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09 Oct 2008
Last week I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit Old Billingsgate in London for the MISCO Expo ‘08. After standing in line for twenty minutes a good few hundred yards from the entrance I managed to get in and was pleasantly presented with a Wenger laptop backpack and a nifty wireless Kensington mouse. The venue was quite small but there were plenty of suppliers packed in.
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18 Sep 2008
I’ve been migrating some web site content over the last few days onto a new installation of Drupal. The original site is still in place but in order for the Drupal site to run properly I needed to install it to the site root and set it offline. Originally I’d redirected the domain URL to the old index.html page, but this caused a few problems for Drupal saving settings.
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14 Sep 2008
I run a number of web sites on a relatively cheap hosting service called Dataflame. My current bandwidth doesn’t let me run sites particularly well from home (just yet anyway), and the technical issues I’ve had sometimes have been infuriating, but for the price, I think the service is probably quite reasonable.
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10 Sep 2008
There are lots of different photo albums out there available to upload your photos to. I’ve looked before at flickr and I even have a photobucket account somewhere, but I had a situation recently where these didn’t quite fit my needs.
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10 Sep 2008
It’s been several weeks since I last posted something here. This is beause I’ve been rather busy preparing to get married, getting married, and then having a honeymoon. Anyway I’m back and I’d thought I’d write a little something about a little task I set myself a few days back.
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30 Jul 2008
As an IT enthusiast I have far too many computers. I won’t even begin to go into just how many and the various states of repair, but the point is I have more than one computer and from my other posts you may also have noted that I like to have my IT on the move.
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29 Jul 2008
As every good martial artist knows, duck the roundhouse kick to the head and you might just live long enough to be hit by the fist behind the beard of Chuck Norris. The question is how can his Walker Texas Ranger character manage to make those round house kicks to the head when his jeans fit so well?
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27 Jul 2008
I recently updated iTunes to version 7.7 on my XP desktop recently and today I plugged my iPod video in to synchronise. The whole thing froze up and iTunes effectively became non-responsive.
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26 Jul 2008
The thing about security in the digital age is that pretty much everything is governed by passwords. I have so many to remember these days that it’s just not funny any more. Some of them have particularly stringent complexity enforced on them making them that much harder to commit to memory … particularly as it’s full of obscure user IDs.
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26 Jul 2008
I teach a lot of students a lot of locks in my martial arts classes. This involves entangling and applying pressure to the joints of the body in order to cause a level of discomfort (pain) that allows someone to be controlled - be it wrist locks, arm locks, leg locks, shoulder locks, finger locks or head locks.
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