My blog software, WordPress , has been nagging me to upgrade it for a few days now. It's normally an easy process: go to the website, download the tar archive, untar into a temporary directory, then cp -a the files into my blog's Apache virtual host directory. However, Aq noticed a slightly easier way: use […]
There are things in life that suck. This list is not of things that suck, it's of things that are awesome. My job ; pursuant thereof, San Francisco , and regular trips thereto (next one in December); additionally, the stupidly weak US dollar Apple Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" Beechams Flu Plus caplets The Crystal […]
Wow. Avro Vulcan XH558 is back where she belongs: in the sky. Takeoff: Flight: See also: " seen over market harborough " . Landing: Brilliant, just brilliant. Looking forward to seeing her at RAF Leuchars next September, if not sooner!
Finally, I've managed to get the LugRadio IRC Quotes Database back online on the day that the large gents released LugRadio Season 5 's first episode . I've migrated from rash to Chirpy! — the same qdb used by the Mozilla Foundation , amongst others. This migration has been a long time coming, and hopefully […]
Sky, in their infinite wisdom, have rolled out an update to Sky+ boxes to put them into standby mode automatically if they aren't "used" (Sky's term is "no activity", i.e. pushing a button on the remote) for two hours between 11pm and 4am. This is all in the name of saving electricity, lowering carbon footprints, […]
Yes, I'm in Rant mode again; just sent this to PC Pro magazine: To: letters@pcpro.co.uk From: neuro@well.com Subject: Wishlist Hi PC Pro Letters, I was pretty disgusted to note the completely haphazard manner in which David Fearon researched and documented Ubuntu Linux's "downsides" in your "Who's Killing Windows?" feature (p122, issue 156). He references the […]
It's time for another Cram Post , Neuro Style. june » to san francisco for a couple of weeks to acclimatise to linden lab culture and processes, very chilled yet productive fortnight, i can now convert pounds sterling to/from US dollars and PDT to/from BST in my head; july » had great fun trying to […]
Got back from Develop at Brighton at the weekend. Got some choice quotes from the couple of days I was there. "Do you do a fish butty?" (asked in the fish and chip shop next to the Hilton Metropole) "This is fucking awful!" (said by an unknown woman to Peter Molyneux outside the Hilton) "I'm […]
Today, I start my new job working as a Distributed NOC Engineer for Linden Lab , developers of Second Life . This is the crest of a hill I've been climbing since early March, when I was made redundant from my last job: I spent a few minutes converting my rich text CV to plain […]