Over the last few years councils have spent a lot of time and effort (not to mention money) trying to make the roads safer. The results can be seen everywhere. Bumps abound, along with lane restrictions, one way systems and strange lines painted on the road to try and do something clever (never quite figured [...]

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last night a large group of us went out to eat. The group numbered 11 so getting a table was a problem, but eventually an italian restaurant said they could accomodate us, but as two tables. This was fine and the tables were next to each other, so all seemed fine.
The service was nowhere near [...]

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Last minute Christmas shopping. Not as busy as I expected it would be.

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Cold and snowy. No real surprise at this time of year!

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My desktop machine still has a lot of problems staying “up” for prolonged periods. As I’m normally running a gnome desktop the problems aren’t normally logged and the kernel panic triggers a triple fauilt, so the machine just hard reboots. This isn’t good and doesn’t allow me to debug what’s wrong with it.
Debugging [...]

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Got home and after a 10 minute wait got a taxi. Traffic wasn’t too heavy so it didn’t take long to get home, but then just as got to my road his phone rang. He answered it as we swerved into the opposite lane! Thankfully the oncoming traffic wasn’t going fast and had room to [...]

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Waiting for flight home from Dallas.

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Back at the hotel for the final time. Apachecon US is over!

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Some of us who were not worthy of being invited to the big post conference party decided to head out to eat. Rockbottom Brewery was as good as usual.

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Fashion Valley Mall. Time to escape the hotel for a while.

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Apachecon US 2005

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Travelling to my gate!

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En route to San Diego for ApacheCon US. Now, where is gate C16?

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Chatting with Theo he suggested that rather than struggle with bison & flex I look at re2c and lemon. A quick web search and there they were! They do look like interesting apps to use and so I’ve installed them on my laptop in preperation for looking at moving butter over to using them for [...]

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After doing some work to make sure that we correctly rebuild when settings are changed, or could have been changed, I decided to try and add another piece of the puzzle that’s missing. Adding it requires making some changes to the flex/bison code I have, but as usual it wasn’t as easy as I thought [...]

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Got through final bit of work before my holiday, so now I’m off until the 17th. Will be heading off to San Diego on Friday for ApacheCon US where I’ll be until Thursday am when I start the long journey home. I’m looking forward to it being a little warmer than here!

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Snow on the ground, temperature below freezing - winter has arrived!

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Old projects never die, they just fade away….
Until someone asks you about it and shows a little interest. At that point they get dusted off and made to work again. In fact, often they get all spruced up and have majout portions rewritten to work better, fixing a lot of the annoyances that were there [...]

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As Firefox 1.5 was released and available in the ports tree I though I’d upgrade. It had been a while since I updated my ports tree, so I ran the script and off it went… In fact it’s still going, but as anyone who has updated their ports tree knows it takes a while!
When the [...]

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