Category Archives: Life

Stuff that actually happens ;-)

Jump In! Camp

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Chris

I’ve been invited alongside two fellow phpBB developers to attend Microsoft’s Jump In! Developers’ Campnext month in Switzerland to learn about interoperability between Microsoft’s software stacks and PHP applications. For more information on how to attend this event read on … Continue reading →

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One enormous footer

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Chris

Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Registered Office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales, number 2065. Telephone: 020 7626 1500. Bank of Scotland plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland, number 327000. Telephone: … Continue reading →

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Why do I bother?

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Chris

Updated my desktop from Ubuntu ‘Jaunty’ 9.04 to Ubuntu ‘Karmic’ 9.10, the upgrade process worked flawlessly. Sadly the number of regressions has kind of taken the shine of the various improvements to the distribution. The big kicker for me is … Continue reading →

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How customer service should be

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Chris

Awesome and entertaining customer service from IWOOT! I’m sorry to hear about this, but thank you for letting us know. I’ve just sent a request for a new one to be sent out to you, so you should receive it … Continue reading →

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Mah Pizza

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Chris

Thanks Will! and Kenny.

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New Year Server Crash

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Chris

My server for some reason unknown to me crashed last night, in the middle of new year festivities. Extracts from my logs show the, hopefully, coincidental timing of it. Dec 31 23:56:15 sandman rsnapshot[11655]: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.d/mail.cs278.org hourly: completed successfully … Continue reading →

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Three Years Old

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Chris

I know I started this blog in December 2005 but I wasn’t quite sure when, so I took a nose and it turns out it was December 7th which means this blog is three years old today. In three years … Continue reading →

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First Lines

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Chris

Below I will put a list of first lines from thirty songs can you name any of them, without resorting to Google or other search engines. Post a comment if you can identify them and I will cross them off … Continue reading →

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BAM Vulnerabilities

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Chris

BAM is a company that provides services to Students Unions around the country primarily dealing with union websites. My Students’ Guild signed up with them last year to provide our website, from the off I was quite opposed to the … Continue reading →

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Back to Exeter

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Chris

The time has come once more for me to return to Exeter, for my final year of my undergraduate Computer Science degree. I’m looking forward to moving in with new people so much, to be honest I have been wanting … Continue reading →

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