Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.

  • Cheers! Friends and Pubs, ideal.

    I so wasn’t in the mood for being sociable last night, but peps were back from their holidays and the beer promised to be good. Good job I went too, since I perked right up once there and again had a nice evening of beer and nattering with a few friends. An ideal relaxing evening,…

  • Bah hah! Gotcha.

    You may recall I have a server thats been misbehaving, but we could not work out why. Well, we narrowed it down to having to be hardware today after some long discussions in the office… and then this pops up in ‘dmesg’ just now. Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue You…

  • M$ mail servers

    Its odd really. A desktop boxen at work got hit by the new SoBig.f variant today. If you didn’t know, its a virus that has its own inbuilt mail server so it can send itself out fast. Its pretty sweet really, thankfully port 25 is firewalled both ways, so we just saw a lot of…

  • Its all my fault.

    Apparently, it is my fault MCI took 5hours to reboot a server for me yesterday. This, quite astounding fact was told to me by ‘Ben’@MCI. You see, I made the mistake of calling up MCI support and asking for the server to be rebooted, if I had sent an e-mail it would have all been…

  • Sleep, sleep is good.

    I think I did one constructive thing all weekend, I changed the oil in my car. It sounds better for it too, but the drive home involved to many Sunday drivers to see if the engine works better. However, the black sludge that came out can’t have been good for it! I finally got a…

  • Lemmings!

    http://www.xs4all.nl/~crisp/lemmings/ Someone by the author a pint, or several!

  • Identical differences

    I no longer understand computers. I thought I used to but right now I’m not sure I know anything (which is perhaps a good thing?). Its my fault I suppose. I’m supposed to be in charge, I’m supposed to be able to task and schedule changes, so the fact that where I work’s production environment…

  • Wedding Photos

    For those of you that know Andy (aka ) may I present my apauling efforts with a camera… http://www.bullit.net/al/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=hill_wedding Yes, you may spot at couple of other LJers in there too.

  • Stress relief through creating stress

    Its an odd concept, but then as many will inform you, I am odd. Stressful overly busy day at work today, my flat is to damn hot (but then, most of the UK is) and it needed doing, so I built a pair of wheels (okay, I lie when I say pair, I’ve done one…

  • Bloody Outlook

    7 hours to make a users Outlook work. Thats bloody stupid! Editing proprietary mailbox formats in a hex editor ‘cos even after you delete 90% of the mail the outlook.pst file doesn’t shrink is just silly, but the only way 🙁 Beer… someone said beer!

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