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22/09/06 22:14:36 (7 years ago)
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dez
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Makes contents component better (dez)

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  • components/contents.php

    r129 r132  
    99                // Hide files starting with a . 
    1010                if ($file[0]!=".") { 
     11                        $element = array(); 
    1112                        if (!is_dir($base."static".$mypath."/".$file)) { 
    12                                 $foo = ereg_replace("\.txt", "", $file); 
    13                                 if ($summaries) $summary = $DB->GetOne("select summary from static where path=?", array($mypath."/".$foo)); 
    14                                 else $summary = ""; 
    15                                 if ($foo!=@$lastdir) $output[$foo]=$summary; 
    16  
     13                                $pagename = ereg_replace("\.txt", "", $file); 
     14                                if ($summaries) $element['summary'] = $DB->GetOne("select summary from static where path=?", array($mypath."/".$pagename)); 
     15                                if ($pagename!=@$lastdir) $output[$pagename]=$element; 
    1716                        } else { 
    18                                 if ($recurse) $output[$file]=listdir($mypath."/".$file, $recurse, $summaries); 
    19                                 else { 
    20                                         $output[$file]=""; 
    21                                 } 
     17                                if ($recurse) $element['file']=listdir($mypath."/".$file, $recurse, $summaries); 
     18                                if ($summaries) $element['summary'] = $DB->GetOne("select summary from static where path=?", array($mypath."/".$file)); 
     19                                $output[$file]=$element; 
    2220                                $lastdir=$file; 
    2321                        } 

  • components/front.php

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    66$smarty->assign("body", $output); 
    77 
    8 $output = file_get_contents("../static/fragments/Join.txt"); 
     8if (!$session->loggedin) { 
     9        $output = file_get_contents("../static/fragments/Join.txt"); 
     10} else { 
     11        $output = "What goes in the secondary column when someone's logged in?"; 
     12} 
    913$smarty->assign("secondary",$output); 
    1014?> 

  • components/static.php

    r130 r132  
    5757                $record['path'] = $path; 
    5858                if ($id>0) { 
    59                         $DB->AutoExecute("static", $record, 'UPDATE', 'id = $id'); 
     59                        $DB->AutoExecute("static", $record, 'UPDATE', "id = '".$id."'"); 
    6060                } else { 
    6161                        $DB->AutoExecute("static", $record, 'INSERT'); 
    … …  
    9393                if (!file_exists($myfile)) file_put_contents($myfile, "Page under construction\n", LOCK_EX); 
    9494        case "edit": 
    95                 $smarty->assign("editcontent", htmlentities($body)); 
     95                $smarty->assign("editcontent", $body); 
    9696                $record['summary'] = $DB->GetOne("select summary from static where path=?", array($path)); 
    9797                $smarty->assign("record", $record); 

  • htdocs/css/sucs.css

    r126 r132  
    269269} 
    270270 
    271 .box .boxhead h2, .box .boxhead h3, .box .boxfoot p { 
     271.box .boxhead a, .box .boxhead h2, .box .boxhead h3, .box .boxfoot p { 
    272272        color: #ffc62b; 
    273273} 

  • htdocs/index.php

    r130 r132  
    8888// Determine which component to run 
    8989$pathlist = explode('/', @$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']); 
     90while (end($pathlist) === "") array_pop($pathlist); 
    9091$smarty->assign("pathlist", $pathlist); 
    9192$path = ''; 

  • static/About/Room.txt

    r127 r132  
    1 <p>FIXME: What is/is in the SUCS room?</p> 
     1<p>The SUCS room houses our network of Linux desktop PCs, along with spaces for members with laptop computers to get connected.</p> 
    22 
    33        <h3>Where to find the room</h3> 

  • static/About/Staff.txt

    r126 r132  
    5050 
    5151<div class="box"> 
    52 <div class="boxhead"><h2><a name="contact"></a>Contact Us</h2></div> 
     52<div class="boxhead"><h2><a id="contact">Contact Us</a></h2></div> 
    5353 
    5454<div class="boxcontent"> 

  • static/Community.txt

    r126 r132  
    1 <p>Chat with us on the SUCS talker system, <a href="/Community/Milliways">Milliways</a></p> 
    2 <p>...or... (this is the part you fill in, loyal reader)</p> 
     1<ul> <li>Check out up-coming social events on the <a href="javascript:alert(&#39;Not now... But soon!&#39;)">SUCS Calendar</a></li> <li>Chat with us on the SUCS talker system, <a href="Community/Milliways">Milliways</a></li>   <li>Read a selection of blogs by SUCS members on <a href="Community/Planet">Planet</a></li>   <li>Create and administer your own blog using the <a href="https://www.sucs.org/blogs/">SUCS blog system</a></li>   <li>Join us on the <a href="https://www.sucs.org/punbb">SUCS web forum</a></li> </ul> 

