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The Diary
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Random stuff - anything from coding, photography, tech stuff to waffle and the contents of my head.
Recent Posts
Tales from the late shift – £3/hour and all the books you can read
Back in my college (that’s what we English do between the ages of 16 and 18) days I used to have a part time job. Like most students the part time job was suitably easy, requiring no real skill beyond the ability to stand upright and appear at ...
Google Mail, five years on…
I’ve installed Google Desktop for some useful and fun gadgets to fill my second monitor with. Currently the GMail gadget is indexing five years worth of email which is going to take ages. I had a look through my mail and found my first GMail ev...
Skulltag – What a lot of fun
Skulltag, it's Doom... but with real networking During my time at school, before overclocking Celerons and wasting my life on the Internet became the “in” thing, I used to spend quite a lot of time playing Doom. It was, in fact the re...
Debugging my boiler
I suppose there’s one benefit to having a knackered heating system – it requires lots of testing, to work out what’s wrong with it. It’s quite nice sitting in a roasting hot house during the day, under the guise of “test...
And my boiler’s broken…
Leaking boiler What you’re looking at is the underside of my central heating boiler. The crusty white stuff on that pipe is limescale caused by the water in this area. The crusty white stuff shouldn’t be there, it means that pipe has a le...
Lenovo S10e Touchpad problems – how do I disable browser zooming?
Right then, here’s a nice challenge… please read carefully because it’s not the usual thing you’re already thinking…I have a Lenovo S10e netbook running XP. It has a Synaptics touchpad with the touchpad drivers installed...

