http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp Wibble and stuff... Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:31:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week, we spent some very damp days near Poolewe in the Highlands of Scotland. There is plenty of picture evidence available here. The week went, more or less, thus: Friday night: Drive from the Deep South to Inverness via Tebey and Stirling -- the A9 is a fantastic road ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/10/05/scotland-and-mum/ Benjamin Daniel Slowe was born on Friday 16th May weighing 9lb 13oz. I've set up a webalbum for you to oggle :) http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/05/19/benjamin-daniel-slowe/ According to a Canterbury City Council press release: Famous Victorian engineer Robert Stephenson will be at the Museum of Canterbury this Saturday (10 May) to chat to visitors and enlist their help in a series of fun experiments. Well, who'd have thought it... a man who died in 1859 will be receiving ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/05/05/reincarnation-lives-in-canterbury/ See xkcd for more time wastings :) http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/05/02/bacon/ Sent to BBC Comments today regarding the new style on the BBC News website... I may be in a minority, but although my screen may be 1024x768, that is not the resolution at which my applications run. I often (nee all the time) have many applications open at once and the most efficient way ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/03/31/bbc-news-site-redesign/ My current webhost (Dreamhost) seem to be trying out (maybe even moving to) Thumpers from their traditional NetApps. Thumpers are (up to) 48 Terabytes of storage in 4u... that's pretty amazing really. This has had the slightly annoying side-effect that the .snapshot directory has disappeared meaning user-driven restores aren't possible on ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2007/12/17/thumpers-at-dreamhost/ I would have emailed this to them, but no email addresses are available on the corporation's website and, when resorting to guess work, customer.services, customer.service don't work. I then tried postemaster@morrisons.co.uk which also bounced. This is, in itself, against the requirements of having a mail system on the internet. Anyway, ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2007/11/30/open-letter-to-morrisons-plc/ With reference to this BBC news article about some boys aged 10 to 12 being hauled before the Old Bailey to answer charges of Manslaughter... What were they doing out and in a position to do something like that without parental guidance/observation? The age of criminal responsibility should be at such ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2007/10/20/little-criminals/ So, today was the day I had scheduled to upgrade our ageing WebCT 6 system to the latest version. Four hours into the upgrade of the first of three updates I needed to apply, the following error is produced: Installation error. com.webct.platform.installer.InstallerException: Unexpected error executing [webct_stat.sql]. ORA-04021: timeout occurred while waiting ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2007/08/23/blackct/ Just a notice to say I've had a ePetition accepted on the Number 10 Website regarding the application of Digital Rights Management -- the ability for software and hardware to decide if users are "allowed" to do something: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make DRM and associated ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2007/07/09/digital-rights-management/