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{ Monthly Archives } June 2006

Where Old Code goes to Die

Well, I’ve started a million different projects and finished none, so in an effort to quell the sense of dis-ease I’ve went back to whatever seemed nearest to completion before I abandoned it…
…which has meant getting stuck back into Classic ASP and MS-SQL, not nice for a Linux-fanboy-wannabie like myself
Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask [...]

2006 06 28 Clerical
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Oldboy

After having it recommended it me months ago and having a copy of it gathering dust for nearly as long, I finally got around to watching Oldboy on Saturday night.
Twisted and dark is the only way I could describe this movie. It begins with the main character, Oh Dae-Su, drunk and in a police station. [...]

2006 06 27 Movies Comments (2)

Jabber

I’ve been deep in Linux-country for the past 2 days and have finally gotten a Jabber server up and running, along with the MSN transport.
I’m suprised I succeeded to be honest, but by following the instructions It Just Works. jabberd is listening on nulltheory.com, so I can be contacted via ’steve’ at that domain (having [...]

2006 06 23 Linux
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Postfix(ed)

After much frustration I gave up on using Virtual Mailbox Domains and gave Virtual Alias Domains a go instead, and it worked!
I wanted to set my mail server up like that of a commercial webhost and not have to rely on having to create a local account for each mailbox, but my Linux-fu isn’t that [...]

2006 06 21 Linux
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Snootchie Bootchies

Instead of working, I’ve been reading a series of entries on Kevin Smith’s blog about Jason Mewes and his struggle to get clean [Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9].
Not only can you read about the origins of the immortal “snootchie bootchies” but Silent Bob also talks about the countless rounds of [...]

2006 06 20 Movies
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Candy And A Currant Bun

Just finished tweaking the site presentation, the background image was begining to embarass me.
Some work with Photoshop and playing with a couple of colour choosers and viola, a new
look. I love the flexibility of CSS, especially when combined with the appropriate tools.
Now if I could only get my mail server working properly…

2006 06 20 Meta Comments (0)

Let Them Eat Cake

I was chatting to Phil yesterday and we got to talking about the antics in the staff room at break time:

2:52 PM Philip: what you up to atm then?
me: trying to transfer a site over from one hosting account to another…
2:53 PM pain in the ass
Philip: i imagine so
any more biscuit [...]

2006 06 15 Clerical
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X-Men: The Last Stand

Saturday night I decided to catch up with current going ons in the world of cinema, so I put on the latest installment of the X-Men franchise.
I’d had a typical Saturday: I went to the afternoon meeting, fortified myself with some strong coffee afterwards and then hit the pool and did my usual 70-lengths [...]

2006 06 05 Movies Comments (0)

Windows Genuine (?) Advantage

I made the mistake of blindly installing all the Windows Updates on my machine at work yesterday and so installed the lastest version of Windows Genuine Advantage… When I was creating a Ghost image for of our new desktops I didn’t have access to our legitimate Volume License Code and so just used a pirated [...]

2006 06 02 Windows Comments (0)