{All the way from Cambridge}

Right, for the past few weeks I have been trying to get my hands on a 17″ MBP. Not the standard retail model, I want the smaller but faster disk, more RAM, and a few other tweaks. In the UK (apple.com/uk) retail price for this unit is about £2,200. However in the US the same [...]

Alice and I are just back from a friends wedding, at Northbourne Park School, Kent. It was a lovely day, Hannah and Chris are quite possibly the most suited couple you are ever likely to find. They have a great deal in common, given that they teach at the same school this is a miracle. [...]

So far so good… Using on the desktop PC at home, and the $work laptop. I have to say I have seen a massive decrease in time it takes most of my frequently visited sites to load. No crashes or other issues I may expect from an RC, but heck. I aint one to argue.

As of this morning I have just resigned my position as a freenode staffer. I just couldn’t offer the sort of time that is needed to operate as a staff member for this busy IRC network. I deeply regret not having 32 hour days so I could fit all my daily activities into one day. [...]

I am currently helping out with the SVN server issues at Apache, and I have spend a considerable amount of time using the Dell DRAC cards to monitor the console of the said server. I live in the UK, and this server is in Oregon. A fair old distance away. To me this is no [...]