Nicholas Booth Dot Com

• 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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• 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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• Haiku attempt on the way to work: Carpet of Bluebells/ Delights of Holmwood Common/ Spied through dappled trees #

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• A warm home made beer, sitting in the sun on the front doorstep. Feels like Summer is here already. #
• Daughter willingly doing her piano practice. What's happened? #
• O2 website says my Joggler s/b delivered today. Hope DHL actually do the deed – the package won't track on their site, though. #
• Joggler hacked – telnet & some 3rd party apps added. What a nice bit of kit – wish I'd ordered two! Maybe try Ubuntu on it tomorrow eve. #
• Fuzz manning speedtrap near Fourwents Pond this morning. Thanks to the lady that warned about it. #
• Toad in the Hole now in the oven for Sunday Lunch. #

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• The stars strike me as being somewhat pink. Crescent moon also has a pinkish shade to it . #
• Starting estimate for work left to do to get Movable Type completely set up for the business we sold so they can be independent of us. #
• Completed an estimate for Movable Type work required. Orginally told they had the expertise to implement and manage a system. They don't. #
• Hacking the Wii and trying to get daughter to bed at the same time = stress #
• A few lonely wiggly vapour trails in a bright blue sky this morning. #
• Time to leave the office and drive back to what I hope will still be sunny Dorking. #
• Web team here discussing the collecive noun for DBAs; is it a "Select" of DBAs or a "Cluster"? #
• Just back from a fantastic meal for SWMBO's birthday at La Barbe, Reigate. Mmmmmmm. #
• Free-cycle sourced acquisition of an old sewing machine now working after tweaking – sort of mechanical hacking, I s'pose. Grace pleased. #
• Daughter happily playing my SCUMM Indiana Jones FoA on the Wii. All the Wii games disks now on a USB Hard Drive. Nice & Tidy. #

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• Just mended a little chineese am/fm radio. Hope the rest of the soldering is better than the blob they used used for the aerial wire! #
• Nice bunch of LandyWaves on the way home tonight. It's lovely how much Landy owners love their motors and are so friendly. #
• Just ordered some small kits from Sparkfun, including a metronome one to help Grace's piano playing (and mine too, probably!). #
• This looks like it might be an interesting project (once all the rest are done! and I get a round Tuit). #
• Possies of cyclists all over the place today. Perhaps they are all pilots when the planes are flying normally. #
• Sitting in the cinema waiting for Nanny McPhee to start. #
• No BBQ tonight: Danger lurks. Need to retrieve the jet wash and spray liberally before it may be considered safe to cook on. #

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• Wandering around Drusillas zoo #
• Busy day been to Brighton; walked on the pier and spent fortune.Then to Devil's Dyke and now at 6 bells #
• Just home from Birthday Dinner for Mother at the Peking restaurant in Dorking. Very nice meal with pleasant surprise at the end. Well done. #

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• Wrestling with poorly documented plugins. Grrr. #
• RT @TelegraphNews Classic Land Rover http://bit.ly/chzixn #
• Spring: Had to dodge about a dozen ducklings racing around in the road by the village pond on my way to work today. #
• Too many blogs – we just ran out of disk space! #
• Fish and chips for supper. #
• Wow! That was the biggest piece of haddock I've ever seen – maybe it was really a great white shark? #
• Daugter has new bicycle. Maybe she'll stay in a good mood for the rest of the day. #
• Making Hot Cross Buns #
• At my sister's house: feels like chaos. Looking forward to trying the HCBs later. #

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• Great page with hacks for the Chumby: http://tinyurl.com/35qw7c I should have known I could SSH into it and that it had a web browser! #
• One very persistent problem solved. #
• About to see Dave Gorman at the Dorking Halls. Meal later #
• Been to Brighton this morning to collect an antique radio for the collection. #
• Just acquired two chimney pots for the garden #
• My beard has been plaited #

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