Monthly Archives: February 2007

The Goodies return!

Yes, finally, they’re back on TV! About time as well. For those of you in the UK who want to relive a classic series, Paramount 2 on Friday evening from 9pm – my Sky+ is already set to record!

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flickr pro

Andrew and Toby berated me when I last saw them about my inability to use Paypal to pay for a flickr pro account, so this morning I sat down and tried to figure out why it was proving so hard. … Continue reading

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RIP suitcase

My suitcase travels widely and has endured a lot of airports and the inherent rough handling that ensues, but it finally succumbed in Atlanta earlier this week. The final journey through the baggage system from concourse E (the furthest from … Continue reading

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no, not paypal

I’ve been using flickr for a while and decided that maybe it’s time to upgrade to a pro account today. Then it told me that I had to pay via paypal. I’ve talked before of my annoyances with paypal and … Continue reading

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hard drive

After the laptop died and I arranged for a replacement, I started wondering how I could get by until the new drive arrived. The answer I arrived at was an external hard drive with Ubuntu installed onto it. Getting this … Continue reading

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hotmail contact?

Hotmail has started rejecting mails from my mail server. No explanation is given, just a generic piece of text that lists most of the things we do to try and provide some security. There is a link to visit that … Continue reading

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xchat2 freenode script

The first one I grabbed was a bust, but this one works as advertised http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/~olberger/weblog/wp-content/identify_and_join_py.txt

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x40 disk dies

I rebooted from Windows into Ubuntu yesterday and watched in horror as it said various essential files didn´t exist. It was one of those ¨heart in your mouth¨ type moments that tend to preceed really bad events. This was no … Continue reading

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