  • static/Community/Planet.txt

    r107 r132  
    11 
    2 <div class="daygroup"> 
    3 <h2>August 29, 2006</h2> 
    4  
    5 <div class="box"> 
    6 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3></div> 
    7 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    8 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/jo.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    9  
    10  
    11 <div class="entrygroup"> 
     2 
     3 
     4 
     5 
     6 
     7 
     8 
     9<div class="box"> 
     10        <div class="boxhead"> 
     11                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/" title="Der Blog">Peter Berry (pwb)</a></h3> 
     12        </div> 
     13        <div class="boxcontent"> 
     14                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/pwb.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
     15 
     16<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/oh-the-irony">Oh, the irony</a></h4> 
     17                <div class="entry"> 
     18                        <div> 
     19<div> 
     20                <p>Mark Pilgrim's <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/09/15/cc-by-nc" title="Mark Pilgrim's rant about CC-BY-NC licenses">recent rants</a> about <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> noncommercial licenses inspired me to read <a href="http://www.lessig.org/bio/short/" title="Bio of Lawrence Lessig">Lawrence Lessig</a>'s <a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/" title="&quot;Free Culture&quot; by Lawrence Lessig"><em>Free Culture</em></a>, which is linked from said rant.</p><p>I found an HTML e-book version of it, which is apparently more or less identical to the version published in book form. Right down to the copyright notices. Yup, it even says &quot;Copyright © Lawrence Lessig, 2004. All rights reserved.&quot; It is of course his copyright, but the second part is incorrect, because the book is licensed under CC-BY-NC, which allows noncommercial distribution provided you give the author credit. So his right to restrict distribution is not entirely reserved. It gives the other boilerplate copyright messages as well: &quot;no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ... or transmitted ... without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book&quot; (of course the CC license constitutes permission, so this clause has little effect and is rather misleading) and most laughable:</p><blockquote><p>The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author's rights is appreciated.</p></blockquote><p>I've not read the book yet, but I gather it criticises the lack of creativity caused by the current draconian copyright regime and talks about alternatives, including CC. So the fact that it has a copyright notice of this sort strikes me as very, very bizarre.</p> 
     21                </div>                  </div> 
     22                        <p class="date"> 
     23                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/oh-the-irony">20 September, 2006 07:46 PM</a> 
     24                        </p> 
     25                </div> 
     26 
     27 
     28 
     29 
     30 
     31 
     32        </div> 
     33        <div class="hollowfoot"><div><div></div></div></div> 
     34</div> 
     35 
     36 
     37<div class="box"> 
     38        <div class="boxhead"> 
     39                <h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3> 
     40        </div> 
     41        <div class="boxcontent"> 
     42                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/stringfellow.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
     43 
     44<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=230">Todo</a></h4> 
     45                <div class="entry"> 
     46                        <div> 
     47<p>Well, I think I must be finally sorting out my generally (slightly chaotic) thoughts. Along with this Helpdesk system I have been creating to help organise jobs at work, I have been gradually working my way through a load of things to-do.</p> 
     48<p>I think this is stopping me worrying about so much &#8212; if I just DO it instead of worrying about it then its a lot easier cos I don&#8217;t have to worry! (If that makes sense). Of course this doesnt always work cos some things need careful thought&#8230; but hm. Generally not.</p> 
     49<p>So -</p> 
     50<ul> 
     51<li>Belize flight booked</li> 
     52<li>Flight to london booked for the Belize meet</li> 
     53<li>Vaccinations appointment booked (erk!)</li> 
     54<li>PhD acceptance sent</li> 
     55</ul> 
     56<p>Yet to do&#8230;</p> 
     57<ul> 
     58<li>Passport!!!</li> 
     59<li>Organise a bag-pack for fundraising.</li> 
     60<li>Medical insurance&#8230;</li> 
     61</ul> 
     62<p>Woot. </p> 
     63<p>Speaking of organising: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sprote.com/clutter/">Clutter</a>. To get artwork for iTunes. Not a bad bit of software, but a touch hang-y when adding artwork. 
     64</p>                    </div> 
     65                        <p class="date"> 
     66                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=230">20 September, 2006 06:31 PM</a> 
     67                        </p> 
     68                </div> 
     69 
     70 
     71 
     72 
     73 
     74 
     75        </div> 
     76        <div class="hollowfoot"><div><div></div></div></div> 
     77</div> 
     78 
     79 
     80<div class="box"> 
     81        <div class="boxhead"> 
     82                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/" title="Der Blog">Peter Berry (pwb)</a></h3> 
     83        </div> 
     84        <div class="boxcontent"> 
     85                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/pwb.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
     86 
     87<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/any-fool-can-be-a-wizard">Any fool can be a wizard</a></h4> 
     88                <div class="entry"> 
     89                        <div> 
     90<div> 
     91                <p>Having received the shocking news that <a href="http://sucs.org/~elsmorian/">Elsmorian</a> has never heard <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(rock_opera)">Tommy,</a></em> I went back and listened to it again myself. While I was listening I read the Wikipedia article, which says &quot;Townshend's later interest in synthesizers is foreshadowed by the use of taped sounds played in reverse to give a whistling, chirping sound on 'Amazing Journey'&quot;. I thought &quot;really? never noticed&quot; and listened to it once more.</p><p>It's funny when you revisit things you've listened to casually before and discover new depths. I only even <em>noticed</em> these funny chirpy sounds when I listened to them again just now, while they add a wonderful other-worldliness to the song, reinforcing the idea that it's all a vision inside Tommy's head. They sound great even today, but it was only when I realised how <em>fantastic</em> they must have sounded in 1969, when the album was released, that I could appreciate it properly. Bear in mind that I've been brought up in a musical culture where synthesisers are mundane (we call digital ones keyboards now) and sounds like that are trivial to create with the audio equivalent of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_assembler">universal constructor</a>, the waveform editor. I think it's rather sad that my appreciation of it is jaded by having heard similar sounds hundreds of times before, as just another instrument. </p><p>It all reminded me of Terry Pratchett's remarks about conjuring in his interview with Stephen Briggs in <em>The Discworld Companion</em> (my copy is the second edition), where he explains that he would probably enjoy a Discworld play, with its improvised, amateur special effects, more than a Discworld film, with big-budget CG:</p><blockquote><p>I suppose I'm saying it's the difference between magical tricks being done by a genuine wizard and by a stage conjuror. The wizard does marvellous things but it's, well, <em>magic</em> and therefore in a sense mundane. Yawn yawn, he's produced another damn pigeon, well, that's magic for you. But when you know it's being done by a conjuror with a hearing aid and a day job down at the building society, and all achieved by springs and elastic and secret pockets, this makes it much more interesting. Any fool can be a wizard, but you have to be clever to be a conjuror.</p></blockquote><p>I think you can say the same for any look back at past innovations. It's difficult to appreciate the cleverness of past inventors when the modern man looks at their inventions and shrugs — to him, they're just a prosaic part of his world, no more amazing than a flint knife would have been to a caveman. </p> 
     92                </div>                  </div> 
     93                        <p class="date"> 
     94                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/any-fool-can-be-a-wizard">20 September, 2006 02:26 AM</a> 
     95                        </p> 
     96                </div> 
     97 
     98 
     99 
     100 
     101 
     102 
     103        </div> 
     104        <div class="hollowfoot"><div><div></div></div></div> 
     105</div> 
     106 
     107 
     108<div class="box"> 
     109        <div class="boxhead"> 
     110                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3> 
     111        </div> 
     112        <div class="boxcontent"> 
     113                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/jo.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
     114 
     115<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/knowing-when-to-let-go">Knowing when to let go</a></h4> 
     116                <div class="entry"> 
     117                        <div> 
     118<div> 
     119                <p>My head has just hit a brick wall, please excuse the typos and lack of coherence.  </p><p>I managed to move most of my stuff back to my parent's house this weekend with the help of <a href="http://gimbo.org.uk">Andy</a> and a large white van.  So now I'm sleeping on Bash and Andy's sofa for a week, and very comfortable it is too, but for the last few nights their cats have gotten the midnight (and also 3am) crazies and started prancing around the place whilst I'm trying to sleep.  Add on to this the fact that I've been working since early this morning and have consumed over 6 caffinated beverages (that's a lot for someone who normally doesn't have any) plus any artificially coloured, sugar filled or otherwise unhealthy substance I can get my grubby mitts on but my eyes are still beginning to close, and you might have an idea of how I'm feeling.</p><p>Anyway, that was probably a digression.  Eleven days left until I have to submit my thesis, and I'm still programming.  Oh, if I could get this final piece of prolog to work then surely it'd be the perfect icing on the bittersweet cake of thesis. (Cake or death? Hmmmn.)  If I were less of a perfectionist then I could probably stop now, but I can't help but push just a tiny bit further - I'm told this is a common problem for many PhD students.  I think I'd rather finish off all the writing (corrections and all, had a long but good meeting with Chen today) next week when I'll have my mother taking care of my environment and I don't have to worry about much.  </p><p>And finally, I got my contract through for my new job at the weekend.  I've since been reading up on all the neccessary things, filling in forms and sending them off.  It would probably be exciting if a) I understood all the words and b) the acceptable use policy for computers wasn't quite so restrictive.  Oooh, I did get to choose my laptop and bag, that was quite fun.  But anyway, I either need to find a quiet corner to lay down and have 40 winks or see if I can squeeze out just a tiny bit more code...  </p> 
     120                </div>                  </div> 
     121                        <p class="date"> 
     122                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/knowing-when-to-let-go">19 September, 2006 05:42 PM</a> 
     123                        </p> 
     124                </div> 
     125 
     126 
     127 
     128 
     129 
     130 
     131        </div> 
     132        <div class="hollowfoot"><div><div></div></div></div> 
     133</div> 
     134 
     135 
     136<div class="box"> 
     137        <div class="boxhead"> 
