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Entries from June 2005

Timing is everything

June 30th, 2005 · No Comments

Yesterday I went on a bit about Google Earth. It appeared that the guys at google opened up the sign-up to it for a while today as I managed to get it installed on my box at work (Yesterday I only got to see it on someone elses PC) and have a good old […]

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Tags: Books · Cool · Tech

Google Earth

June 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Well I got a look at Google Earth at work this lunchtime and it looked bloody good. So I wait until I get home to install it on my laptop and what do I find: -
Google Earth downloads temporarily delayed
Thanks for your interest in Google Earth, but we’re sorry we can’t offer you […]

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Tags: Cool · Tech · Rant

The hazards of being a data junkie

June 28th, 2005 · No Comments

I have a lot of data. That is to say I have a lot of data and it’s not very well organised. Somehow I have managed to accumulate about a Terabyte of stuff on my servers. Now I know what your thinking - “that’s a lot of Porn”. Well no, I’m not some obsessive […]

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Tags: Tech

Wiki wa wa

June 20th, 2005 · No Comments

One thing I love to do is to spend a bit of time on Wikipedia filling in gaps and adding little snippets of information. I guess it’s just the know-it-all in me forcing its way to the surface. I’ve just spent the evening adding pages about an island in Indonesia I’ve never been to […]

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Tags: Life · Tech

Serious

June 16th, 2005 · No Comments

If, like me, you think software patents are evil go here.

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Tags: Code · Tech · Politics · Rant

Old World Underground, Where Are You Now

June 16th, 2005 · No Comments

I’ve been hearing a lot about Ruby on Rails. So at the weekend I thought I may as well give it a go and installed it on my hosting, but as usual I still haven’t got round to spending any amount of time with it. I’d almost totally forgotten about it and it […]

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Tags: Books · Code · Music · Language

Go Sun!

June 14th, 2005 · No Comments

Great news. Those marvelous people at Sun Microsystems have today announced that my favourite Operating System, Solaris, is now Open source!! Find out more about opensolaris here.
You can’t believe how happy this makes me. I’m such a Geek.

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Tags: Cool · Tech

You spin me round like a record baby

June 6th, 2005 · No Comments

This is rather cool.
and this made me laugh.

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Tags: Cool · Entertainment

Moving in

June 5th, 2005 · No Comments

Well it’s been a week since I moved over from blogger so I thought it’s about time I made the effort to post.
Not that I have much to say at the moment. I’m just getting used to the blogging software, wordpress and trying out various styles for the blog. I’m looking to put […]

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Tags: Tech · Blogging