Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Serving out your time
So, our media server is, hopefully, back from the brink of extinction. It was pretty close to being replaced with a pile of removable hard drives, a Pi and a USB hub. However, given the application of various sticks, the help of John and Nikki and these blog posts: Ubuntu login takes you back to…
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Concept, briefly stated
Scene: London street, small deal table with well dressed chap performing the shell game (three card monte with cups) but the patter is based around ‘finding/watching the benefits scrounger’ represented by a small statuette under the cup. Entranced crowd watching and betting (and losing). The camera pulls back and slowly reveals, sliding in and through…
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Oh hai, it’s January
So, it is traditional this time of year to look back on the past year and think ‘what did I achieve’ and discern whether it was ‘a good year’ or not. My vague notions about last year is that I didn’t really make much progress on the house, and that it was a quiet but…
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Overwintering
So, not much in the way of posting at the moment, perhaps because life has fallen into a holding pattern, waiting for a baby appointment, waiting for a baby before we try for the US, and I’ve taken the Christmas period off from working on the house (I know, I only just restarted, but hey).…
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Impressively coordinated failure
So, a little while back I noticed that one of the case-fans on the media server was in the process of failing. It was a shonky-ass glowing fan that I’d only connected a couple of years ago, because the server was running quite hot in the summer. I may have had it connected years ago…
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Stop: Tea break.
I continue to maintain my feeling of pride. My mum’s coming to visit tomorrow; so I’ve spent today tidying and cleaning the office/library/spare-room in which our spare double bed* is located. I’ve emptied, sorted, and prep’d for disposal the contents of our first aid box, which largely consisted of tablets that expired in 2010. I’ve…
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Pride comes after a reasonable degree of success in decorating
So, it’s not quite finished. As usual, time has got the better of me, and my mother’s coming to visit on Wednesday, which means that Tuesday is to be spent tidying. It also meant that we needed to clear out the library-cum-my-office-cum-spare-bedroom (not ‘beadroom’, as I first wrote. Awesomely over-spec though our house is for…
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Oh, the Horror.
So… Oh, before I get started. Didn’t finish NaNoWriMo. A mere 22190 words, sadly. Annnyhow. I spent some of today and much of the last few days off working on Kathryn’s office. With my mum coming to visit soon, the pressure’s on to get the walls prepped and painted in there, so we can move…
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Holidays, minor progress and sickness.
So, I’d have photos of progress in Kathryn’s office to show you but for the fact that my iPhone is shittier than a shitty thing on Saint Shitty’s day. I made the mistake of upgrading to iOS 7.0.4, which should have been fine. But for the fact that for whatever reason the backup made before…
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What’s with the silence?
So, I realise that your life is devoid of meaning without my posts, and that you find yourself weeping quietly to yourselves as you fall asleep on days when I don’t post, so I thought I ought to update you all on the quiet. So, why’ve I been quiet. Well, I’ve been working a lot,…