I always forget about this until it’s too late: Friday 29 July was Sysadmin Appreciation Day. As the site says, this is “A special day, once a year, to acknowledge the worthiness and appreciation of the person occupying the role, especially as it is often this person who really keeps the wheels of your company… (read more)
(Have been meaning to post this all week) Very sad to hear of the death of Sir Richard Doll. I don’t have anything to add other than what I wrote on the BBC Tributes page, but I’ll include it here just in case that page ever goes away: I work in the Sir Richard Doll… (read more)
Work continues to be very busy. Partly this is because we’ve been settled in our new premises for a little while now and people are bringing up all sorts of issues that they had previously kept quiet about; also, now being A Team Of One, rather than One Of A Team Of Two doesn’t help…. (read more)
James Doohan AKA Scotty from Star Trek has been beamed up, aged 85. Farewell … Also had my first experiment with the Ubuntu Linux distribution. I was setting up a PC at work as a general-purpose workstation for all staff that will be used for: Creating CDs; Scanning documents; Reading/writing from USB flash disks. Few… (read more)
I had an email yesterday from a FreeBSD developer saying that a port of my colordiff utility had been added to FreeBSD. Excellent! Glad to see that it’s proving to be useful. On the back of this, I started googling to see whether it appears anywhere else, and, to my pleasant surprise, it does: The… (read more)
Well, bloody hell. We could all have done without that. Deepest sympathies to those affected … Let’s hope it’s not the start of anything worse. I was reminded today of a quote by an East London man at the time of the IRA bombing of Canary Wharf in 1996. He had lived through the Blitz… (read more)
Well, several things have kicked off today: London has been chosen to host the 2012 Olympics; In the European Parliament, there was a huge vote against the software patents bill – this is a very good thing, although the bill may resurface again in the future: let’s not forget the European Council’s habit of ‘ignoring’… (read more)
