Category: Daily

  • Pre-Royal Visit

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    The University is full of police searching the grounds today, before tomorrow’s Royal Visit. We had a fire alarm this morning so the Fire Brigade turned up too. Almost a full suite of emergency services.

  • Sun, beer and jenga

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    A sunny weekend, spent with good friends in Cardiff. Excellent.

  • Hosting Limits

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    For the first time I had an automated warning email this morning, telling me that my hosting space is about to reach it’s transfer limit. I have a 10GB transfer limit on the server space that I rent for a bunch of websites (including this one) and this is normally plenty. The culprit is cardifftri.net,…

  • Scan scan scan

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    I’m not PC bashing, really I’m not, and I do understand some of the problems of running the same operating system as 90% of the rest of the world. You see my office PC has just had a network-delivered install of Symantec anti-virus software. This is on top of the Windows Defender beta, Zone Alarm’s…

  • The Paranormalists

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    Currently listening to podcast: The Legend of Brown Willy-Part 1 from the album “The Paranormalists” by Crocanapple Productions.

  • Working from home

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    I’m working from home today for a couple of reasons (one of them being time-related). I’m writing web stuff for the medicine students as fast as I can, and I can do that easily from my study. Unfortunately the room is still looking really bland. We’ve had problems with the finish on the walls of…

  • Royal Visit

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    The Prince of Wales will be visiting Swansea University at the beginning of next month. He’s not interested in the School of Medicine though, more the Institute of Environmental Sustainability. Full story

  • Cardiff Tri Chair

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    Dave “Gumby” Gunthorpe has stepped down as Cardiff Triathletes’ Chairman. I think it’s a fairly time-consuming and tough chair to sit in, and Jeff made it look easy for years and years. Thanks for all your hard work and effort, Gumby. Does this mean the pressure’s off me to sort out the website? Next!

  • New Spaced DVD

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    What the hell is this all about? A new compilation DVD box set for Spaced? They’re a bit late for cashing in on Shaun of the Dead, so are they trying to tell us that it’s over (after promising a third series) or are they suggesting that a new series is being considered? Simon Pegg,…

  • Sunny Weekends

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    I didn’t blog on the weekend, probably because I finally fixed my gaming PC. I’d like to point out that my watercooling rig didn’t actually cause any damage. Sure, the radiator leaked, but the graphic card was the only thing that got dripped on, and it survived. The damage was caused by me swapping bits…