…or “why I sometimes get to close a ticket with the minimum of work.” At work, we have a ticket system. This is a good thing. It allows different people to pick up a task, and (in theory), there doesn’t have to be a lengthy handover. All relevant information is in the ticket. It also [...]
A comment on a mailing list I’m on about a measure of non-ruralness being that Dominos delivers there got me thinking. I live in E1, which is pretty damn central in London, and yet I can’t get a delivery from Dominos. I’m stuck in ADSL land (ADSL2+ is available, but it’s not worth having as [...]
Last week a colleague spotted that Amazon is selling a TP-Link 150Mbps wireless-n access point for a penny shy of £15. A quick look at the description, and I saw that they can be used as a client, which made it worth a shot to replace my homeplug, which works, but is pegged down at [...]
Of course, some people who already know me seem to think I already am one, but I reckon I have never really changed. I was hipster before it was cool. Wait, what?
Using up some annual leave from work today, before the year ended and I lost it, I decided to clean out “The Box Cupboard”. You know, that one cupboard you have, where the boxes go when you buy things, because it might come in handy/the thing might break/some other reason. Apart from realising that I [...]
Not only have I now moved my List O’Crap tumblr from tumblr.matstace.me.uk to listocrap.matstace.me.uk (whilst also making sure that any old permalinks to individual posts still work, thank you nginx for making that easy), but I also got bored with having a plain old list of links for my homepage, and did some amazing artworks [...]
Unfortunately not my living room, although $deity only knows I need to. Nope, over the last few days I’ve been having a bit of a tweak around and tidy up of my online presence, and have actually started using one of my accounts somewhere again. I’ve started on a re-do of my homepage, basing it [...]
That ended quickly then. My self-set challenge to blog every day for November lasted a whole three days. I think I may have fallen down by doing the post for the third on the second, and setting it to publish a day later, while I was out. I thought I was being clever, but I [...]
Over the last couple of years, the Formula 1 seasons seem to have been getting better and better, with two successive British driver’s champions, the drama of the Honda team almost going under, then returning, phoenix-like to dominate the early half of the season with the double diffuser, taking the constructors championship and giving Jenson [...]
I mentioned yesterday that I was having a go progressing through the Hurricane Electric IPv6 Certification. The main reason for this is that they do an IPv6 email test, and being that I want to be part of the Internet, and not just the legacy (IPv4) Internet, I’d decided that I wanted to be able [...]
