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Been playing a[n]? MMORPG recently called Eternal Lands (client available for Linux, Macs and Windows) and today I found out that the name I chose for my character sounds like south German slang for “chaffing”.

Starting from tomorrow at 9am I will be a LAMP developer. Yay! I’m sure my friends will be glad for me no longer whinging about: Being very bored, there’s only so many times you can be entertained by watching your kernel re-compile Feeling rejected because hardly anyone was replying to my job seeking efforts Having [...]

As most of my friends will know I had a job interview today for an ICT Technician at Devonport High School for Girls. The short story, I didn’t get it. The long story is… There were three other candidates for the job being interviewed for the job on the same day as me, down from [...]

The original bargain of copyright is a deal designed to benefit both the creators and the public. The creator would be granted a limited monopoly for so many years (originally 28 years) so that they could make money off their work, after that time the work would be released into public domain for everyone to [...]

Just had to take a picture of this beautiful firey sunset. Perhaps I should set up a webcam just to capure the view of the sunset from the loft of my house.

I’ve been sorting through my wonderfully organised collection of photos and found these three, part of a 360° panoramic of Dartmoor that I took from the top of Cox Tor when I was out with Ruth and Ben. The rest of them I left out because they didn’t quite join up properly.

Why do all the bad things happen at once? Firstly, on my way to see Skippy I realise I have a flat tyre on my scooter. Secondly, my phone just died (not just ran out of battery) so as well as not being able to phone anyone about the aforementioned flat tyre I also cannot [...]

Here is a story on BBC News about Microsoft’s second appeal against restrictions placed on it by the EU for anti-competitive practices. Microsoft argues that the sanctions violate their intellectual property rights. Intellectual property “rights” are not natural rights they are government granted privileges to encourage contribution to society if someone abuses these to the [...]

Those of you who visit here through the front page probably noticed the new picture on it. I drew it and here’s how… The bike part of the picture is a tracing I did of a photo of Wasi* (pronounced wah-zee). It was done in Sodipodi. The part with me and my penguin was first [...]