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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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• 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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