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{ Monthly Archives } August 2007

Citi

I started my new job as an Analyst Programmer with Citi today and so far I don’t have a login, my own machine or a permanent pass card and I’m not completely sure what exactly it is I’ll actually be doing but I have mastered the use of the coffee machine. It’s all good [...]

2007 08 13 Clerical Comments (0)

MySQL upgrade

I finally got sick of not being able to use SQL subqueries and decided to upgrade my MySQL installation from 4.0.x to 5.0.x.
I had wanted to do this previously but was afraid I’d end up breaking something and be left without a working development environment or a website either, for that matter, so I resorted [...]

2007 08 07 Linux
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Neuromancer re-re-revisited

I was having a quick look through some second-hand books last weekend and happened across a copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson, the “father of cyber-punk”. I had to have it and this marked the third time I’ve purchased a copy of this seminal work.
I started into it on the bus home yesterday and it [...]

2007 08 03 Books
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