     138                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/wedge/" title="Who watches the Wedgeman?">Will Blackstock (wedge)</a></h3> 
     139        </div> 
     140        <div class="boxcontent"> 
     141                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/wedge.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
     142 
     143<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/wedge/entry/the-perfect-hero-ii">The Perfect Hero II</a></h4> 
     144                <div class="entry"> 
     145                        <div> 
     146<p class="MsoNormal">Right. If any of you in the wide world of the internet are paying attention, you&rsquo;ll have noticed that my entries seem to follow a simple pattern: happy entry; sad entry; happy entry etc.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">So, by that logic, this one&rsquo;s a happy one. This is great because I&rsquo;m happy right now, making the whole thing lots easier. </p>  <p class="MsoNormal">Now I&rsquo;ve got a bit more free time, too. I thought I&rsquo;d revisit the heroism thing (no, I&rsquo;ve not got it out of my system yet) by looking at some of the characters suggested by my lovely readers (thanks all, especially Bash for reminding me about it) and some other people I&rsquo;d meant to cover the first time around but didn&rsquo;t. I&rsquo;ll also go over why I&rsquo;ve not included certain people.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;<!--[endif]--></p>  <p class="MsoNormal">36) James Bond from the James Bond novels and films. Ok, so I&rsquo;ve lumped the Bond from the films in with the character from the novels. This might well be a bit of a mistake as they&rsquo;re not that alike. The Bond from the novels is much more like a real secret agent and has the moral high ground against his adversaries far less often. Bond gets in because he&rsquo;s brilliantly stylish in an Indiana Jones way whilst having a more sophisticated charm for winning over the ladies. Bond&rsquo;s puns and comments as he kills seem to me like a coping mechanism for the trauma of death he keeps having to go through as his close friends and fianc&eacute; (yes, I know <em>On Her Majesty&rsquo;s Secret Service </em>sucked, but it&rsquo;s still canon) are killed around him. </p>  <p class="MsoNormal">He takes life, but he is certain never to inflict too much suffering or to enjoy it. It&rsquo;s strange, really, because he doesn&rsquo;t have a great deal in the way of passion, except for women, but finds himself constantly seeking revenge. There&rsquo;s not much mentioned about his parents in the films or books, only that they died in a climbing accident when he was young. It&rsquo;s possible that his desire to make the world a better place by defeating evil springs from this. If there really is a hidden tragedy behind 007, he&rsquo;s a considerably more interesting character. And if you&rsquo;ve never read anything that Ian Fleming himself wrote about the character I suggest you do so. You&rsquo;ll discover a very different Bond to Brosnan or Connery and especially Moore.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;<!--[endif]--></p>  <p class="MsoNormal">37) The Doctor from <em>Doctor Who</em>. The Doctor has probably the best rogues&rsquo; gallery in creation. From the Daleks to the Cybermen to the Master, they&rsquo;re all brilliant. Now, I should probably mock the Russell T. Davies remake for being crap at this point and complain that the BSG remake is a million times better than anything that man will ever do. With that done, I&rsquo;m going to attempt to avoid the inevitable &ldquo;so which Doctor is the best, then?&rdquo; questions as I did with James Bond. Now that&rsquo;s all over with, I can get on with the entry proper. </p>  <p class="MsoNormal">I remember occasionally watching Doctor Who when I was somewhat younger and appreciating the slight strangeness of Tom Baker and latterly Sylvester McCoy. I was never a diehard fan of the series, but it kept me entertained enough. Now I&rsquo;m a bit older and, mainly thanks to the university&rsquo;s library, rather wiser about Whodom, I appreciate it all rather more.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">Admittedly, there are lots of things in the series that are less than great (the 1996 film, over-reliance on the sonic screwdriver as a Deus Ex Machina writing crutch, 90+% of the assistants, jokes about Daleks and stairs &ndash; I could easily go on) but the fact remains that regardless of exactly who he is, The Doctor is a hero and does what needs to be done to save the galaxy.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;<!--[endif]--></p>  <p class="MsoNormal">38) John Crichton from <em>Farscape</em>. Imagine being the furthest you&rsquo;ve ever been from home. Now imagine you were there alone and didn&rsquo;t know anyone at all. Now imagine that you&rsquo;ve got no way to return to where you belong and that there&rsquo;s a psychopath who really wants to kill you and the only people around you are criminals who aren&rsquo;t even human. Welcome to Crichton&rsquo;s world.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><em>Farscape</em> is one of the few series I&rsquo;ve watched nearly all of. There were a lot of fairly duff episodes (and characters) in there, but nearly any of them that focused on Crichton were great. He&rsquo;s the central character of the series with good reason, he&rsquo;s charming, witty and, most important of all, he&rsquo;s human. His references to 20<sup>th</sup> century pop culture are often cutting and funny, but provide the viewer with a grounding in this futuristic and occasionally nearly incomprehensible world. Crichton&rsquo;s romance with Aeryn is touching and not nearly as predictable as you might expect (in fact, most of the characters on the ship get off with one another at various times) and probably my favourite moment from the entire series is when Crichton (or a Crichton, rather, as he has been split into two identical people at the time) dies more or less in her arms. The resulting tension between her and the remaining Crichton and the truly inspired scene where he plays rock, paper, scissors with a hologram of the dead Crichton (finally having the two of them choose different things) are fantastic moments in a good series.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">I can&rsquo;t leave Crichton and <em>Farscape</em> alone without mentioning Scorpius who is a superb villain and manipulates John by quite literally, getting inside his head. When the two are forced to work as allies, we can really appreciate the differences and, it has to be said, similarities between them.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;<!--[endif]--></p>  <p class="MsoNormal">39) Sylvester &ldquo;Sly Boots&rdquo; Bucelli from <em>Anachronox</em>. <em>Anachronox</em> is one of my favourite games. This has not a lot to do with the plot (sadly generic stuff about the forces of Order battling the forces of Chaos) but with the characters. From the sassy Dr. Bowman to the yammering Grumpos via Pal-18, Paco, the planet Democratus and, of course, Stiletto. Yes, you read that right, you have an entire planet in your party (in miniaturised form), as well as a retired superhero, an assassin and the cutest robot since&hellip; well, probably the cutest robot ever.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">If you aren&rsquo;t familiar with the game, I strongly suggest you pick it up and give it a go. Failing that, the game&rsquo;s cutscenes have been edited into a huge machinima movie which you can find via Google easily enough. It&rsquo;s long, but by the end, you&rsquo;ll have experienced some of the tribulations of the characters, and, of course, appreciated the game&rsquo;s brilliant humour; not to mention some of the tragedy of the past that sits at its core. Any game that can have a character like Rictus appear in it gets the thumbs up in my book. I&rsquo;ve chosen Boots because he&rsquo;s the protagonist and because the others are really just minor characters in his story. Of all of them, only he really gets the backstory he deserves. </p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;<!--[endif]--></p>  <p class="MsoNormal">40) Halo Jones from <em>The Ballad of Halo Jones</em>. Ok, so one of the unwritten rules I decided on for this list was not to have two characters created by the same person or from the same universe. This is the reason that Warren Ellis&rsquo; Spider Jerusalem doesn&rsquo;t appear (he was responsible for Jenny Sparks) and why I&rsquo;ve not mentioned more DC and Marvel superheroes. I&rsquo;m breaking my rules with this entry, and not in the manner I&rsquo;d originally planned. Alan Moore is one of the most talented writers in the comics industry. I&rsquo;d probably say the most talented, in fact. He&rsquo;s that good.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">So I thought I could stretch the rules a bit for him and write about V from the superb <em>V For Vendetta</em>. In light of the recent film, I&rsquo;d imagine that lots of you would be familiar with him and I&rsquo;ve always been secretly happy of the fact that, in my house at least, I&rsquo;m the man from Room V. </p>  <p class="MsoNormal">I changed my mind. You probably want a good explanation for this, which I&rsquo;m not sure I can adequately give. I guess I&rsquo;m just a bit worried that there aren&rsquo;t nearly enough women in this list (ethnic minorities do a little better, but not much, there&rsquo;s a lack of black people, unless you count JC Denton). I&rsquo;m also concerned with spreading the word about characters people haven&rsquo;t heard of. This is why Halo gets this entry to herself. If you&rsquo;re concerned about the rulebreaking, feel free to imagine this as an entry about why Buffy&rsquo;s great. If you&rsquo;ve seen the series, you probably don&rsquo;t really need me to tell you (shame she moped for so damn long after her mum died).</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">Right, to business. Halo is woefully underappreciated by everyone who hasn&rsquo;t read her story. She&rsquo;s probably the first full-blown realistic feminist depicted in a comic (and it only took until 1984 for this to happen. Gotta love the comics industry). It&rsquo;s brilliant that she&rsquo;s not some crazy, homicidal, man-hating bitch and is instead just an everywoman (albeit one from the 50<sup>th</sup> Century) who lives through a fairly strange set of circumstances to become a legend. Of course, a part of the reason I like her so much is due to Moore&rsquo;s nifty ideas and the fact that all we really see is a snapshot of her life. We don&rsquo;t ever discover why she becomes so famous (the reason for this is probably because the series was intended as a nine book saga, of which three were completed) but the ending of the series is desperately poignant, as she&rsquo;s forced to choose between her love and her ideals. If you&rsquo;re really wondering what she chooses, remember that she&rsquo;s a hero.</p><p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">With that done, I&rsquo;m going to discuss some of your suggestions (which I&rsquo;ll thank you for again): </p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Leon &ndash; One of my failings in life is to not have managed to watch all of this film all the way through. When I do, I&rsquo;ll reconsider him.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">The Crow &ndash; Yep, it&rsquo;s another one I&rsquo;ve never seen. I know bits of the story, though, and the real-world tragedy associated with the film is obviously another factor to consider.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Vash The Stampede &ndash; I quite liked bits of <em>Trigun</em>. I liked how Vash&rsquo;s world was black and white and desperately simple. I liked the world/mythos. I liked the animation style. I liked the outfits. I liked the fights. I really liked Legato. I didn&rsquo;t like how &lt;enormous spoiler&gt; Vash abandoned his moral code and killed him &lt;/enormous spoiler&gt;. I&rsquo;m not sure quite what the point of this was, to show that man is inherently flawed (ok, so he&rsquo;s not technically a man, whatever) and that his evil side will always win. Vash isn&rsquo;t a true hero because he abandons everything that makes him a hero.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Bravestarr &ndash; I remember watching this but only fairly faintly. It was good, but sadly never had as much of an impact on me as Transformers or even He-Man. I kinda covered the world of nostalgic cartoons with the former and, if I were to go back to it again, I&rsquo;d mention the likes of Bucky O&rsquo;Hare and He-Man too.