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Foreboding

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8094

The above is an inaccurate tell of the number of steps I took today.

The number would have been more accurate but for the fact that I only calibrated my latest gadget on my return home after a hard day’s work building Macs and ThinkPads for the undeserving hoi polloi.

In an unexpected and long [...]

One for sorrow

I saw an unusual site this week on the balcony of delight, a bird which I’ve certainly not seen feeding there before.

Hanging off the bars of the fat cake feeder was a mature magpie, pecking with gusto at the fat cake. I’d seen a blue tit zoom away from the balcony into a tree [...]

Windoze

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Who wants to be a millionaire

I do!

Slackware revisited

My Slackware hard drive recently died. It had been running Slackware since version 10, had seen countless installations, updates, re-installs and kernel changes. So after about 5 years of being on constantly it was not totally surprising when it began choking and freezing when trying to do anything more demanding than caching web pages from [...]