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• Faking a style sheet file to make alerts go away. #
• Oh good. Result. The rats have been checking out the bait. A few more days and I'll have to add some more. #
• Rats have started taking the bait. Quick off the mark, so rebaiting this evening and hoping they'll be gone before too long. #
• MTBLOG:MailSrever Test http://blogs.rbi.co.uk/editors/pt-test/2010/07/mailsrever-test.html #
• attending a perf of Charlie & Choc Factory at the Weald School, Beare Green #
• Champagne Cocktails – just for practice. Cork went over fence, unknown man said "Ow!". Oops! #

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• Time for a Pimms, relaxing in the garden. #
• RT @b3cft: may have found my new office chair http://bit.ly/c5hTLB < It says "Used" in the listing – was that with a pilot attached? #
• Bought >>96 diesel and asked for football medals; was given a bag with almost 200 inside. Daughter ecstatic! #
• Waiting for Shrek in 3d to start. Had to buy another set of the special glasses. we ought to keep this set in the car. #

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• Fun today removing problematic bits of Javascript from someone's blog. Actually the real cause can't be removed, just the bits it messes up. #
• Fault diagnosis: Developers: Please know what your code is supposed to do & what resources it uses b4 asking why it doesn't work! #
• Helping bloggers make posts in the right blogs!! #
• Well – that was an hour or so sorting out a memcached/MovableType bug (again!). Works OK now, so that's good. #

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• Raspberries, at last! #
• Hey, @O2, once again a really c**p signal here in the area south of Dorking. Bad all day today and not just for me – friends said how poor #
• Amazing real-time map of underground trains as they run around London http://tinyurl.com/3yu2f4t #
• After long long call @O2 confirm there is a "cellsite problem" in area south of Dorking. Why take so long admit a probem? #O2fail #
• TV one end of office, Internet viewers at the other: Cheers and gasps divided by short delay. #DigitalDivide ? #
• RT @kenwolf: I too use Java. 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70 <=Made me laugh out loud in the office (the video, that is!) #
• Off to the Cock & Bull for a beer. #
• Off to a wedding shortly. Long hot journey ahead. #
• Now stopped at the biggest dolls house shop possibly in the UK so Grace excited but I have to sit in car with air con and look after the … #
• Cake #
• Waiting for the bride to arrive #
• Ceremony done. Photos in progress #
• Amazing disco where djs are participating like i have never seen before http://www.dickropa.com #
• Questions that don't need an immediate detailed answer: Munch munch "Daddy, What's black pudding made from?" munch. "Err….Meat!". #

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• I am reverse enginineering smtp/mail configs on web servers. How we send email at all I just don't know! Forced config changes in store. #
• Off to do a school run on a pleasant sunny morning. #
• Time to catch up with a cup of nice Earl Grey tea. #
• Linguine with creme fraiche, a dash of olive oil, finely chopped mush and toms with fresh thyme, basil and chives from the garden. Mmmmm. #
• Bloglines has become irritatingly flakey of late – so now trying alternative feed readers and having to get used to different view/usage. #
• Looks like some dubious SIP calls from China into my Asterisk server are trying it on. #
• Looks like some dubious SIP calls from China are attempting to get into my Asterisk server. #
• Looks like Twitter refusing at ack tweets, but posting them anyway. #
• Just completed a valve regenerative radio kit. Aerial attatched and the first distinguishable sounds are a Vuvuzela chorus! It works. #
• Emptied shed to extract lawnmower – then it starts spitting with rain. Everything goes back. Try again tomorrow I think. #
• For the first time in a long while, sitting reading a Sunday Paper. Will nod off if I'm not careful! #

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• Relieved to discover that a small problem I found with New Scientist was set that way deliberately by the developers. No problem after all. #
• Last night's dreams seemed to be presented in HTML5 and Web 2.0 styles. #
• Holiday cottage now booked in Polperro. #
• Orange's on-line phone account management site is somewhat flakey and begins to make O2's look quite good in comparison. #
• How odd: after powercut last night, Joggler won't connect to LAN using WIFI without two DNS servers in its configuration. Hates DHCP? #

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• Waiting for a train at Ashtead. Off to the London Eye and the Planetarium at the ROG #
• Good cafe at ROG #

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• Eating a Wagon Wheel. #
• Occasionally I forget that I know far more about the systems I manage than the people who actually use them. #
• This morning's experiment with New Scientist produced a slightly unexpected result. #
• Home from an evening with good friends having had a really excellent meal at the Red Lounge, formerly Arty P's formerly The Jolly Butchers. #

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• Eeek! Humor is born out of truth. It still hits you hard, though. http://tinyurl.com/26wchhz #
• Looking at The Boys Own Paper Nov 1948 at design for valve radio; built it 25yrs ago – could I do it again? Or shall I try a modern kit? #
• Waiting for a telephone conference call to start……. #
• just lost a game of junior monopoly (but the result was engineered to keep the peace) #
• Trying to persuade my daughter to go to bed and go to sleep. #
• Further investigation of a Movable Type error message which does not tell the whole truth. #
• We seem to have far too much red on our web monitors right now. Somethings has stopped doing what it should. All sites going off-air…. #
• Time for a nibble from my new customised graze.com box – if you want a try a free box of goodness yourself, use code 1B3RVD7 #
• More Linux/Citrix shenanigins – successful this time. Now to see if it will work over 3G link as well! #
• My sister's boxer has just had a 10th puppy in litter, sixteen hours after the first. #
• now home. time for a beer #
• Busy day ahead fixng up systems for data ceneter power work. Changes required pose exciting challenges! #
• Long long copy in progress – will have to come back top the office later to perform further magic #
• Had chinese TA for supper. My very, very long copy has barfed. Working out how best to go forward now. #
• Well – that looks like the MT stuff working from the alternate DC – a few more files to finish copying, though! #

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• Much fun with Squid, Apache rewrite rules and proxying. It does what I want and I can prove it! #
• More bad Chinese e-mail harvesters have been stressing the MT installation; but no longer. #
• Joggler back on special offer from O2 again. #
• This morning's bread machine experiment, using honey instead of sugar, was very good. Sadly, rest of family did not like it. #
• Sending this from the Joggler running Ubuntu with Keyb & mouse attached. #

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