Thoughts On The Book “The End Of Mr. Y”
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I bought the book “The End Of Mr. Y”, by Scarlett Thomas, as a Christmas gift but for a number of reasons I ended up reading it and I am glad I did, in fact …

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Font Management
Monday, 4 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

The Font Thing[1] is the tool I have oft used for font management but in particular font browsing. A lot of the work I do is also design related, websites, ads, brochures, etc so …

Short of Space
Friday, 1 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

Like Monk’s Computer Room, space is getting a bit tight in my computer room. There is only room for one rack cabinet and its full. I think at some point I am going to need …

Day Two under my belt
Friday, 1 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

I got through day two of my new low-carb regime just about.
Day three has been a bad day. I’ve been grumpy all day and the thought of visiting the vending machine for a light snack …

AIX FTP Permissions
Friday, 1 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

FTP permissions on our new AIX build were coming up as rw-r–r– but they needed to be rw-rw-rw-, this was achieved by setting the UMASK in inetd.conf to add the flag
ftpd -u0and re-freshing the inetd …

Premium Bonds
Friday, 1 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

Another month, another non-winner. Since I’ve had my premium bonds two years ago I’ve amassed winnings of a whopping zilch, nada, zip. Checking the winner list shows that quite often the million pound winners …

DSE Assessments
Friday, 1 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

We are starting DSE[1] (Display Screen Equipment) Assessments today and already it’s highlighting my fears with these sort of assessments; that the assessments, if not conducted properly in the right spirit, may be treated as …

Google Calendar Mobile
Friday, 1 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

Following an article in IT Pro[1] reporting that Google had launched a mobile version of its Calendar application, which I have been trying for around a month, I hesitantly fired up calendar.google.com in my mobile …