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Firefly/Serenity &ndash; Yes, I know not having seen these makes me a sucky geek. I can deal with that. On the list. High up it, in fact.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Sharpe &ndash; I must say I&rsquo;ve never been into the whole &ldquo;heroes of war&rdquo; thing. I&rsquo;m one of those people who really hates war and dislikes the way it&rsquo;s often depicted as having one side as the &ldquo;good&rdquo; one and another as the &ldquo;bad&rdquo; one. I blame propaganda etc. I&rsquo;ll admit to being a bit anachronistic here, but this is the main reason I&rsquo;ve never read the Sharpe books or been interested in watching the TV series. I might have to try both at some point.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Titus Groan &ndash; I&rsquo;m a bit ambivalent about the Gormenghast books, I liked the deep and dark gothic world that Peake depicts, but could never really bring myself to care very much about the characters. Titus, to me, always represented lack of change and I found myself more on the side of Steerpike (even though he&rsquo;s obviously intended as a villain). It was only in the second and especially third books that I began to warm to Titus at all. However, I&rsquo;m not sure if he&rsquo;s really a hero. He doesn&rsquo;t actually do an enormous amount and is only sympathetic because he&rsquo;s the protagonist.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Paul Atreides &ndash; Here&rsquo;s a character I could probably do a full entry on. I&rsquo;d need to re-read the first book and probably read some of the others first, though.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Arthur Dent &ndash; Good old Arthur was actually one of the characters on my original list and was due to go up on it. The main problem with him is that he&rsquo;s not actually a hero at all. Zaphod would be a better choice from the cast as an antihero, but he&rsquo;s not all that suitable either. Arthur&rsquo;s just a bit too dull and predictable and too cowardly and too tea-dependant. Nearly the only thing of significance about him is due to the planet he was born on and the lucky fact that he managed to avoid getting blown up by knowing the right person. Arthur&rsquo;s a cool character for sure, but he&rsquo;s not a hero.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">The Wheel of Time guys &ndash; I&rsquo;m not enormously into the WoT books and have no plans to cover them (too many other things on the list first!) in the immediate future.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Joshua Calvert &ndash; I&rsquo;ve not even heard of this chap before. Another one for the list.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Mulder &ndash; Mulder&rsquo;s tricky, because alone he&rsquo;s just a conspiracy nut. It&rsquo;s Scully&rsquo;s rational judgement that makes anything he believes seem plausible. However, he&rsquo;s usually just investigating things (until later in the show&rsquo;s history, at least) and most of the time his conclusions are just as plausible as Scully&rsquo;s. Maybe I&rsquo;ll do a double entry so-to-speak, on these two at some point.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal">Louis Wu &ndash; Another series I haven&rsquo;t read.</p>    <span>Thanks for continuing along this interesting and occasionally introspective road with me. I&rsquo;m enjoying it, I hope you are too. I&rsquo;ll have to keep collecting things and maybe delve more into the Classical side of heroism next time.</span>                        </div> 
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     260                <div><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/firsttomato.jpg" border="0" alt="The first tomato" width="200" height="200" /></div> <p>One of our six poor abused tomato plants has finally produced its first ripe tomato.</p><p>My dad sowed the seeds some time in March I think, and they sat on the window sill in the kitchen until I got round to buying a couple of growbags in June.</p><p>The plants are now covered in so many tomatoes that they've collapsed, but so far only this one has ripened. </p> <div> </div> 
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     318                <p>...on writing yet another completely broken program masquerading as a web browser. I've been testing the IE7 betas on my sites and having happened to go to the Microsoft site for another reason today noticed that Release Candidate 1 is now out. As is traditional on these occasions, I got it to look at <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html">The Second Acid Test</a>. This was the result:</p> <p><a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/browser200609/ie7.jpg"><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/browser200609/ie7-small.jpg" border="0" alt="Internet Explorer 7 rendering the 2nd Acid Test" width="330" height="240" /></a></p><p>I think it might be marginally better than IE6, but it's very hard to tell. It's certainly <strong>different</strong>.</p> <p>It's worth noting here that Firefox doesn't pass this test either, although it gets a hell of a lot closer:</p>  <p><a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/browser200609/firefox.jpg"><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/browser200609/firefox-small.jpg" border="0" alt="Firefox 1.5.0.7 rendering the 2nd Acid Test" width="330" height="255" /></a></p> <p>Safari on the other hand, gets it right:</p> <p><a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/browser200609/safari.jpg"><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/browser200609/safari-small.jpg" border="0" alt="Safari 2.0.4 rendering the 2nd Acid Test" width="330" height="220" /></a></p> <p>Of course, the fact that the Second Acid Test works doesn't mean that Safari follows the standards completely - it doesn't. The above screenshots do demonstrate, however, that Microsoft clearly aren't even <strong>trying</strong> to follow the standards. Jeff Reifman has an <a href="http://www.idealog.us/2006/08/microsoft_drops.html">interesting post</a> on the topic, in which he refers to <a href="http://www.newscloud.com/read/3625">an article by Paul Thurrott</a> (which caused IE7 to crash when I tried to view it, by the way). When the news editor of &quot;Windows IT Pro&quot; - clearly a Microsoft-oriented publication - describes Internet Explorer 7 as &quot;<span class="article"><span>a cancer on the Web that must be stopped&quot; there has to be something very seriously wrong with it.</span></span></p><p>A clue about Microsoft's priorities can be found in the list of categories used by <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/">IEBlog</a>. It doesn't feature standards compliance in any form, yet it should have a category of its own. </p><p>Interestingly, I note that Chris Wilson was <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx">making noises</a> on IEBlog about standards compliance in July last year, saying things like &quot;[standards support] will be better in Beta 2&quot;. It probably was a bit better (I wasn't paying attention to IE 7 then) but it's still not getting close now. In fact, Chris says in his post that Microsoft aren't trying to pass the Seccond Acid Test with IE7. Why the hell not?! If other browsers can do it, Microsoft, with their enormous wealth, should be able to. Since he wrote that blog post, they've had over a year to work on the IE7 code and if they had wanted to, they could have made it follow the standards. </p><p>Markus Mielke <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/712830.aspx">argues</a> that following the standards would break too much for existing sites. Again, other browsers manage perfectly well. As far as I'm concerned it's pretty straightforward: if a document has a doctype, it is claiming to follow the standard declared in that doctype. If it doesn't, the author should hardly be surprised when they find the page breaks. If the document <em>doesn't</em> have a doctype, it's not following the standards anyway and the browser can do what it likes with it - that's where IE should be avoidng breaking pages. </p><p>Further evidence of Microsoft's lack of commitment to standards comes in the form of their XHTML for IE 7. The &quot;RunOnce&quot; page that appears when you first open IE 7 RC1 has <a href="http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx">57 validation errors</a> on it. A lot of these are plain stupidity - using uppercase tags, missing quotes round variables, and attributes that don't exist. They're even serving XHTML with a MIME type of text/html instead of application/xhtml+xml. I wouldn't mind quite so much if it was only failing on proprietary tags (of which there are some), but this is just laziness. </p><p>Also, from a UI point of view, I notice that the menu bar isn't at the top and so far haven't found a way to make it go to the top. I think they're trying to do away with the menu bar, opting to glue individual menus onto toolbar buttons. If this is a taste of the way Vista is going to work, I can see there are going to be a hell of a lot of pissed-off users. It seems they've made the URL bar with its buttons and search box a special case - never a good thing - and even when you turn off the &quot;Lock the Toolbars&quot; option, it's still not movable.</p><p>Of course, even if Microsoft were to follow the standards in IE 7, this wouldn't be the end to IE-specific hacks, because we're going to have to support IE 6 for a long time to come - IE7 is only available for WinXP and above. Presumably this is supposed to be some sort of incentive for people to upgrade from earlier versions of Windows, but it clearly isn't going to work. Anyone who uses IE as their default browser either doesn't care about its problems or doesn't know there are alternatives - in which case, they're hardly likely to know about IE7 either. </p> 
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     337                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3> 
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     342<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/betting-ends">Betting ends!</a></h4> 
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     346                <p>So, just before going out pirating on Wednesday night, I was standing in <a href="http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~cswill">Will's</a> garden at 7pm when I got a phone call.  And a job.  Hurrah!</p><p>My official title is going to be &quot;Associate Manager, Forensics and Fraud&quot;, which to me sounds like I should have some kind of police badge to whip out and flash at people.  I'll be based in central London (just off Fleet Street, near Farringdon Tube station), starting on the 9th October, working for one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_auditors">big 4</a>. (Or, as I prefer to think of them, the big-not-sure-how-many-of-them-are-left)  There's lots of foreign travel involved, mostly in Europe plus all sorts of other fun things like fully funded training and certification.  Well, they seem like fun to me, I just like getting letters after my name!  So, it's going to be all business suits, security clearance cards and little suitcases on wheels from next month.</p><p>Of course, another perk is the location, I can finally get some regular pole dancing lessons, visit my parents more frequently and have some semblence of a normal love life.  Well, location wise anyway.  </p><p>But I digress, collecting the van later today to move all my furniture back to my parent's house this weekend.  It's a 600 mile round trip, and I'm a little nervous that not everything will fit in the back of the van.  It's a good job I have +skill in the packing!  Right, I'm off to fax off my qualifications and contract.  Tally ho!</p> 
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     348                        <p class="date"> 
     349                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/betting-ends">15 September, 2006 09:21 AM</a> 
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     370<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/entry/graph">Graph</a></h4> 
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     373<p>After yesterday afternoons problems with silver, I've finaly gotten around to getting cacti to plot the tempratures reported by the system sensors.</p> <p><img src="https://sucs.org/stats/cacti/graph_image.php?local_graph_id=68&amp;rra_id=1" border="0" /></p> <p>Now I just need to get around to ploting the disk tempratures and another graph for the UPS status... </p>                    </div> 
