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Well it’s been a while since I last posted here.  Though it’d be right that I come back with tales of new desks, screens and computers!

So what’s new?  I’ve left Camberley, worked for the MoD over the summer and am now back in Aber living with Faye (hopefully a film of the flat coming soon).  Since being in Aber I have bought a new desk, a new chair (which is annoyingly not here), a pair of new monitors and a new shiney computer.

Let’s talk about the monitors to start off with, two 22″ things from Samsung (SyncMaster T220 apparently), here they are: Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday while surfing the web, a pop-up notified me that the Camino 2.0 RC was available to download and install:

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I’ve finally managed to get my blog to update twitter for me

Now you can follow me on twitter, clicky

How cool is that!?

Well, I’m setting into my new hosting well, I’ve been playing with the WordPress plugins over the last few days and I’m pretty happy with the results.

I’ve installed Akismet, the SPAM filter for posts, stats, ‘share this’ tiles (at the bottom of the post) and I’ve hooked it up to twitter! Who’d have thought it!? Follow me now for updates on when I post! Also, browse here on your iPhone or other mobile device, and get my blog served to you in a freindly, mobile format!

I’m still fiddling, if I break stuff, I’m sorry, just giggle to yourself when things go wrong

Post 100, thanks for visiting to boost the stats: Read the rest of this entry »

As you can see from the image (below), I have the stats for my blog on Thursday, 1st January 1970!  I also have stats for ‘yesterday’ presumably meaning Wednesday, 31st December 1969!

Obviously those of you that are more observant, anyone can claim this: simply put an invalid date into the address bar!  Though interestingly, 2009-04-31 give you the date: 1st May 2009.

Just something to blog about before bed! Read the rest of this entry »

The Intel Manager game is on it’s third incarnation and brings a very different form of game play.
I didn’t play the IMG2, but in the first version you bought more servers and upgraded network cards etc (choices from ‘no-name’ brands up to Intel’s finest).  This new version you do no buying.  You first train in various areas by completing challenges (answering an Intel related question) or taking the training course (your skill is increased over a short period of time).  Once you have learnt a skill (such as multi-core) you can apply it to the employees desktop/laptop.

I think I prefer the first version, I wish they had built apon that…

The weekend was great. Faye came down on Friday and went home on Sunday, we had a really nice, weekend doing not much. Parents came round on Saturday too to show Faye the photo scrapbook Mum had made me for my birthday.

Monday I worked on a ticket which I had picked up last thing on Friday. It was to install four network cards into a T2000. The T2000 booked was on the back bench under a 3310 array (or something similar). Since my engineer had a genuine booking, I disconnected the T2000, put it back in it’s place and set about taking out old cards and adding in the new ones.
When I came across problems with the SP and asked for help, it transpired that the machine actually belonged to someone else…Tom had canceled the booking, and I had dismantled the config. I hastily set about undoing what I had done to some success, I emailed the original owner and apologised. Read the rest of this entry »

Week off! Woo!!!

I started my time off on Saturday 31st January, I woke up at 5am, was out the house by 6:15am and waiting to catch the 7:02 train to Reading from Blackwater. Everything was good, I’d had a duck and hoisin wrap from Tescos.
The trip from Reading to Oxford was to be taken by bus. I sat upstairs and off we went! About halfway to Oxford, the bus broke down on the dual carriage way. Grrrr! We were there for an hour before another bus came, then we were an hour and a half late!
I caught the next train to Wolverhampton where I had to wait an hour and a half for the train to Aberystwyth, I wandered into town and got myself a Starbucks
I finally got to Aberystwyth two hours later than I wanted to be, met up with Faye and went home for some dinner!
Later that evening we went out to celebrate the end of exams. Me and Johnny formed a team for beer pong, wining our first round, but losing 2 – 1 in the final round. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I woke up to snow!

Every car in the street was covered, and were the streets, all in about a quarter of an inch of the stuff!  At 7:45 this morning, it was still pretty unspoilt on the way to the bus, it was quite a sight!

I’ve got some pics, will put them up later this evening!