Nicholas Booth Dot Com

• Looking for a spare SIM for the GSM modem. Where have I put you to keep you safe? #
• Unfortunate 4×4 had skidded on ice and ended up on its side near Gadbook this morning. Happens at the same place everytime. #
• Must have missed the flood at Betchworth – was OK yestrday PM, this morning clear as well, but signs were up and a car abandoned by bridge. #
• Looking for a mini server to take 4 video cam feeds that will output over IP network WITHOUT needing IE to view the streams. #
• Coming to grief with GSM modem and memory of AT commands. #
• Daughter has started sending me SMS messages from SWMBO's mobile "Let's get G a present" and other mystery phrases #
• A blue-tit finally takes up residence in the box on the side of our shed. Still from NestCam: http://twitpic.com/177b0v "Having a snooze". #

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• WFH today. Citrix being a bit of a whatsit. Despite that., it's very peaceful and the view more relaxing than south London. #
• O2 to send a new b/b router as existing one has been restarting every few mins. all last night. At least OK now except set at slower speed. #
• Attempting to be diplomatic. #
• Playing with piped gzipping across ssh and running out of space again. #
• "This copy of windows is not genuine" Utter tosh! #
• Managed to get my #Chumby to display the 24hr power graph image from #Pachube every few minutes. #
• Off home now. Hope the river at Betchworth is still flooding the road! #
• Water subsided since this morning so need to wait for more rain #
• Off to look for water. #

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• An evening spent swapping video cards & bits between various old PCs so I can end up with something that works well enough for my desk. #
• "A disk may be failing: disk has many bad sectors". Time to stop now. #
• At last, a combination of parts which might be reliable enough to run my new Fedora 12 desktop. #
• Got a call from a Market Research co. who said they were my wife's bank (but would not say which one). 01233648505 Kay Smith who are you? #
• Hundreds of alarms on a major site seems to be a scary false alert! #
• Reading this helps decide what's for supper tonight: http://tinyurl.com/ygd4y5t #
• Well, that's all the stuff for supper prepared and ready to go. Now I deserve a beer from the homebrew calling me from the shed. #

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• Chasing paperwork for things people want me to do for them. #
• Looks like more regex fun coming up – this time for estatesgazette.com #
• Minor MySQL panic as replication stopped after a slave restart. Fixed now, so I can go home! #
• I must learn to find out if a problem is actually a genuine problem before trying to fix it especially when reported as such by end users. #
• Just back from spending a very fascinating 45 mins wandering in a chinese supermarket. Wonderful stuff everywhere. Quite hungry now. #
• Bought jasmine tea, lychees and Fortune Cookies (and some for the nursery). Tea and cookies delicious, not tried the lychees yet! #
• IT Architects asking how many of our blogs are brochureware but their definition was a bit wooly. More than I would have guessed. #
• Arduino kit has arrived from oomlout. Very nicely presented indeed. Surprised how small the Arduino itself is. #
• LED attached to Arduino: It blinks (just the way I tell it to!) #
• An opportinity just arose to rescue a damsel in distress. Of course, I took it. #
• Bloke in front of me earlier this evening in Tesco bought £500 of Euro lottery tickets. I hope I win. #

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• Have ordered an arduino starter kit from oomlout. Too many ideas. #
• Received second time around wedding invite from an old pal. Have suitable gap in diary. That's Good. #
• is getting confused trying to load up and work a dispenser for brown pacel tape. #
• Struggling with win s/ware Typing Instructor for Kids 4 which has no sound (and should) & won't register DLLs properly at install. Grrrr. #

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• Doing weird things with Movable Type imports. Might be very successful. #
• Early start today at 7:45. Canteen breakfast at desk. Multiple perl and wget site scrapes. Hope editor decides how many pages he really has. #
• This Movable Type import work really feels like voodo magic. It may even work! #
• Hooray: Site now running on Movable Type. Only slightly frayed (the site, that is). Me: happy. http://tinyurl.com/c5lo5q #
• more regex magic for microscope. #
• Finally upgrd firmware for my Grandstream BT200 VOIP phone by getting intermediate versions. GS Support didn't know it had to be this way. #
• It must have been the rasberry jam on my toast this morning that's put me in such a good mood today. Even my PDP work was almost fun! #
• School office messed up passing music bag to Grace so she missed piano lesson. Grrrr. #
• Home brewed beer still in good condition, if a little cooler than I'd prefer as it lives in the shed. It's jolly cold out there. #
• Client happy with new web site livery. Joy. What a way to spend a Saturday! #
• It is about 40 years since I was last here in Bentalls and it has changed a bit #
• Heinz Tomato soup, a swirl of fresh cream and some home made croutons = peace and calm. #

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• Might make interesting hack project: http://tinyurl.com/yb9f4br but would need to relocte my workshop. #
• If you look at http://tinyurl.com/yk3p5ae it looks like we've stopped showering. I have to be a plumber at w/end as electric shower broken. #
• Third mystery letter from Berlin arrived this week. More painted canvas type material inside. #
• Researching rocket construction; need 35mm film can and Alka seltza tablets. Maybe Freecycle will come up trumps on the film cans. #
• James May's thoughts on a Defender; good stuff. http://tinyurl.com/y9urfcx I would just love to lay one down for Grace. She'd be happy. #
• What's a bit? http://tinyurl.com/ye6nja5 #
• Successful rocket launch completed with daughter; 35mm film can, cardboard, gaffer tape, water & alka seltza. http://twitpic.com/z3mnw #
• My nephew: Cheeky, but NSFW RT @PeteNottage: Crudely-drawn cocks plus amazing animation equals http://tinyurl.com/yf8y5xg #
• Electric shower replaced. Plumbers need have no fear for their jobs, though. #
• Hooray! Postman has delivered Amazon package with "Practical Arduino" inside. #
• Tidying the study. Found a Christmas present which I should have given to SWMBO a month ago. Anyway, She likes it now! #
• More tidying; one ATA & one network hub eliminated=power saving. Long way to go before currentcost not needed! #

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• 2nd of two odd letters from Berlin arrived today. 1st, few weeks ago. with a stamp inside, 2nd with a bit of canvas. Nothing else. Ideas? #
• Trying to get to grips with IRC. again. Has proved useful in the past, though, so maybe the effort will be worthwhile, just looks antique #
• #UKSNOW RH3 2/10 traffic nightmare on A25 east #
• Taken daughter to swimming lesson but we are half an hour early. #
• Bug in #Sawmill has successful workaround; shame they didn't answer my question "where is the lock file?" some weeks ago! Good result. #
• Trading MT support calls today. #
• Off to pick up the curry. Yum Yum. #
• RT @unitedhosting: Business host DataGate vanishes – http://bit.ly/6RPg9X – Let us help you get back online! <– recommended #

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