     374                        <p class="date"> 
     375                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/entry/graph">14 September, 2006 11:04 AM</a> 
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     391                <h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3> 
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     396<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=229">Reading Material</a></h4> 
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     399<p>Recently I have read some rather good books:</p> 
     400<ul> 
     401<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.book-club.co.nz/books04/1timetravelerswife.htm">The Timetraveller&#8217;s Wife</a> (Audrey Niffennegger)</li> 
     402<li><a target="_blank" href="http://thebestreviews.com/review26578">Vanishing Acts</a> (Jodi Picoult)</li> 
     403<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2004_02_001530.php">Not the end of the World</a> (Kate Atkinson)</li> 
     404</ul> 
     405<p>&#8230;and I want some more of a similar sort. (Preferably more toward Niffennegger/Atkinson&#8217;s style than Picoult&#8217;s)</p> 
     406<p>Suggestions on a postcard please. Or just leave a comment <img src="http://blog.synfinity.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> 
     407</p>                    </div> 
     408                        <p class="date"> 
     409                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=229">13 September, 2006 08:04 PM</a> 
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     419<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=228">JEP Madness&#8230;</a></h4> 
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     422<p>Its all go at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jerseyeveningpost.com/">JEP</a> at the moment.</p> 
     423<p>In the past couple of weeks we&#8217;ve had <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/showarchive.pl?ArticleID=611September2006&#038;year=">stories</a> of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/showarchive.pl?ArticleID=2512September2006&#038;year=">pony</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/showarchive.pl?ArticleID=1613September2006&#038;year=">doping</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/showarchive.pl?ArticleID=65September2006&#038;year=">divers</a> &#8216;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/showarchive.pl?ArticleID=56September2006&#038;year=">lost</a>&#8216; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/showarchive.pl?ArticleID=178September2006&#038;year=">at</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/showarchive.pl?ArticleID=1511September2006&#038;year=">sea</a>, breakages, coding and lots more besides.</p> 
     424<p>One of our server machines (a Sun box which handles an archive system) controls/acts upon two storage devices (Network Attached Storage - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nasdatastorage.co.uk/productsnas4300.htm">NAS</a>) one in Jersey and one in Guernsey. I noticed as I was doing the backup tapes a little while ago that the NAS box was beeping and there was a fan alert. ITEX were called in&#8230;</p> 
     425<p>So the other day when the pony doping story hit the press, ITEX came to investigate the NAS box and we discovered that the CPU fan was spinning irregularly and intermittently. Seemingly the control circuit or the feedback sensor was dead and this caused it to go squiffy (technical terms here folks&#8230;).</p> 
     426<p>Having pulled this box&#8217;s guts out and returned to my desk, one of the editors rushed over and asked me to get a page from the archive as a matter of urgency as the Daily Mail (owned by the same folk as the JEP) had <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=404723&#038;in_page_id=1770">picked</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=404766&#038;in_page_id=1770">up</a> on the pony doping shenannigans&#8230; a-hahaha&#8230;</p> 
     427<p>Fortunately the lovely people at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.picdar.com/">Picdar</a> (who run the archive system) were able to point our archive at Guernsey&#8217;s NAS (As they are just mirrors of each other) and all was well!<br /> 
     428What relevance that has to anyhting I am unsure, but I&#8217;ve learnt some stuff and feel more confident for having to deal with that situation (successfully I might add).</p> 
     429<p>The IT Helpdesk that I have been developing is coming along well. The code is a little messy but it all works rather well, features/setup includes:</p> 
     430<ul> 
     431<li>Users, Jobs, Responses tables, storing the obvious</li> 
     432<li>The ability to see new/active/closed jobs</li> 
     433<li>The ability to email-reply to the job from within the system</li> 
     434<li>The ability to add log notes to jobs for other technicians</li> 
     435<li>A &#8216;transaction&#8217; history for each job.</li> 
     436<li>System wide alerts (for example, for when the email system breaks (a daily occurence thanks to some strange active directory/dns/exchange type problems)) which can be triggered by the user who discovers it and reset by technicians</li> 
     437<li>Job searches</li> 
     438</ul> 
     439<p>Its all fairly basic, but I&#8217;m pleased that it does what I intended and even more so that a lot of the staff are using it as it was intended. It allows us to better keep track of whats going on and inform each other (at the moment a lot of jobs are email based and only end up in one technicians inbox&#8230;). There are a couple of features i want to add but am not yet sure how:</p> 
     440<ul> 
     441<li>The ability to reply to the system - this involves emailing user@the.name.of.the.box and then using fetchmail (i guess?) however I have not a clue how to process this (though I expect some fetchmail rules are probably fairly simple/common things) and less clue of how to set this up on a Mac (presumable I need an SMTP server on the box&#8230;?)</li> 
     442<li>The ability to use some sort of fancy AJAX updating thing rather than a meta-equiv refresh (current omplementation on the Admin index)</li> 
     443<li>Set up Apache to allow https logins as opposed to http (as we are using a common password&#8230; eep&#8230; fortunately none of the staff outside the IT/Web department are savvy enough to intercept this, though yes, that is beside the point).</li> 
     444</ul> 
     445<p>Hmm a few things to keep me busy. 
     446</p>                    </div> 
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     448                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=228">13 September, 2006 05:55 PM</a> 
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     458<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=227">iTunes Game</a></h4> 
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     461<p>Here&#8217;s a little game I thought up a while ago&#8230; probably blogged it already. Oh well.</p> 
     462<p>Take one iTunes Library</p> 
     463<p>Take one iTunes searchbox</p> 
     464<p>Take one random 3 letter string</p> 
     465<p>Mix the 3 letter string into the searchbox well.</p> 
     466<p>Leave to cool for a few seconds, allowing the library to settle down to a small yet highly delicious size.<br /> 
     467Serve up with a Play button.<br /> 
     468Potentially serves an entire club.</p> 
     469<p>Enjoy the randomness that ensues. 
     470</p>                    </div> 
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     472                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=227">13 September, 2006 05:31 PM</a> 
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     482<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=226">SMTP Relays</a></h4> 
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     485<p>I have been developing a &#8216;Helpdesk&#8217; system at work to help us in the IT dept. keep track of what needs to be done and status of current jobs and so on.</p> 
     486<p>This system includes a feature to reply to the problem originator by email (as all users have @jerseyeveningpost.com this should be easy&#8230;), to that end I have been using hte PHP mail() function to attempt to send these replies.</p> 
     487<p>No luck! The reason? Well, as you&#8217;d expectthis attempts to send (Via postfix) to mail.jerseyeveningpost.com - an address which eventually gets put through to our MailMarshal box (which filters spam and suchlike). Thats fine if you are outside the building but fails internally for some reason (ITEX seem to expect this, though I think its daft - you should be able to connect to your own external IP - Dave&#8217;s setup allows this in swansea although mine doesnt here&#8230; hm). So anyway.. the fix for this&#8230;</p> 
     488<p>In the postfix config I added a line which causes it to send everything through a relay first. The relay being the IP address of the MailMarshal box (not hte hostname as that fails&#8230; odd). I tried gettign the Mac to resolve mail.jerseyeveningpost.com to the MailMarshal box using the hosts file and various other methods without success. It seems host() ignores this and hence finds the external IP. Rather annoying. (Though telnet resolved the IP i&#8217;d added to the hosts file, &#8216;host mil.jerseyeveningpost.com&#8217; still resolved the external IP&#8230; annoyingly).</p> 
     489<p>Anyway, just thought I&#8217;d note that down incase any of it is of any use to anyone anywhere.</p> 
     490<p>Thanks to Dez for all his help. 
     491</p>                    </div> 
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     493                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=226">13 September, 2006 05:26 PM</a> 
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     509                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3> 
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     512                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     514<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/haircut">Haircut</a></h4> 
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     518                <div><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/haircut.jpg" border="0" alt="Me with my new haircut" width="186" height="250" /></div> <p>Marianne came today to discuss her makeup website, which I'm going to be doing for her. While she was here, she cut my hair. She says she doesn't often get the opportunity to do a proper male haircut - usually it's just a case of trimming - so I was good practice :-) </p><p>Naturally, I've had to replace my hackergotchi and this time I did alpha transparency on the hair so it looks right. </p> <div> </div> 
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     521                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/haircut">13 September, 2006 05:07 PM</a> 
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     537                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3> 
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     542<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/im-bringing-sexy-back">I'm bringing sexy back</a></h4> 
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     546                <p>Phew.  I'm still here.</p><p>Last week and the beginning of this week was as manic, draining and stressful as expected.  But there was some fun along the way.  And now everything job-hunting wise has died down a little, I can enjoy the fruits of my labours.  So far, I've had one rejection (the academic job, so no tears there), an offer for my perfect job in the wrong place and working for peanuts (slightly vexing), and now I'm just waiting to hear about a job in London which wasn't originally my first choice, but comes out on top when you look at the job/prospects/money graph.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd much rather do the ideal job for less money, but they were literally offering me half what I'm expecting to be offered for the slightly-less-perfect London job.</p><p>I returned to the lab from all my interviews to find on my desk a draft thesis, carefully annotated by Chen.  Since I've been back, I think he's been off sick (must remember to attach health warning to the abstract in future) so I haven't had chance to talk to him about it yet, but I'm pretty happy with the comments he's made on paper.  Meanwhile, my brain is still in full Prolog mode, whilst I try to make sense of the code I wrote last week.  So, I guess I should get back to it.    </p><p>Ah, and I forgot to say, my flat is now almost entirely made of boxes.  The big move is T - 3 days, but I'm trying hard to only think about things one day at a time unless my head explodes.  The pole is still up and should get some use tomorrow night, I just hope I'm not so out of practice that I fall on my head.  I should probably do some more packing tonight, but instead I think I'll be running around Wind Street dressed as a pirate.  Don't you just hate it when that happens? ;)  </p> 
