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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
I went along to Oxford Geek Night 2 on Wednesday, helped set up, talked to the few people I recognised, and watched the talks, which were (on the whole) very good. They included web typography, Amazon's web services, some stuff about Second Life (Linden Labs sound like an awesome place to work for) and Yahoo Pipes - things that I'd heard about, thought sounded good, but never made time to find out about.
There was a camera crew for the local BBC news (see it here), and many photos were taken, but despite that I appear to have avoided ...
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Some of you may remember that a while back I was after some kind of VoIP service. Well, I've finally got round to doing something about it.
I'm using Asterisk (helped a lot by Andrew's how-to) and X-Lite softphone, with a Sennheiser PC 20 headset. I've also got a free phone number from sipgate, and it's working perfectly. Now I can sit in my office and look like a total dork.
I just have a couple of little things left to sort out (like, err, outgoing phonecalls), and I'll have a pretty awesome phone ...
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Woah! What's this, another update? Four posts so far this month, and we're only just into the last week. You are lucky.
As I have alluded to in previous posts, I have a Wii, which Leela bought me for my birthday. I feel I need to give it an entry of its own, because it's so utterly awesome - half of the entry is sitting in my drafts, but I just can't seem to get the other half finished. I will endeavour to post some more information shortly, but suffice it to say it is a lot ...
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Some useful things that I learnt last week:
- My expensive Sony laptop can survive a 3 foot drop. Onto tiles. Lid first. While powered on. And writing to the hard drive.
- It's a bad thing when someone else's server accidentally gets assigned your APC reboot port. And they want to reboot their server. And they live by the motto If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again. Especially when you are trying to demo a site for a client, with whom you have a money back reliability agreement.
- People don ...
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Only a week late, but better late than never! Work, journeys, meetings; a busy week. And now I have the weekend to catch up.
As I mentioned in my post last week, Leela had cunning plans for my birthday, which were top secret. I had to test my car, so as I drove and she directed it turned out that we were going to Bath! Hurrah!
We had lunch up in the Slug and Lettuce - it's moved to where RSVP used to be, evoking memories of pub crawls and t-shirts and Kate. But it's all shiny and decorated ...
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