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www.us.apachecon.com — It’s back!

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After all the fun and games of the past few days Aaron and I have managed to rebuild the entire VM, and apachecon website.  It was a lot of fun and games, and I’m sure in we’ll be buying each other a lot of beer in Oakland. So, go, get your daily dose of apachecon [...]

Busy weekend..

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So. The weekend is over, and it’s time to go back to the relaxation of the office. The wife and I managed to cram our Saturday full of stuff, including the town & country fair event in Cambridge, part of which was to launch national bike week. Where we did a whole bunch of stuff [...]

New Job: Day 1

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I completed day 1, at Caret yesterday. All in all things went really well. It’s just so painful having to start over from scratch, learning new systems, what’s where, who’s who, what not to do etc. Especially coming from a company where I had grown to know all of the clients, their environments, quirks etc. [...]

Shopping can often lead to disagreements

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So, whilst completing the many chores, the wife and I went out and bought a new dining table and 6 chairs.  Usually when we go shopping for things like this it takes us what feels like an eternity to come to a decision.  You see, my darling wife, likes to take many days to make [...]

Very productive weekend

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This 4 day weekend (yay!) has been an incredibly productive one.  So many mundane jobs that needed to get done, and ticked off.  You know how it is, you put off doing one of them, and then the next one comes along and you delay that because the parent job hasn’t been completed.  Well this [...]

War Heroes (or is that victims of war?)

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As much as I despise the popular modern tabloid press in the UK for over indulging us all in absolute tat, and the useless material they tend to carry day in, day out; I have been impressed by  the biggest of them all in the UK over the past 2 to 3 years. They have [...]