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    The waters of Lethe

    Having a sad time at the moment. A whole heap of crap from over 30 years ago, most of which I don't remember, was thrown in my face by someone close to me.At least, I thought they were close.Then they proceeded to insult my house, the way I bring up

    Comments (0) . Sunday, 28 August 2005

    Selling England by the Pound

    I was out with Rob, a die-hard Genesis fan. We both used to listen to them a lot, but I was always loaned the vinyl - usually from Rob, I think.Anyway we were wandering around the Trafford centre (another essay needed on this edifice on another day).

    Comments (0) . Friday, 26 August 2005

    Open Source does not mean "on the cheap"

    I've just finished reading this and I'm thinking that it explains some of the malaise in the open source community:Simply put - suits think that using LAMP (look it up if you don't know what it is) is cheap. You don't have to pay the megabucks to I

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 25 August 2005

    August diary

    This has been a productive if frustrating month. I've got a lot done with my PHP project, I've had a 2 week holiday (now over a week), I've spent a lot of time with the family having a life.Then it's back to work and my boredom threshold has been hit

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 23 August 2005

    Wireless Linux - not so easy, more PHP

    I installed Mandriva Linux on an extra drive I put into my big server machine. Could not get the US Robotics wireless card to fly at all. Found some stuff on source forge but it didn't work for me (needed kernel source to build it - way too hard).Wen

    Comments (1) . Saturday, 6 August 2005