Archive for July, 2006

Home Server Build

The recent release of the Intel Core 2 Duo has resulted in a price war with AMD. The result, falling processor prices on both sides. I’d been monitoring the situation for a couple of weeks and this weekend the prices were right for me. I had been considering building a server for myself to use [...]

I Hate London

On Friday afternoon I needed to visit a surgery, walk in, pick up two items and walk out. Parking was not available so i stopped in a residents parking bay. I wasn’t going to be there long and it was a quiet street. After being in there 5 minutes and returning to my car I [...]

London is too warm

Here I am sitting in a Travelodge in London on what should be one of the cooler evenings of the week so far. I should be cooler than I have been all week, alas no. The window too this room doesn’t want to open as it is stuck. It needs a bit of force applying [...]

I’m Back

It’s been too long since the last post so here is a new one. I’ve been quiet for several reasons: I started a job mid March I got addicted to GalCiv2 My job results in staying in places without net access I dont work at a desk (yet…gimme another week) Playing around with Python took [...]