A simple matter of…

Yes, really. I’m not kidding, or being sarcastic.
Microsoft might, _finally_ (large pinch of salt required given past embrace and extend behaviour) have decided to use open protocols.
Not for MSIE - that would be the icing on the cake - albeit thick, crunchy icing.
Yesterday they announced they are going to join “AMQP” which is [...]

Then you need Skype plugin for pidgin.
Finally - tabbed window support
To install:

just install .deb, restart pidgin, then “add account”, “Skype” (or “Skype/DBUS”)

Problems being:

for me it always crashed on startup if I had skype running and I use “Skype/DBUS”

it also crashed once with “Skype” today

In my day job I end up looking after various Java applications. One of the biggest problems here from my point of view is memory leaks. In a “normal” C program with a memory leak, you’d leak some memory consistently over time - so you can keep an eye on the program, monitor [...]

But in a _good_ way.
Namely right at the end of an astounding 25mins aerobatics. Thanks to Chris of Delta Aviation for an unforgettable experience.
Initially I wasn’t fussed about having a go (I was after the “what does it feel like” experience), but I’m really glad I did - it was tremendous making the plane [...]

No, nothing about the current global crisis!
I’ve just finished reading “The undercover economist” which was recommend by Graham. So now when I read that the UK imports a million litres of milk each day from Holland, Belgium and Northern Ireland, I think “and…”.
More specifically what’s wrong with this? They presumably _can_ make a [...]

(Mergers and Acquisitions)
Well it has finally been done and announced. We’ve acquired Altinity, developers of Opsview.
This is great news, I’ve been a firm believer in this since the start (in fact, I initiated the conversation). I’m really looking forward to work with the Altinity guys and helping Opsview grow as a product (and [...]

Despite what people seem to think, I’m actually generally happy. I just rant a bit, well, a lot. Masses in fact. In fact, on IRC we have a unit of Ranting - the “Bridgett”, though we normally use milliBridgetts.
So, sites that make me laugh, lol, rothlmao, <g> etc:

XKCD - legendary author of [...]

Now that suspend works I want my desktop machines to switch off when I stop using them - primarily this means overnight, but it also means “if I forget to”.
Gnome-power-manger has a global “suspend after so long” option, however I wanted something more flexible. I don’t want it to suspend during the [...]

pm-suspend is rather nice - very small, very fast.
However, on resume, the clock was stuffed - this morning it resumed as sometime in 1992. Tonight it’s resuming on Friday 1st 2012. The mangling seems fairly constant - i.e. on five tests it was always mangled to the same date.
Anyway, I’ve fixed it [...]

Blimey, pretty busy at work (and enjoying biking when the sun shines) so not many updates recently.
The new server has arrived and has been built, I now need to work out how to migrate nicely. I’ll probably do some playing around with KVM and then have one big outage (since I’m reusing the disks [...]