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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11
Sigh…perhaps why we need fewer quangos – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/10590460.stm # FIFA demonstrate their fuck-wittedness yet again. Who the Hell do they think they are? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10589713.stm # RT @iaindale: Am so appalled by both BBC & Sky coverage of the Moat events I have switched off. 24 hour news at its very worst. Ghoulish. # So…BBC Journos
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Why I WON’T be re-joining the Labour Party
In the period since the General Election here in the UK I’ve seen a fair number of blog posts and Facebook notes entitled ‘Why I’m rejoining the Labour Party’ – typically by folks who were members of the Labour Party at some point in the past decade and who left when Blair and Brown didn’t
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I was right to blame it on sunspots!
Early on in my consulting career – late 1980s, early 1990s – I did a lot of work for a public sector organisation. I worked on a number of projects – this was in the days when IT consultants could still be generalists, applying their skills to whatever was needed – and tended to specialise
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04
Happy July 4th to all my US friends – have a great day! #fb # Delighted to see #ger take apart #arg …. at least #eng managed one goal! # Debugging code and contemplating whether Russia needs any spies….. 🙂 # Bets of luck to #gha tonight – happy to see #hol win! # Keen
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The Movie Star and the Secret Weapon…..
This blog post was originally an article I had published in an amateur radio magazine some years ago…enjoy! Another example of how it’s often the ‘amateurs’ who deliver the goods. How about this for a movie script; an actress flees her homeland after it is taken over by a murderous dictatorship, and settles in the
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Chasing Cars
‘Chasing Cars’ is the name of a song by the band ‘Snow Patrol’. I quite like it – I’m a sucker for sad songs and this is a fine example of the genre. However, it has a little bit of ‘back story’. According to Wikipedia: “The phrase “Chasing Cars” came from [singer Gary ] Lightbody’s father,
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The world’s messy – get used to it
One of the great things about Twitter is that it brings articles to my attention that I wouldn’t otherwise have read. This blog post originated in one of those articles. It’s here – in it, the writer notes that managers and creatives tend to work on different chunks of time for getting things done –
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I now debug washing machines….
Ask most people in IT what the most irritating piece of kit in most PC installations is, and they’ll usually say ‘printers’ or ‘scanners’ – basically anything mechanical. I think the item in the house that generates the same degree of fear in me is the washing machine. To paraphrase ‘The Two Ronnies’ from my
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27
Gradually shaking off the after effects of that more disturbing dream from last night… # Just received worse phishing spam ever. Claimed to be from BoS, referenced RBS web site, signed off as from Lloyds and Halifx. #fail # Off to church on a beautiful morning! # A night of very odd and the occasional
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Configuring MOWES on a USB Stick
There’s an old saying that you can neither be too thin or have too much money. I’d like to add to that list – you can’t have too many web servers available on your PC. For the non-geeks amongst you, a web server is a program that runs on a computer to ‘serve up’ web pages.