Month: June 2006
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Scan scan scan (cont)
Naturally, after yesterday’s network installation of new virus scanning software to my work PC nothing works now that I’ve rebooted. I’ve spent most of this morning either waiting for File Explorer to wake up or trying to view an Excel sheet. I’m seeing a lot of those joyless “(Not Responding)” tags on the end of…
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Hosting Limits
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,…
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Scan scan scan
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…
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More bricks
This time Jack has built the Doodlebops’ bus. (In fact he built and rebuilt it many, many times).
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The Paranormalists
Currently listening to podcast: The Legend of Brown Willy-Part 1 from the album “The Paranormalists” by Crocanapple Productions.
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Working from home
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…
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Anatomy Finished
Today was the last anatomy session for the current first years (I think they were quite happy with that). That’s it, the teaching is over for another year. I’ve still got some web-based revision exercises to add to for them before they sit the exam, but they have been taught all the anatomy that they…