I didn't sleep well last night. I lay awake from about 5 a.m., and eventually realising that I wouldn't get back to sleep, got up at 5.45 ( Read more... )

to the hard drive, which IBM invented on 13 September 1956 (it says here (Engadget)).


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the Tivo crashed yesterday, and has removed (it seems) some of the utilities we put on there, not least the "ls" command.

it took a non-techy to remind me that a GUI-based FTP client would do the job very nicely.

I've been assimilated ...

having cut my teeth on them doing the cookbook lookup on www.nibblous.com, I decided to address the subject of our DVD collection ( Read more... )

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this is now part of our in-house coding standards:

SELECT count(*) as dracula FROM image

when I arrived in the study this morning, things weren't entirely as they should be ( Read more... )

now, *of course*, we cannot get the wireless inkjet to talk to the wireless router.

I hate technology.

as detailed in earlier posts, we are the lucky owners of a shiny new Powerbook. We were previously the owners of an older Powerbook, and are still the owners of a wireless router, which was only used by said older Powerbook (henceforth known as OP ( Read more... )

how true is this ?! Project Management in the real world ...