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     548                        <p class="date"> 
     549                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/im-bringing-sexy-back">13 September, 2006 03:29 PM</a> 
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     573<p>This is just really an excuse to use the flv player *grins* this is from our Bude holiday in 2004</p> 
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     580<p><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=490">click here</a> to see all 23 videos (<a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/auto_links/klogs/?kw=sn&amp;rl=http://www.shepherdnick.co.uk/" title="http://www.shepherdnick.co.uk/" id="al_7">SN</a>&#8217;s videos really but never mind!) 
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     582                        <p class="date"> 
     583                        <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=489">13 September, 2006 01:34 AM</a> 
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     599                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/" title="Thoughts of an Educated Fool">Sean Handley (talyn256)</a></h3> 
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     604<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/howto-install-mods-for-ut-under-linux">HOWTO: Install mods for UT under Linux</a></h4> 
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     607<p>(this guide follows on from here: <a href="http://www.sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/howto-get-unreal-tournament-working-under-linux">http://www.sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/howto-get-unreal-tournament-working-under-linux</a>).<br /><br />In addition to installing the 436 version of UT, it's also nice to be able to use the official expansion packs and other mods, allowing access to some nice skins, maps and mutators.<br /><br />Unreal Tournament mods come in a .umod format, which installs upon a double-click in Windows. In Linux, installing a mod is somewhat trickier.<br /><br />First thing's first, though. UT disc 2 contains a load of hi-res textures. Installing this is simply a matter of putting the disc in the drive and typing:<br /><strong><br />$ sudo cp -rf /media/cdrom0/Textures/* /usr/local/games/ut/Textures/ </strong>(where cdrom0 is the location of your drive and /usr/.../Textures/ is the path to the Textures folder in the UT install directory.<br /><br />Next, we need to install a nice program called umod which will simplify the modding process. First, we need some perl packages.<br /><br /><strong>$ sudo apt-get install perl libtie-ixhash-perl perl-tk libarchive-zip-perl</strong><br /><br />Next, we need to download a perl library which handles ini files. This doesn't appear to be in the Ubuntu repositories, probably as a result of it being relatively obscure. We can download it using:<br /><strong><br />$ wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libc/libconfig-ini-perl/libconfig-ini-perl_1.08.orig.tar.gz</strong><br /><br />Next, we uncompress and extract the files and perform an install:<br /><strong><br />$ tar -xf libconfig-ini-perl_1.08.orig.tar.gz<br />$ cd Config-Ini-1.08<br />$ perl MakeFile.PL<br />$ make<br />$ sudo make install</strong><br /><br />Now we should be ready to install umod:<br /><strong><br />$ wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/umodpack/umodpack_0.5b16.orig.tar.gz<br />$ tar -xf umodpack_0.5b16.orig.tar.gz<br />$ cd umodpack-0.5b16<br />$ perl Makefile.PL<br />$ make<br />$ sudo make install</strong><br /><br />Here are download links to the 4 official expansion packs.<br /><strong><br />$ wget ftp://ftp.edome.net/mirror/beyondunreal/official/ut/utbonuspack.zip<br />$ wget ftp://ftp.edome.net/mirror/beyondunreal/official/ut/utbonuspack2.zip<br />$ wget ftp://ftp.edome.net/mirror/beyondunreal/official/ut/utinoxxpack.umod<br />$ wget ftp://ftp.edome.net/mirror/beyondunreal/official/ut/utbonuspack4.umod</strong><br /><br />Packs 1 and 2 appear to be zipped umods, so we unzip using:<br /><br /><strong>$ unzip utbonuspack.zip<br />$ unzip utbonuspack2.zip</strong><br /><br />Bonus Pack 2 includes a couple of maps freely. Move them to the UT directory:<br /><br /><strong>$ sudo mv *.unr /usr/local/games/ut/Maps/</strong> (where /usr/.../Maps is you UT install directory)<br /><br />Now we install Bonus Pack 1 using umod. The -b flag specifies the UT install directory, which umod caches for future reference. Further mod installs will go here, unless specified otherwise.<br /></p><p><strong>$ sudo umod -b /usr/local/games/ut -i UTBonusPack.umod</strong><br /><br />Finally, the other 3 official packs:<br /><br /><strong>$ sudo umod -i DE.umod<br />$ sudo umod -i utinoxxpack.umod<br />$ sudo umod -i utbonuspack4.umod</strong></p><p>Upon installing Bonus Pack 3, umod may complain that the install version is 400 and not 436. This happens to be two lies in one: The version is actually 436 and umod installs the mod, despite claiming it can't. Why? Good question... </p><p>And there we have it! Tasty mods galore :-)</p>                  </div> 
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     609                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/howto-install-mods-for-ut-under-linux">13 September, 2006 12:15 AM</a> 
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     633<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52157429@N00/241808987/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/79/241808987_da037497f1_m.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52157429@N00/241808987/">Modified PowerBook Side / Rear</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/52157429@N00/">seymansey</a>.</span><br clear="all" /><p>Out of all the gadgets I've bought over the years, and out of all the laptops I own (and theres a few hehe) my Apple Powerbook G4 12" is by far my favourite. Not only from the technical side of things about how Apples work, etc, but because it's simply nice to look at and more importantly use. <br /><br />Being a geek is my trade, and there are few things I own which are left unmodified. My powerbook is certainly not what you would call standard what with various upgrades done under the hood, but my favourite modification has to be the old style 'rainbow' logo on the lid of the powerbook, which glows when I'm using it. Makes a cool change to the usual ice white glow these normally come with. I like it anyway ;)</p>                      </div> 
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     658<p>As you may know SUCS has built a new machine to act as our server, known as silver. <br /> 
     659We currently plan to make the change over to the new machine towards the end of the week commencing the 18th of September. <br /> 
     660We have changed a few key pieces of our set-up to improve security and ease of management. Though these changes will generally not affect you whatsoever, there are a few major changes that we need to bring to your attention.<br /> 
     661See <a href="http://sucs.org/adminwiki/NewSilver/UserInfo">http://sucs.org/adminwiki/NewSilver/UserInfo</a> for more information.<br /> 
     662In other news, a new homepage for the society is under development at <a href="http://beta.sucs.org/">http://beta.sucs.org/</a> so swing by and take a look if you’re interested. If you fancy helping out please contact dez or chckens (both @sucs.org). </p>                       </div> 
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     742<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/howto-get-unreal-tournament-working-under-linux">HOWTO: Get Unreal Tournament working under Linux</a></h4> 
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     745<p>After several hours poking, prodding and fiddling I have successfully made UT work under Linux! You can find similar howto guides all over the web but I'm so proud I want to make my own :-)<br /><br />NOTE: You need a retail copy of the game CD to make this work. <br /><br />Ok. I'm running Ubuntu Dapper with an NVidia GeForce 4 MMX.<br /><br />Before we can dive into deathmatchey goodness, we need to make sure the nvidia drivers are installed. Open a new terminal window (in gnome this is via Applications-&gt;Accessories-&gt;Terminal) and enter:<br /><br /><strong>$ sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-dri libglu1-mesa mesa-utils nvidia-glx</strong><br /><br />When this is finished, we need to edit the X.org settings:<br /><br /><strong>$ sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf </strong>(use your editor of choice here - gedit is easy if you're a stranger to vim)<br /><br />Navigate to the section called &quot;Device&quot; and edit it to appear as below with the exception of &quot;Identifier&quot;. <br /></p><pre><em>Section &quot;Device&quot;<br />        Identifier      &quot;NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card&quot;<br />        Driver          &quot;nvidia&quot;<br />        Option          &quot;SLI&quot;   &quot;Auto&quot;<br />        Option          &quot;RenderAccel&quot;           &quot;true&quot;<br />EndSection</em></pre><p>Save the file and exit the editor. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will restart the X session and we can see if our efforts have succeeded (a NVidia logo should be shown). </p><p>We can all thank <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki </a>for putting together a neat Linux UT installer. It's available here: <a href="http://www.beyondunreal.com/main/ut/utessential.php">http://www.beyondunreal.com/main/ut/utessential.php</a>. Click the &quot;UT Linux 436 Full&quot; link and select  the FileFly mirror (it gets to the point, without queueing for download and other such nonsense).<br /><br />Insert the UT disc and allow Ubuntu to auto-mount.<br /><br />Navigate to the directory into which you downloaded the file and type: <br /><br /><strong>$ chmod +x ut-install-436.run</strong><br /><br /><strong>$ export SETUP_CDROM=/media/cdrom0</strong> (or whichever drive the disc is in) <br /><br /><strong>$ sudo ./ut-install-436.run --keep</strong><br /><br />The default settings worked fine for me here but change them if you wish. Click &quot;Begin install&quot; and proceed with the install.<br /><br />At this point,<br /><br /><strong>$ ut</strong><br /><br />should run the game. However, you may get a path-not-found error. This is easily solved with:<br /></p><p><strong>$ vim .bashrc</strong></p><p>and on a new line enter: <em>export UT_DATA_PATH=/path/to/ut/System</em><br /><br />However, you may still have issues getting it to run. I could get into the menu system but it segfaulted when I tried to launch into a game. I thought this was an issue to do with XGL/Compiz, to begin with. Turns out you can run both in love and harmony :-)<br /><br />XGame is an application that allows games to run more smoothly under Linux by launching them in separate X-Sessions. Neat idea. However, you can do this yourself easily by typing:<br /><br /><strong>$  sudo X :1 -ac &amp; DISPLAY=:1 ut</strong><br /><br />This should launch a new X-Session which you can navigate to with Ctrl+Alt+F8 and back to the Gnome/KDE session with Ctrl+Alt+F7.</p><p>Sadly, because it's being run in the background, the password prompt can go awry. To work around this issue, use sudo on a different command (e.g. sudo apt-get update). This will give you sudo access for a few minutes without prompting for a password, allowing you to run the command as root without any problems. </p><p>To make life even easier, you can create an alias in your .bashrc file.<br /><strong><br />$ vim .bashrc</strong> </p><p>and on a new line enter: <em>alias utx='sudo X :1 -ac &amp; DISPLAY=:1 ut'</em></p><p>And that should be that! Enter</p><p><strong>$ utx</strong></p><p>on the command line to launch and happy fragging! (to close the new X session located at Ctrl+Alt+F8, use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace).<br /></p><p>If you have any problems, give me a shout (<a href="mailto:talyn256[at]sucs[dot]org">talyn256[at]sucs[dot]org</a>) and remember the SUCS games server runs UT classic - join a game some time (<a href="http://games.sucs.org">http://games.sucs.org</a>) </p><p><strong>Sources:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=153181">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=153181</a><br /><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000081">http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000081</a><br /><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=145397">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=145397</a></p>                 </div> 
