Mann vs Machinations
In five days, just at the start of the Bank Holiday weekend, Guild Wars 2 launches. I have, as my girlfriend will confirm with some resignation, been spending an awful lot of time...
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A Personal Odyssey
People of the civilized world, listen, for your gods speak! Alexander of Macedon, he whom you called Great, is dead. He shall not be remembered as the king who united the Greeks, nor...
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Start of the Olympics
Balancing the sports event with the abuse of power it has allowed.
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The Crunchy Debian Centre
The statute of limitations is past on this one, so a tale of sysadminry. Once upon a time there were two servers, which we shall call Robert and Dave. Between them they ran...
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Today
Today, I have: Unpacked six boxes. Caused a very large bookcase to spontaniously and destructively re-flatpack itself… … onto my ankles, which hurt. … and my girlfriend’s hand, which also hurt. Watched Sin...
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New Flat Adventures – Season 3, Episode 2: In Hot Water
From the middle of December 2010 until January 2011, our old flat’s boiler didn’t work very well. I’ve gone on about the problems with this at length elsewhere, but it culminated in a...
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New Flat Adventures – Season 3, Episode 1, The Key To A Successful Move
I bought a new kettle yesterday. There is a tradition that when I get to a new house, the first thing I do when I have the keys is go inside and make...
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Cookie Policy
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The Secret World Beta Weekend
The problem is, that there’s a lot that is New And Revolutionary and therefore Bad And Different, and there’s a lot that’s Exactly The Same, and therefore Copying WoW. The same kind of...
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