Tag: wayback machine
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A painful event
Last Friday, I went to see my local GP about a rather annoying sebaceous cyst in my right shoulder. It was inflamed and sore, and had already been there for a week, so he put me on flucloxacillin, 2g per day. Jump to Wednesday morning, nothing much has happened, though the rate of growth has…
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Fiddling with laptops
Someone at worked asked me to take a look at their old laptop for them – apparently it wouldn’t boot, wouldn’t even power on some days, and generally was being a pain. I agreed to take a look at it, and see if I could get any data off of the drive. The owner offered…
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Playing with ISDN
As I work on the current big project at $work, I’m getting more exposure to ISDN (otherwise called It Still Does Nothing by my boss), and the tools used to diagnose ISDN connectivity issues. We’ve got a few bits of kit lying around here, including handsets that can emulate a PBX or monitor an ISDN…
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Back in the coding saddle
Well, one of the things I expected to happen with the job change last year was the return of my energy to write code for random projects. After several years of coding for a living, any desire to pick up a keyboard and hack on either my own projects ( or public projects ) was…
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Hey ho, another year
Well, I’m officially a year older, and it’s also 2008. Suppose I should bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies for $work, given the apparent tradition of ‘bring treats in on your birthday’.
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Out and about
I’m currently sitting in a Premier Inn room in Crawley, West Sussex – a few miles from Gatwick Airport. “Why?”, I hear you ask (or maybe not [and my English is failing me, is that comma right?]). Just to pick up a friend tomorrow – it was easier to do the 122 miles today in…