Archive for August, 2008

  • New beginnings

    New beginnings

    You may have noticed that this website has taken on a new look.  There's a reason for this. In the past I've used strange, esoteric software to create my websites - the last one was made using something called GreyMatter.  While this works OK, it's ...

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  • Blowing the roof

    Blowing the roof

    I've just got off the 'phone with Roofing Group UK, and just about managed to keep my cool - it would appear that the "boss" is on holiday in Spain, and won't be back until the end of September. Only then will he ...

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  • Prisoner of Door

    Prisoner of Door

    Today has most certainly not gone well. Aside from the roofers continued lack of communication, there's another joy to add to my overflowing pot - and it concerns my door. I got up this morning bright and early, eager to trundle off to work. ...

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  • Roof is leaking

    Roof is leaking

    Well, I just got a very rude awakening about an hour ago - a leak in my extremely expensive new roof causing water to drip down from the ceiling in my computer room, all over my not-inexpensive collection of crap. For joy. The problem, ...

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  • RiscPC: It lives!

    RiscPC: It lives!

    Well, I couldn't wait until Sunday - so I've pieced the RiscPC back together and fired it up... And it works absolutely perfectly. Turns out it's actually a Zip 250, which is nice - and all the insides work splendidly. The keyboard I ...

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  • Dumpster diving

    Dumpster diving

    Walking home through the business park where my current day job is located the other day, I spied a skip with a rather interesting device sticking out of the top - an Acorn RiscPC. A nice one, too - a double slice unit. Further ...

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  • Busy bee

    Busy bee

    Well, I've been lax in updating this 'ere site - but with good reason. My new job is keeping me extremely busy, and conspires with my commitments to bit-tech to keep me away from anything that might resemble free time. Case in point - ...

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  • First day

    First day

    Well, I've survived the first day of my new job. Everyone seems really nice, and there's certainly plenty to keep me busy. Between a full audit of software and hardware, the installation and configuration of an internal WSUS server, and sundry other tasks it ...

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