Category: Ramblings

Old postings ahoy!

As you can see by glancing at the rapidly expanding archive section on the right, I’ve started importing our old uJournal entries into MoveableType. It’s really good to see them again – there were some splendid adventures in 2002/2003. There were some really crap things as well – house burning down, being made redundant while

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Removal firms

We’ve started to receive spam from removal firms. Literally the day after our house went on the market, the spam started arriving. One thing removal firms should know is that I will not reward companies who spam me by giving them business. I’m quite capable of organising a removal firm by myself, thank you very

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entourage + exchange server = The Pain! The Pain!

Gaaaaah. Ok, so my exchange account at work has a shed-load of mail in it. Ideally, what I’d like to do is use e2sync (or similar) to synchronize my address book and calendar with .mac, allowing me to then sync with Apple Address Book and iCal at home. In order to do that, though, I

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Old stuff

The import of my old ujournal entries is chuntering along – there’s a couple of scattered entries from 2002 showing up. I’m going to wait until the import is completely finished before moving them to moveable type though.

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Bouncy children

Yikes! We were round at a friends halloween party last night. The house was stuffed full of about a million kids, all of whom were strung out on pepsi, sweeties and god knows what other dubious edibles. By the time we got them home, the kids were absolutely manic – wee darting eyes. Needless to

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Iiiiiiiiiiiit’s Osama!

Well, who would have thought it. Three days ’til the U.S. Elections, Bush and Kerry are neck and neck, and whaddaya know – that Bin Laden chap pops up again to give any wavering voters a good ol’ chill down the spine, just in case they were swithering about which way to vote. The cynic

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According to the BBC…..

“Cash machine networks could soon be more susceptible to computer viruses, a security firm has warned. The warning is being issued because many banks are starting to use the Windows operating system in machines.” Well, no surprises there. It begs the question – why do ATMs need to run a windowing system? There was no

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Recursive Pachydermic Snufflings

Effie the elephant isn’t so much an elephant as an elefumble. The difficulty comes when her nasty habit becomes apparent. Effie is known to frequent the darker and danker regions of the less salubrious airports where she indulges in her passion for luggage snuffling. She snuffles luggage. In a word, she snorts trunks. With her

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Christmas approaches from the east on black wings.

Well it does, and there’s no escaping it. Two salaries till the big day and one salary is entirely spoken for by estate agency fees :-/ The boys are keen on an import Nintendo DS, but that aint going to leave much room to maneuver. We’ll see what happens. Our house went on the market

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