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     747                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/howto-get-unreal-tournament-working-under-linux">10 September, 2006 03:36 PM</a> 
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     768<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/t-shirt-sexiness">T-Shirt Sexiness</a></h4> 
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     771<p>w00t! </p><p>My new SUCS T-shirt arrived this morning. Don't I look dashing in it? ;-)</p><p><img src="http://www.sucs.org/~talyn256/pictures/gal/Misc/talyn256_sucs-shirt.jpg" border="1" alt="T-shirt!" /></p><p>This and lots more highly-fashionable garments available here: <a href="https://beta.sucs.org/Shop">https://beta.sucs.org/Shop</a> </p>                   </div> 
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     797<p>Having been on the exec committee of <a href="http://sucs.org">SUCS</a> for two years I&#8217;ve come to realise how much potential there is for organisations to utilise student computer societies to advocate and spread awareness of free/open source software at a local level and to a demographic which would find some of the principles surrounding open source attractive. Students, that is. Google has already exploited this font of publicity with their <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&amp;sid=pizza">pizza ambassador</a> program.</p> 
     798<p>For example, student computer societies annually attend some kind of "freshers fayre" at which all of the societies in the university try to attract and sign up new members or just increase awareness of what their society is capable of. To attract new members, societies give out enticing freebees to any passing students, sometimes society-branded to market the society or sponsor-branded because the freebees were funded by outside organisations.</p> 
     799<p>If student societies were offered the opportunity to get sent some freebees, like OS installation CDs, branded pens, small notepads, wall planners, etc. I&#8217;m sure they would take it up without hesitating. In return, the organisation that helped the society out would get some free targeted publicity and the pleasant side effect would be happy students who don&#8217;t have to eat into their student budgets to buy commercial software.</p> 
     800<p>Unfortunately the life of a computer society is an unstable one. From year to year the executive committee changes, and with that so does the society&#8217;s priorities. Personalities and levels of motivation also fluctuate annually. So I think that some proactivity (&lt;/buzzword&gt;) from the open source organisation could help it a great deal should they think it would be a worthwhile strategy.</p> 
     801<p>Unfortunately, in the UK at least, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a single point of contact for all university computer societies. <a href="http://compsoc.org.uk/">Compsoc.org.uk</a> was set up to gather all UK computer societies together but it has been dormant for quite a while, not all UK computer societies have participated in it and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be as much interest in getting it on its feet as there probably should be¹.</p> 
     802<p>I guess I could be accused of being lazy and told that I should contact a possible sponsor for these things under my own steam instead of just hinting about it in my blog, but this entry isn&#8217;t for the sake of my computer society, I thought i&#8217;d just get my insight out in the open so that organisations such as Canonical and computer societies in general might benefit from it.</p> 
     803<p>_______________________<br />1. I hear someone is creating a new CMS-based website for them, but it&#8217;ll need to be publicised sufficiently for it to work.</p><p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/marketing-open-source-to-universities---a-brain-dump">Link</a>]</p>                    </div> 
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     830                My brother introduced me to <a href="http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs">Jonathan Coulton's work</a> today. In particular, he pointed me at &quot;Re Your Brains&quot;, which I think should be adopted as the official anthem of <a href="http://urbandead.com/">Urban Dead</a> :-) Another song appropriate for certain SUCS members is &quot;Code Monkey&quot;... enjoy! 
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     849                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/" title="Thoughts of an Educated Fool">Sean Handley (talyn256)</a></h3> 
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     854<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/where-were-we">Where were we?</a></h4> 
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     857<p>Hmm, long time no blog :-)</p><p>I finished my 10-week <a href="http://www.itwales.com">IT Wales </a>placement at <a href="http://www.caerlas.org.uk">Caer Las</a>, last Friday. It was a fun 10 weeks and it went by very swiftly. It was a pleasure working with the other IT staff and I'm proud of the work I produced. I was allowed a lot of creative freedom on the project and I think that gave me a big incentive to put in 100%. VBA, Access and Microsoft SQL server wouldn't have been my tools of choice but VBA does make <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development">RAD</a> easy and testing seemed to show promising results :-)</p><p>Since my last blog, I've seen <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/snakesonaplane/">Snakes On A Plane</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/ascannerdarkly/">A Scanner Darkly</a> and can recommend the former as an excellent action movie which lives up to the hype, and the latter as a well-made, but disorienting* sci-fi.&nbsp;</p><p>In just over 5 days I'll be turning 21! Hope everyone can make it to my <a href="http://www.sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/captain-seans-21st-birthday-adventure">party</a>, it should be most triumphant.</p><p>The dissertation research is going well. I've covered a lot of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Architecture-A-Quantitative-Approach/dp/1558607242/sr=8-2/qid=1157662437/ref=sr_1_2/202-2156446-0131802?ie=UTF8&amp;s=gateway">Hennessy and Patterson</a> and made friends with <a href="http://arbyte.us/blog_archive/2006/08/Bringing_Together.html">a bloke working for Intel</a>. Not bad going, really :D I read a couple of papers by <a href="http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csneal/">Neal Harman</a> and <a href="http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csjvt/">Prof. Tucker</a> and rather wished I hadn't but I think that's probably par for the course. I sense some <a href="http://www-compsci.swan.ac.uk/%7Ecsjvt/JVTTeaching/TPL.html">TPL </a>demons need to be vanquished! </p><p>___________________<br />*The camoflage suits on a large screen made me feel quite nauseous and the plot was very confusing, having not read the book. Perhaps I should remedy this :-)&nbsp;</p>                  </div> 
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     859                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/where-were-we">07 September, 2006 09:02 PM</a> 
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     875                <h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3> 
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     880<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=225">Reverse SSH &#8212; Just in case I forget (again)</a></h4> 
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     883<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/ssh_tunnelling.html">This</a> is how I first learnt about reverse SSH tunnels just over a year ago&#8230;</p> 
     884<p>And now I have need for it again, but I had forgotten (and google was easier than man pages <img src="http://blog.synfinity.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p> 
     885<p>So incase that page ever goes down, I copied it here</p> 
     886<p>(the following is a copy from that page)</p> 
     887<h3> 
     888&#8220;Reverse&#8221; ssh tunnel</h3> 
     889<p>It is possible to create a &#8220;reverse&#8221; ssh tunnel. The reverse tunnel will allow you to create an ssh tunnel from your work computer to your home computer, for example, and then login to your work machine from your home machine <span>even if your work firewall does not permit ssh traffic initiated from your home machine!</span></p> 
     890<p>For this to work, an ssh server must be installed on your work and home computer, and ssh (TCP port 22) must be allowed outbound from your work computer to your home computer.</p> 
     891<p>ssh -R <span>remote_port</span>:localhost:22 <span>your_home_computer</span></p> 
     892<p>ex. <span>ssh -R 2048:localhost:22 home.computer.com</span></p> 
     893<p>At home, you would then run <span>ssh -p 2048 localhost</span> to log into your work computer via ssh.</p> 
     894<p>Here is a script I run every 5 minutes through the <span>cron</span> facility on my work system to make sure the reverse ssh tunnel to my home system is up and running. It is useful in case <span>my_home_system</span> is rebooted.<br /> 
     895<br />  <span>#!/bin/sh</span><br />  <br />  <span># $COMMAND is the command used to create the reverse ssh tunnel</span><br />  <span>COMMAND=&#8217;ssh -N -R 31337:localhost:22 </span><span>my_home_system</span>&#8216;<br />  <br />  <span># Is the tunnel up?</span><br />  <span>CHECK_TUNNEL=`ps -eo args | grep &#8220;$COMMAND&#8221; | grep -v grep`</span><br />  <br />  <span># If the tunnel is not up, create the tunnel</span><br />  <span>if [ -z &#8220;$CHECK_TUNNEL&#8221; ] ; then</span><br />  <span>   $COMMAND</span><br />  <span>fi</span> 
     896</p>                    </div> 
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     898                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=225">07 September, 2006 02:57 PM</a> 
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     908<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=224">IE Colo{u}rs</a></h4> 
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     911<p>Apparently, Internet Explorer is so entirely set in its ways that it will even insist on American spellings&#8230;.</p> 
     912<p>Sure, most browsers need Colour to be spelt &#8216;Color&#8217;..but..</p> 
     913<p>Actually, do you know what, I&#8217;m turning this into a rant about American spelling.</p> 
     914<p>But first; If you have issues with CSS where IE fails to colour text properly, it may well be because you spelt something wrong. Namely, &#8216;grey&#8217; != &#8216;gray&#8217;.</p> 
     915<p>Every other browser seems to recognise that &#8216;grey&#8217; is the same colour as &#8216;gray&#8217;, except IE, so if you are using grey as a colour; dont - use gray as a color.</p> 
     916<p>Anyway - American spelling. It&#8217;s just rude.</p> 
     917<p>That is all. 
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     920                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=224">07 September, 2006 12:11 PM</a> 
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     936                <h3><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/" title="Andrew Price's Blog">Andrew Price (welshbyte)</a></h3> 
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     941<h4><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/andy--ubuntu-membership">Andy += Ubuntu Membership</a></h4> 
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     944<p>It&#8217;s my birthday soon and what a great birthday gift I have been awarded - Ubuntu membership. I&#8217;d like to thank all the people who came to the Community Council meeting and put in a good word for me. I&#8217;ll try not to let it go to my head.</p> 
