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Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.

  • Week to Wednesday

    Due to small children being ill I have been in Bath much of this week, which makes a change for me. Wandered along to the pub on Tuesday with Zoot, Mushroom and Icklemichael and had a beer for the first time in ages – good job too, its the Bath beer festival all this coming…

  • Fun at IKEA

    I went to IKEA on Wednesday evening, with my GF, to buy a shelving unit thing. Its a machine that ‘tests’ a Poang armchair by simulating a heavy arse sitting down and reclining. In case you can read the couter, which should show how many cycles the chair has been through, here is a close…

  • 8 women to many

    You know life just can’t get any better when your GF say “Yes, a Pot Noodle would be great, lets do that.” Gets me out of cooking! I have, however, been sent home this evening as there are about 9 women and 11 children at her’s, most likely drunk and bitching about men – I…

  • Router/Firewall “hard drive”

    The 3.5″ 4GB IDE drive in my router/firewall is unhappy. It is making more noise than it used to and it seems slower to use, though there are no errors in dmesg. For a while now I have wanted to remove the hard drive and run solid state storage on it, I could run fanless…

  • Drinkage

    Mon Sep 19 2005 – Tue Sep 20 2005 – Nothing – Wed Sep 21 2005 1 x Pint strong ale 5% (2.8) 1 x pint medium ale 4.0% (2.3) Units:5.1 Thu Sep 22 2005 – Nothing – Fri Sep 23 2005 4 x Pint strong ale 5% (11.4) 1 x pint medium ale 4.0%…

  • Rumours of my demise are exaggerated…

    I never was very good at updating anything, yet alone my journal, sorry. Lately though you could have been forgiven for thinking I died, but no(!) I am alive and well, thank you for your concern 😉 Errr, since last time I have been to Paris to have a nose about and to see Lance…

  • Faster, finally…

    I know most ISPs did this a while ago, but now my ISP has finally caught up and will be doubling my ADSL speed for free. So I get an uncapped 1Mbps line with a /29 fixed IP block. Sweet 🙂 “Sometime in the next 3 months” though… ho hum.

  • Bloomin’ hard disks

    How can it be that a disk runs just fine, with no problems or reported errors, but when you add another disk into the system, set up software RAID1 and raidhotadd that the first disk, the one thats been fine for ages but you want to just b sensible about, how is it that the…

  • Thats a wrap

    Ah, my last morning in LA. I fly back this afternoon. Off to see a client this morning and to meet their whole bloomin’ IT team (inc some chap from the UK… hmm), so should be fun. I have done no shopping ‘cos there isn’t any in downtown LA, it really is dead around here.…

  • Yummy

    Chex mix (bold party in this case) is the new crack. That is all.

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