Talks

Talks

Been busy as usual. 😀 The hacking on my new site is going pretty well, but I am only really allocating time for it at weekends. I tend to spend Saturday night from about 1.30am until I pass out hacking on stuff. The new site is getting there, despite the usual...
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Events

Fun weekend. Met up with friends on Saturday night, and I also met up with the band on Sunday. We have had some time off due to an injury with our drummer Jon. We are all looking forward to getting back into it. In addition to this I spent some time on Saturday...
Multimedia

Multimedia

I am not going to talk about London – the bastards responsible want the attention. My sympathies are with the victims and my hatred are with the responsible. Well, the LUGRadio: Live and Unrestrained video is finally released. Go grab a torrent. Getting this...
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Mucho goodo

First things first. Software patents have been thrown out. This sounds pretty final as Dave Neary points out. This is fantastic, utterly, utterly fantastic. Tonight happens to be a LUG meeting, and we are all going to celebrate – Kat is even baking a cake. Last...
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Yo

Hacked some more on the shopping cart – small look and feel fixes. The problem with projects such as this is that they can turn into a life dominating project. I have another five projects to write, so that best not happen. 😛 Today I worked on an IBM...
Multimedia

History lesson

Spent some time hacking a shopping cart that I wrote about a year ago into a usable state for the book. This involved the usual process of converting all the crufty old crap that was the peak of knowledge back then into all the new stuff I have learned since. Hacking...
Desktop bits

Desktop bits

I am knackered. this week has been a long and tough one, mostly due to a lack of sleep since last Thursday. Despite walking around like a zombie, I managed to get lots done and its been a productive week. Luckily, things are starting to settle down now a bit at work....
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LRL finishes

Well, LUGRadio Live 2005 is finally over. It was a stunning weekend and incredibly heartening that such a vibrant community could pull together to pull off such a memorable event. We are so proud of everyone. Even Pickle. 😉 I am not going to iterate through the series...
LUGRadio Live kicks off

LUGRadio Live kicks off

Not much blogging recently, mainly because I have been flat out with work. The last few weeks has been utterly insane. That is not an understatement – I have literally not rested hardly at all. So, this is the big weekend. LUGRadio Live 2005 kicks off tonight...
Bits

Bits

Spent today catching up on various bits and bobs. The next few weeks are pretty busy – I have quite a few meetings, training courses and other projects we are working on. There is some pretty exciting work going on, and I am looking forward to getting stuck into...