Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_360" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Canvey Island postcard from www.canveyisland.org.uk"][/caption]
I'm an eternal optimist. I went to the UK a few weeks ago for a party with some old friends in Lancaster, but stayed first with my parents on Canvey Island. Canvey Island has its detractors, but I grew up there and ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Jess asked me what was going on with bloggerunited.com yesterday, as there's currently only a domain-parking page there. I had a quick search online, and found LithiumMind's blog that suggested it was suffering from bandwidth exhaustion last month. I often wondered how much bloggerunited was paying for bandwidth, as they ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
I tested the spider at spider.my a few times recently. It was previously restricted to just a few sites that their respective admins had kindly volunteered. One of the immediate problems I noticed with releasing the spider in the wild was the number of pages I was mangling between storage ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
I saw this on slashdot, and just had to make sure you didn't miss it. I would pay extra for good quality ethernet cables. Since I moved to Malaysia, I've been buying 3 ethernet cables for every 1 that has proven reliable. Broken wires, bad joints with pins in the ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
People ask me where I'm from. I'm from the UK. I grew up in the South East of England, on Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary. Around age 20 I moved to the Lake District, and settled for a while near Lancaster. I have very fond memories of Lancaster and ...
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