: back in, ohhh, 1994 or 1995 – I don’t recall exactly when, but the first build of Slackware Linux had just been released – I had this idea that, as...

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  • Shakespeare in Ned

    Shakespeare in Ned

    A brief google appears to indicate that no one seems to have taken the time to translate any of the works of William Shakespeare into the dialect of Neds. This is a crime. If only I had the time or energy to put it right.

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  • Wonderings and Ponderings

    Wonderings and Ponderings

    I wonder if using a garish and hideously bright wordpress theme could consitute an actual act of assult. See, I like this one – I munged it many years ago when the intertubes were less slick that they are now, and it reminded me (at...

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  • ACE Lyric #9

    ACE Lyric #9

    “His skin’s all covered in slimey lumps, with lips that slide across his cheeks, his twisted limbs like rubber stumps, slubberdygullions on squeaky feet.” Genesis – The Colony of Slippermen

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  • Who Knew?

    Who Knew?

    This post was made from Windows Live Writer and it’s actually surprisingly nice! And that’s the only purpose to the post. I have nothing more to say about that.

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