Archive for September, 2007

Dexter

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Just upraded to Dexter (wordpress 2.3 ),
Test,Test,Test,Test,Test,Test,Test !!!
[update]
need to find new theme to support “tagging” or fix the one i have !!
the Info is here, now just need some time
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_tag_cloud
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_tags

Power (oh my god)

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

got my self one of those domestic power meters and been around the house,
HOLY FUCK !!!!
Need to change my storage strategy, the Compaq RA4100 fibre channel chassis with 12 disk may well be over kill, but it is also DAMN expensive to run,
and I have NO idea why the UPS is pulling 100Watts with NO [...]

Need Radox (lots of it)

Monday, September 24th, 2007

My son is in scouts and does a fair few camps each year. The 11th Gloucester, Hucclecote have for the past 30 odd years done a father and son camp every Septemtber where the dads get to live like scouts for a weekend
Having spent saturday morning up to my my groin in mud, and sunday [...]

Severn Trent AARRGGHH

Friday, September 21st, 2007

For years, I have complained about Severn Trent Waters billing practices of sending out bill at RANDOM intervals, on the 14th of the month Demanding payment in 10 days, like WHO has 100 quid to spare in the last few week of a month!!!!
No they have taken the bisuit,
i have just recieved my FIRST bill [...]

Tosser on a bus

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Fairly normal morning, buses actually running to timetable, unlike tuesday !
So I got on the No10 bus, at the bus-stop right outside Hucclecote Library (opposite the Royal Oak public house if you dont do librarys) only to find a tosser playing crap rap very loudly on his mobile phone,
So here is a picture of Mr [...]

Wordpress MU in a Corporate environment

Friday, September 14th, 2007

I have just spent several hours trying to setup wordpress MU 1.2.4 with LDAP in to a CORP Active Directory,
MU does what wordpress does best, it just worked
LDAP auth was fantasic,
but everynow and then i was experiancing a 30 secs slow page load
Well before some of you start shouting, what i now know are obvious [...]

Blonde Plumbing

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Picture this (based on a TRUE story)
A blonde lady flushes a toilet to find it is blocked, and has filled up to the top of the bowl
Blonde thought process “the flush has something to to with the water going away, i will flush it again, problem sorted”
Real life, extra flush adds 10 liters of water [...]

note to self

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Next time you organise a meeting in central london make sure the metronet underground tossers are not on strike


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