http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE

I'm not a Merkin (or Canuckian) so events over the other side of the pond are largely irrelevant to my life in a "direct effect" way, but I do try to keep half an ear out for what goes on over there and occasionally will discover something that makes me shake my head in disbelief/laugh out loud with joy/be impressed at something. (delete as ( Read more... )

I spent the Bank Holiday weekend attending the 7ath Discworld Convention, where much fun was had by all. Well, hopefully all... I certainly had fun and would like to thank the Committee for their hard work and outstanding efforts in making the occasion so great ( Read more... )

The following WSF/VBScript was written for Nagios/NRPE, and queries Windows WMI and makes a Software Version Check with optional validation against minimum version, with a mismatch allowance.

( The things I do to improve my Nagios Server. I had to learn VBScript for this... )

Another Final for Cardiff! :D

Hopefully my team will join yours. :)

Replacement laptop acquired for acceptable sums of monies. (Exactly the same model for 15% of the cost of mine when I bought it new... Given I tend to go 5 years per machine that is about right for the age, and hopefully I'll even make it last another 2 years ( Read more... )

Today my laptop bit the big one. Video card is kaput. Perfect timing, right before christmas. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ( Read more... )

Before I get into this, I'd just like to list a few games that sit on my shelf. BattleChess, Warcraft/Warcraft II/Warcraft III (with expansions), Diablo/Diablo II+LOD, StarCraft ( Read more... )

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15074298

The peer also cited the current example of off peak fares, saying that "because of very lax negotiation on the part of the government, off peak is defined as only about five hours a day" and train companies were trying ( Read more... )

http://knopok.net/text-to-html.html

OK, I'll admit it... Even as a jaded (and hidebound) writer of html in a text-editor, I'm impressed by that tool. Pretty powerful, very easy to use, and creates very clean html. If only "proper software" was as good.