I, on the other hand, managed to dissolve two of mine today. Ok, they were both unknown quantities that had been rescued from a junk pile years ago and left to gather dust at home. Today I remembered them and took them to work to see if they’d be any use. A quick blast from …
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The conference wagon train stops at work next week – two hundred and fifty delegates, five days and some seriously hardcore materials science. On the basis of some photos I took at a wedding (as opposed to wedding photos which would have been done properly), I’ve been elected official conference photographer. Alas, this position does …
While trying to find one of the 472342 win2k install CDs I thought I had laying around the place, I came across a pile of ancient backups and debian/knoppix/gentoo install disks. In these blighted times, with identity thieves hiding around every corner and plundering every rubbish bag, the only sane course of action prior to …
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The new job is going reasonably well, I’m not sure that I’m over-keen at being introduced to people as the solution to all their troubles, but I hope I can be useful. Tomorrow I have to entertain, persuade and divert some industrial partner visitors. Progress on the project they are coming to see is pretty …
The door bell rang earlier – I answered it to one of the lesser seen neighbours carrying a laptop. “Hello, I’m Brian from number 18, I wondered if you could do me a favour, Tony says you are good with computers.” “Hello, Er, Ok. What’s the problem?” Brian had been using someone else’s WiFi connection …
