It's snowing!
Finally, after days of waiting, it’s decided to snow. Unfortunately although the flakes are big ones it’s not settling on the ground because it was raining this morning too. It’s still snowing though so there’s hope yet!
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It's rather hot…
…in the server case. Seems the fan has decided to pack in so it’s rather warm and has already caused 2 crashes in 2 weeks in a machine that’s not needed a reboot in months.
When is a router not a router?
Found this url on a mailing list and figured it was just too funny not to share. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html
Storing Perl structures…
I’ve been looking at alternatives for storing Perl structures within a database such as MySQL. Here are the main contenders: Storable (freeze/thaw) XML::Dumper Data::Dumper
What's worse than…
…monsters under the bed? Lots of little insects in the flour.
What supports the XML-RPC Blogger API?
I’ve googled for stuff and read a load of websites but can’t find much information about it or applications that support this feature of Movable Type. Any pointers, let me know by posting comments here!
A car.. not mine..
This is really just a test for uploading an image through Movable Type but it’s going to get published anyway. This is a picture of the car that we rented when we went on holiday to Texas earlier this year - it was really quite large and spacious and I hope we have …
Home Alone 4!
Just received an email newsletter from Twentieth Century Fox regarding the latest releases on DVD and Video in October and it mentions that Home Alone 4 is due out on the 20th October. Another one!? If I happen to see this one (probably not), I’ll be sure to let you know if …
the search for extra-terrestrial life continues
My seti@home stats are going up somewhat faster now I’ve remembered to restart the client on my linux desktop! Your rank out of 4721304 total users is: 76172nd place. The number of users who have this rank: 29 You have completed more work units than 98.386% of our users.
SOAP (no, not that sort)
I’ve been playing around with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) in Perl recently. The example I wrote seems nice and straightforward and should even work with .NET thanks to some pointers from Rob.
Jabber MSN transport upgrade
The jabber server I run for myself and a few friends recently had the MSN transport upgraded… It went to 1.2.8rc1 from 1.2.8pre3 and seems to actually run normally instead of crashing out unless run in debug mode like the last version. Source for use with jabberd-1.4.2 can …
Alas poor comments
You probably didn’t notice unless you’re a regular visitor (in which case “Hello again!”), but I’ve had to disable posting of comments to the entries in this blog. This is due to having had the number of comments double overnight thanks to some …
Day tripper
Decided to “nip to the beach” today.. of course, starting from Nottingham means that any real beach is a good few hours drive away. Rather than go to Skegness as most people from Nottingham seem to, we journeyed that little bit further and went to North Wales instead! …
Reading material
Recently started reading Jonathan Kellerman books and found they’re quite good. The main character is Alex Delaware, a psychologist who helps out the police with cases. Definitely a good read if you like crime/detective type books. The one I just finished reading was …
blog updated
Updated Moveable Type (the blog backend) today. Can’t see any changes so far.
Number crunching
Checked my personal seti@home stats just now.. in the top 86,000 now! Your rank out of 4524207 total users is: 85971st place. The number of users who have this rank: 47 You have completed more work units than 98.099% of our users.
Video streaming
Recently spent a couple of days building VLS/VLC packages for debian ‘sid’ unstable. Having patched in Video4Linux support, and with the aid of a cheap BT878 TV tuner card in my linux box sending out multicast data, I can now watch TV upstairs on the other PC.
One man went to mow
Mowed the lawn last weekend for the first time in over six months! Unfortunately it now looks like it’ll need mowing again this coming weekend.
Kitchen update
Well, the appliances are finally wired in - just need to put the sponge strip around underneath the hob, fasten the extractor fan hose onto the top, and screw the oven into the cabinet and we can use it. The splashback is going to cause some problems due to the worktop not going …
Hospitals
After having spent Sunday night in hospital with suspected appendicitis, I can say that it’s really not something I want to do again in a hurry. Thankfully I was feeling much better by the morning and was discharged before lunch. Never did fully figure out what was wrong …
Tip of the day/month/whenever
Never mount devfs over /dev - it rather breaks the system until after a forcible reboot!