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I’ve completed two games to 100% this weekend, Lego Star Wars II and Lego Indiana Jones.
For Lego Star Wars II all I had to do was to complete the Super Story modes on each film which basically means playing through the entire of the story mode again except you get timed. I was under the [...]

Last weekend I went to the Devon and Cornwall Linux User Group meeting in a Computer shop in Penzance (which is why I skipped the Termisoc LOTR marathon) and thanks to Viv I got to see Virtualbox in use. Virtualbox is virtualisation software that lets you run several operating systems on the same computer at [...]

Decided to update my Wordpress install, something which I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
This time though I’ll be upgrading wordpress using Subversion version control which should make things quicker next time.
Previously I downloaded the tar file and then extracted it to a separate folder then tried to figure out which bits I [...]

Yesterday my / partition was 93% full, today it is only a modest 49%.
The space was mostly taken up by uncompressed video files from my tuner card (>1GB each) and my cached apt packages.
I really should keep an eye on that.

After finding many (+1000) comment spams in my wordpress blog I took a look at my database tables. After marking something as spam it still lurks around in the wordpress database (table wp_comments)
SELECT COUNT(*), comment_approved FROM wp_comments GROUP BY comment_approved;
+———-+——————+
| COUNT(*) | comment_approved |
+———-+——————+
| 68 | 1 [...]

For the past few days I’ve been doing temp work as a customer relations assistant dealing with letters from annoyed train company customers (Some of them are whiny but others I can well understand why they are pissed off).
The software I used is a CRM system (Remedy Action Request System 4.0) and basically my [...]

With the release of Blender 2.40 I’ve been trying to get into 3D modeling. Here is a quick image I put together in less than 5 minutes (after watching the video tutorial on Dupliverting).

The image above was made bt dupliverting a NURBS Sphere onto an IcoSphere and then applying a Ramp as the material in [...]

I decided it was time for a change in my blogging engine, I migrated the database across to Wordpress using one SQL query but the customised theme took a bit longer. The stucture is similar to the Kubrick theme but I customised a lot using CSS so it looks like the rest of my site.
Hopefully [...]

I’ve just been on one of those redecorating sprees with my KDE desktop downloaded a new theme called Milk. My desktop now looks a lot like a mac’s.
I’ve gotten rid of the taskbar at the bottom and now I have a small centeralised application selector with my favorite apps in it (firefox, thunderbird, sunbird, shell, [...]

Trying to look at the news on the BBC website and I get two popup dialogs from RealPlayer, both saying “General error. An error has occured” and clicking on “More Info…” closed the dialog. It reminded me of the bit in Red Dwarf where Holly says “Emergency! Emergency! There’s an emergency going on”. Totally useless, [...]