A simple matter of…

Never has a source control system been more aptly named. git is amazingly cool and powerful, however it also possesses a steep learning curve.
I’m now happily using it in a basic fashion - one central repository, an edge repository on my laptop and desktop.
You really do need to spend a bit of [...]

With most sat nav systems, you get a choice of perhaps male or female voices. Wouldn’t it be great to have more customised accents? Perhaps English (rather than American). However why stop there, you could have regional accents - North England, South England, Macunian.
WARNING: stereotypes ahead!
Perhaps a sexy French accent would persuade [...]

I’m a keen user of email, perhaps _too_ keen.
I use email since the person I’m communicating with choose when to read it and when to deal with it. They will also have all the information they need (I hope). This helps efficiency (no interruptions for them and I don’t have to wait for [...]

I’ve been trying to follow Inbox Zero for a little while since finding out about it. I’m sure that I initially read a presentation rather than a video however it appears to have disappeared.
What did Inbox Zero mean to me? It meant trying to drain my email Inbox each time I read it. [...]

The other week I had to setup an IPSec gateway at work. After fighting various issues for a while (not adding a new rule to tell the firewall to _not_ NAT the packets being one), I hit a problem which was easier to diagnose.
Our firewall has four external IPs, when I started up the [...]

I often have ideas when I’m trying to go to sleep - which is a really inconvenient time to have them as it can become an involuntary brainstorming session and I can’t sleep.
I have learnt to always have a pad of paper and a pencil for such times - if I write it down I [...]

Thanks to Graham for sharing http://www.brendangregg.com/specials.html

I would say it’s been a great two weeks off, but I’d be lying. As two weeks holiday go, I think this one has been the worst I can recall. There have been a few highlights (visiting family and a few friends) but not as many as I’d have liked (visiting _more_ friends!) [...]

Diagnosing a corruption issue just before Christmas, I used “memtest86+” as usual. However instead of booting, the PC just said: “Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory”.
Fortunately this is covered by this Debian bug. It’s still not been fixed, in the meantime you can grab this precompiled memtest86+ ELF binary (not the [...]

I don’t have NYRs in the way most people seem to - setting unrealistic targets such as “I will do exercise each day” or “I will give up chocolate” (why!) I do like to set myself aims or goals to achieve - positive things to look forward to rather than unpleasant tasks to do [...]