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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
I woke up one morning to find my Wii glowing. It was a message - Nintendo were telling me that they'd send me some free Wiimote covers. I said OK, and they arrived last week. They're quite good actually, especially for free. Shame they won't do the same with Mario Galaxy.
Then of course there was the Nokia BL5C battery recall, one of which was in my 6230i. I contacted them for a replacement, and they said they'd send me one.
It was around that time that my phone broke. I don't know what was wrong ...
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I seem to have a knack for finding obscure bugs. Mostly it's in places you'd expect, like Flash and ActionScript, or Perl modules from CPAN, but today I found one in Apache.
Essentially it comes down to this: you can't place canonical url mod_rewrite rules in a subdirectory.
So, if you haven't closed your browser after reading that:
- You want a request handler in a subdirectory off your server root,
/var/www/subdir, and because it's just your development server and you're after a quick hack, you copy your standard handler .htaccess in there ...
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I've wheeled out the halloween decorations again, bit earlier than last year, but I knew I'd forget otherwise. Busy time with work at the moment!
I will take the comment silence for the past two entries to mean that nobody's really interested in The Train Chronicles. So don't worry, I won't tell you about my journey on Wednesday, where the train down to London was full of half-term children screaming at me, and the journey back being delayed by an hour and re-routed because a car had driven into a bridge. Where the hell is ...
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I've had a fun day on the trains. Got to Cheltenham to find that the 8.46 was cancelled. This isn't unusual. What was unusual was that the next train, to Bristol Parkway, was actually the 8.22, which arrived at 9.18. I felt a bit sorry for the mother-plus-children who was exclaiming loudly that she was going to miss her Eurotunnel train tickets - but this is Britain, if you don't leave two or three hours to make your connection, what do you expect.
The train got in to Bristol at something like 10.10. I ...
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As anyone who has lived with me will no doubt testify, I only ever get irritated by the little things. Anything significant will just bounce off - no heating for months in the middle of window, no running water for weeks, things like that. But should you dare to not wash up my collander, I will be angered, and most likely sulk and whine for weeks.
So the fact that I spend 14 hours a week on trains doesn't bother me, nor does starting my day with a 20 minute walk to the station in the rain. Not even getting ...
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