foorah

See xkcd for more time wastings

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 1024×768, 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 to know what’s going on […]

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 some of their servers (the […]

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 to lock object WEBCT.WEBCT_STAT
Great.
So I […]

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 technologies illegal in IT hardware […]

I’ve written my (mostly camera) wishlist.
It’s here and automagically updates

Ok, so after much dribbling… they went and took away the decent 350D deal I was looking at (350D+18-55mm+55-200mm+grip). So, instead, I’ve gone and got myself a Canon 400D with standard 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 and dmc’s 75-300mm f4-5.6 to go with it… along with a rather swish looking backpack to keep it all in.
Oh, and “yay […]

I’ve been umming and arrings (and drooling) over getting a new camera for some time now (seriously thinking since about March).
Most of this time, I’ve had my eyes on a Canon 350D with some combination of lenses. [1]
What I’m after is a low-end, but extensible DSLR which I can experiment with, have fun with and, […]

On Thursday, a five year institution comes to an end and, as I wore an I’m blogging this tshirt to the farewell bbq, I suppose I ought to at least make some effort.
At the end of my first year at ukc, five of us moved into a house on an estate in Canterbury. As we […]