I know, I know, I haven't updated my blog in an absolute age, but I decided to give it a quick spring-clean (albeit towards the end of summer) and apply a very nice theme from Elmastudio . Hopefully nothing looks badly broken, but if it does, please let me know. In other news, blah blah […]
2010 heralds my fifth decade on this planet (and my 3rd on the interwebs). A history lesson, although not necessarily in a completely chronological order, shall follow shortly for your delectation. For those impatient, tl:dr types: Got born. Got named. Got fed. Got schooled. Got laid. Got job. Got paid. Geeked out. Spent too much. […]
I've decided to take a leaf out of Jemima 's book, and rip and sell all my music CDs . Why? Well, I have the following: a shitload of CDs a shitload of hard disk space a desire not to have my lounge cluttered with CDs any more, and an impetus to make a wee […]
Some of you who know me may know my fascination and infatuation for SmoothWall , the open source Linux firewall distro. You may be interested to know that I've decided to take my leave of the project after just over 7 years. To explain, I need to tell a story of how I got there […]
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 […]
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 […]
What? I'm 32 years old on the 30th of March, 2006. This means it's time for another drinking bash which, since 2004's debauchery [1] was nicknamed "neurothon", I've decided to call neurothon II: revenge of neurothon! As usual, my birthday seems to be falling on a random day — Thursday this year — so I […]
Last week, I bought a cheesy Pinnacle USB2 TV-in device. I really only wanted it for composite video in from a PlayStation2; the fact it had an aerial socket for analogue terrestrial TV wasn't a factor in the purchase at all. In fact the main purchase factor was that it was in stock at a […]
I've finally resurrected my meeja.net domain by re-registering it with godaddy.com . Why didn't I use gradwell.com , my regular registrar of over five years? Because godaddy also have some insanely cheap hosting — US$37/yr for 5GB of storage and 250GB of transfer a month. That's riduculously cheap. So what am I going to do […]