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Wow. Just discovered that a project I’m doing work for is about a hundred times bigger than I realised!

Long session with Movable Type Consultant was useful and now I have some things to try to fix some probs. Not all fixed yet, though!

• Landrover prepped for green laning this afternoon with a Jeep driver who wants to know what it's all about. #
• Back from some delightful green laning in the Surrey Hills. Hello to all the other Landrover enthusiasts having fun today. #
• About to have Toad-in-the-Hole for supper. And a beer. #

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• Back in the swing of things. Two weeks in SW England with no net connection beyond a bit of damp string was actually rather relaxing! #
• It's so wet that there's a puddle in the foot-well of the Landrover. Must be the way the rain is falling. #
• Just finished (for the moment) a big tranche of work for http://www.variety.com Mucho Fun & Frustration! #
• Just been into town to buy some Fireworks for G's party on Tuesday. They only had the "bigger" box collections. Clever retail strategy. #
• Nice ice cream from the deli called "Taste of Europe" in South Street (at the old PDSA HQ). #
• Rustling up some supper with leftovers: http://tinyurl.com/2f72gln #
• Just had a ten minute power-cut south of Dorking – hardly long enough to invoke all the standby systems (or find a torch & candle!). #

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• More fun with mod_rewrite rules and blog changes with legal repurcussions to complete quickly. Nice challenge. #
• Wrestling completed. Gadget-master blog now at http://bit.ly/cQBLff #
• RT @samblackledge: http://twitpic.com/2bsje8 – Dorking brewery << Here's another Dorking brewery: http://twitpic.com/2bsmnh #
• never a guard on train when you want a ticket HLM-SUO expect hassle at SUO. #TRAINTALES #
• Packing – clothes, toothbrush, beach gear: Easy! Technology – impossible decisions about what to take or leave…. #

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• EDF fixed contract ends. Wrestling with price comparisons. EDF site itself seems to have almost no hard data to help. Hard work! #
• findlater #
• Helping sort out DNS records. #
• Currently watching RedBull X-Fighters: WOW! That's an astounding way to use a motorbike! Stupendous! #
• Authentic Navy rum: Yours for £600 a bottle http://reg.cx/1K3H < So tempting. #
• Eating fish and chips picnic with the family whilst sitting in the car looking at the view on the Cotmandene #
• Nice handful of runner beans constitutes our first crop. Guess what we're having for supper! #
• Just emptied the big (very big) paddling pool as the water was getting a bit murky. Grass will probably be greener in the morning! #

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• I seem to be inhetiting a hugely badly maintained and quite big database of a DNS portfolio. #poisonedchalice #
• More problems since before the weekend with O2 signal at home. Spent 30+mins in phone to O2 getting nowhere. #o2fail (again!) #
• At a wedding in Brockham #

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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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