Site maintenance

Some time in the next couple of weeks, there’s a possibility that some/all the Slovenia snowboarding photographs will be unavailable – sorry about that. As part of moving house and the odd (to my mind) way PIPEX handle house moves, I have to completely cancel my old account, then create a new one from scratch… Continue reading Site maintenance

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Catching up

It’s been a week of catching up on the drinking front. When I say ‘catching up’, I mean that it was Mistress Shepster’s birthday last week, but as she was running the London Marathon on Sunday, she was unable to partake in a celebratory birthday tipple… so had to celebrate all over again this week,… Continue reading Catching up

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Stuff to do over easter

Easter. The time of love, faith and dancing naked through the spring fields. Or stuffing yourself full of chocolate and moaning at the telly (“Moonraker? Again?”) – its up to you. Me, I’ve got plans, exciting plans, and as it’s lunchtime and I’ve stuffed myself full of carbohydrate, I’m going to tell you so I… Continue reading Stuff to do over easter

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Comedy king of spam

This is really old news – I actually remember when it happened, but I was reminded of it again having received Bruce Schneier‘s excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter this morning. Crypto-Gram is “A free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on computer security and cryptography.” and is generally both worth reading, and not impossible for… Continue reading Comedy king of spam

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Boring techy stuff

At least some of yesterday and today have been spent beginning an installation of Gentoo Linux. Gentoo Linux is a build from source distribution which (in theory) allows you to fully customise not only the sofware you wish to install, but to optimise it for your particular hardware through the use of compiler switches and… Continue reading Boring techy stuff

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