I’ve been awful about actually posting something on here. It’s not that I’ve not had stuff to post, as I have some MS Office stuff I wanted to document, and some other bits and pieces too, I’ve just been… swamped. I’ll see what I can get scribbled out. I should probably jot [...]

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I’ve been stuck in a rut again, not sure why.

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The BBC has an interesting story on the history of the Olympic torch. Quite interesting to see the power of “marketing”

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I’ve been having issues getting motivated on getting back to the gym. Mostly because I’m rather tired after getting back from work, or because I end up working when I get home. I’ve contemplated stepping out at lunch, and hitting the gym, but then I end up skipping lunch, which makes it hard [...]

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Well, I took the leap, and I’m now on WordPress 2.5. The admin interface is completely different, you can see a preview in this screencast. It’s going to take a little getting used to, but it looks interesting.

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I’ve quite often been called crazy, working until all hours of the day, cracking away to get things done. Trying to explain to people that for me, working 15+ hours a day is easy, and I consider it fun. Not many people get the opportunity to call what they do fun, but I [...]

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This year, I got roped into taking part in NADA 2008. While the prospect of doing yet another conference was not so appealing, the prospect of getting to a new city was interesting. This year, NADA is hosted in San Francisco, so the potential of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was pretty cool, [...]

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I’ve never been very good at keeping them, so I generally don’t try and make them. Instead, this year, I’m setting myself a couple of small goals..

Get out on my bike at least once a week Take more photographs (Project365) Work more on the 101, and 102 Strobist guides. Get to the gym at least 3 times [...]

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So, I couldn’t help but laugh… Of course, I’m a nerd, which explains it all… xkcd always seem to have some interesting stuff, but this one made me chuckle…

Oh, and happy new year.

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I’ve recently been toying with the idea of setting up a schedule for my home servers to be up. As the only time I really use them is whilst at work (to stream music from), I considered a simple script to power them down at a set time (18:00), and power it up before [...]

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