     945<p>Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me I have bugs to triage and packages to wrestle with :)</p><p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/andy--ubuntu-membership">Link</a>]</p>                     </div> 
     946                        <p class="date"> 
     947                        <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/andy--ubuntu-membership">06 September, 2006 11:21 AM</a> 
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     968<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/two-hospitals-in-one-morning">Two hospitals in one morning</a></h4> 
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     972                <p>I had an appointment at Barts Hospital at 12:30 today for a DEXA scan, so I had to leave home an hour earlier to make time for my weekly Renal outpatients clinic.</p><p>I turned up at the station at just after 9am to discover that not only had the train timetable been put out by a broken-down train earlier in the morning, but the ticket system wasn't working either. I therefore had to buy a permit to travel and then get a ticket for the underground at Stratford.</p><p>Stratford only has ticket machines operating during the day, so I wasn't able to get the right ticket to take advantage of my rail card. Sigh.</p><p>Still, I got to the Royal London in time and saw Dr Raftery. He was pleased with last week's blood results and decided that the frusemide had been responsible for an increase in creatinine (something <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/creatinine-up-a-lot">I'd said</a> a couple of weeks ago and he'd rejected at the time) and so changed my blood pressure medication to avoid putting me back on it. Apparently, amlodipine is known for causing fluid retention. Dr Raftery had also said that were it not for the borderline rejection, I'd be having clinics once every two weeks at Southend instead of London by now. Because of the rejection, they want to keep a close eye on me for now, but it should only be a couple more weeks.</p><p>After seeing the doctor, I had my blood test then went back to Whitechapel station. I found the train I needed and got on, and it just sat there. Then an announcement on the tannoy about needing to get the next train then change at Aldgate East convinced me that this train would be sitting there for a long time, so I changed platforms only to see that train leave as I came down the steps. :-( So I had no choice but to wait for the next train and change as they suggested.</p><p>I arrived at Barts with time to spare, which was good, because it's hideous to find your way around. Not only is it the usual hospitally maze I've come to expect, it's in central London and they seem to be knocking half of it down and rebuilding it. Consequently, I ended up at an entrance that I couldn't get into and had to go all the way back round to get in.</p><p>Then I waited for a lift that didn't want to turn up, but having decided to climb the stairs, I caught up with the lift on the 2nd floor and took it the rest of the way up. The wait for the scan wasn't a long one (and I had more of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0552131075">Sourcery</a> to read in any case). I still haven't figured out what the scan is for or how it works. Some googling should answer that though, I imagine... <a href="http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/27000476/"><em>...and indeed it has.</em></a><br /> </p><p>Once the scan was finished, I went to find food at the <a href="http://www.apium.co.uk/">Apium noodle bar</a>. I had Chicken Noodle Soup and was rather pleased that I managed to eat the whole thing (and there was quite a lot of it) with just chop sticks and the ladley spoon thing they provided. So I can now claim to have eaten soup with chop sticks. :-) </p><p>After lunch, I walked to parliament, <a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/gallery/London">taking photos on the way</a>. </p> 
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     974                        <p class="date"> 
     975                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/two-hospitals-in-one-morning">05 September, 2006 11:26 PM</a> 
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     1000                <p>Right, one down, one to go.  Today's interview was pretty uneventful, got my qualifications photocopied, gave my presentation, answered some questions, asked some questions, got a tour, left.  Think it went well.  Don't know when I'll hear, but I'm not too worried.  There were 5 candidates in total (I think) and it turns out I actually knew one of the other applicants - though we didn't meet I recognised his name on the visitor list.  I hope he gets it.  :)</p><p>Popped into Glamorgan uni on the drive home to deliver a small present to one of my referees - not just to sweeten him up on the job application process but also for his help over the last couple of years.</p><p>So, tomorrow, 300 mile round trip.  Oh, I wish I had GPS...  (This is one interview I really *really* don't want to turn up late for)  At least I'm in the RAC.</p> 
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     1028                <p>Ok, so this week isn't quite as manic as it might have been, but it's plenty manic enough.</p><p>I've just printed off a new draft thesis for Chen to read whilst he's abroad, it's going to come back covered in lots of red pen.  Still, over the weekend I managed to get some good jologging done - I'm still not entirely sure how the code is working but it's giving me the right answers so I won't moan about it too much.  If I can't understand it, what hope have my external examiners got?</p><p>Tomorrow I have my academic job interview, and Wednesday I have another non-academic interview which is a 3 hours drive away (300 mile round trip, great!).  So not much going to be happening PhD-wise on either day there.  My other interview in London has now been scheduled for early next Monday, which I suspect will be my last interview in the current set.  Assuming of course that one of htem wants to offer me a job.  They might all decide I'm rubbish.  </p><p>But anyway, before that I have to get these other two interviews out the way.  The practice presentation seemed to go ok Friday when I delivered it to the other postgrads so I'll just go over it a few times tonight and make prompt cards.  Sigh.  Simple.  </p> 
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     1031                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/these-are-the-days-of-miracle-and-wonder">04 September, 2006 05:15 PM</a> 
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     1052<h4><a href="http://elsmorian.livejournal.com/4041.html">(Bassets) Allsorts</a></h4> 
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     1055Helloes! <br /><br />Last few days have been a lot of fun; dressing up, lots of gatherings / going into Reading, and finishing work - I am no longer a Numark/Alesis/Akai employee! It feels good, no more early mornings until (hopefully) Christmas, and no more trying to get my bike on rather packed trains. I will miss the people there though, they were a great bunch and the work itself was pretty cool. Fixing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai">Jamiroquai</a>'s synths and setting up some more for collection by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/DC">AC/DC</a> is not bad for a summer job! Going to Thorpe Park with Andy and people from work was a great way to finish it off though, it being paid for by work :)<br /><br />I went on most of the big rides, <a href="http://www.thorpepark.com/explore_the_park/samurai/samurai.asp?css=2">Samurai</a>, <a href="http://www.thorpepark.com/explore_the_park/colossus/colossus.asp?css=2">Colossus</a>, <a href="http://www.thorpepark.com/explore_the_park/nemesis_inferno/nemesis_inferno.asp?css=2">Nemisis Inferno</a>, and of course <a href="http://www.thorpepark.com/explore_the_park/stealth/stealth.asp?css=2">Stealth</a>. 0-80mph in 2.3secs and 205ft in the air never felt so good :-D A combination of Vortex and X:\ No Way Out made me rather ill, but that was fixed with Pizza Hut buffet, and Pirates 4D was also a lot of fun!<br /><br />Today I did nothing, it was nice to laze around a bit. I found a few interesting things on t'Internet that are worth a look:<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevators">Space Elevators</a>, which I hadn't heard of but seem a rather funky idea.<br /><br /><a href="http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/">Google Image Labeler</a> is also rather fun, and is probably the most fun I've ever had labeling images :)<br /><br />And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsmore%2C_Kansas">Kansas</a> is obviously my homeland!<br /><br />Yay for linking everything :-)<br /><br />Oohh I also ordered a <a href="http://www.apple.com/uk/macbook/macbook.html">Macbook</a>, as they are truely awesome. I got the lowest spec model but got a Gig of RAM, and am waiting for it to hurry up an arrive! It will be my first non-home built PC I realised which is a bit weird but means I have a warantee if anything goes wrong, something I have yet to have! PLus it was a great price thanks to apples student discount scheme, and is well under anything else I could find Dell, Acer etc. Plus I wanna play with <a href="http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/tiger/">OSX</a>!<br /><br />I am also still Ripping CDs to <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/">Flac</a> files at the moment, I had some trouble as GRip puts ID3 tags in them and they should use flac tags instead. However a bit of<br /><br />" find . -type f -exec eyeD3 --remove-all \{\} \; "<br /><br />took them all out, and I found a Flac encoding line to put teh artist information etc inside the right tags, namely:<br /><br />" -V -o %m -T TITLE="%n" -T ARTIST="%a" -T ALBUM="%d" -T DATE="%y" -T TRACKNUMBER="%t" -T GENRE="%G" %w "<br /><br />After all that its easy to see why people are rather intimidated by <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">linux</a> really, but it is powerful, and for making bit-for-bit CD Rips its my choice!<br /><br />I'm looking forward to Thursday, going to <a href="http://www.alton-towers.co.uk/themepark/">Alton Towers</a>, Friday going to Thorpe Park again, and Saturday I be off on the boat holiday which should be good. Then on the 18th I head off back to Uni! It will be great to see all of my uni mates again, Ive missed them over the summer, but also had a fantastic time back at home with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokingham">Wokingham</a> mates! Having a good job has also really helped, plus a bit of planning ahead last summer meant I didnt have no money this time! Thank you Andy for Numarking me up! And hopefully I'll return to uni with enough cash to get a Wii when they come out in November. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00t">W00T</a>!<br /><br />That's about it. Wikipedia FTW!                  </div> 
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     1073                <h3><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/" title="Andrew Price's Blog">Andrew Price (welshbyte)</a></h3> 
     1074        </div> 
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     1076                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/welshbyte.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1078<h4><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/softly-softly-catchy-snakey">Softly, Softly, Catchy Snakey</a></h4> 
     1079                <div class="entry"> 
     1080                        <div> 
     1081<p>Admittedly, my progress on pyBackPack has been somewhat slow to materialise. I have two main excuses:</p> 
     1082<ol> 
     1083<li>I want to be careful to avoid turning pyBackPack into a horrible mess of code that is unmaintainable in the future. This involves learning the existing code and the interfaces to the libraries it uses so that I know all of its intricacies before I make any drastic changes to it. It also involves looking at other (good) python projects and absorbing clue from how they&#8217;re structured;</li> 
     1084<li>I&#8217;ve been looking into some limitations of the libraries that pyBackPack uses which might effect its usefulness quite drastically unless some big changes are made. Luckily the limitations don&#8217;t seem to be as threatening as I had first feared and one of them will certainly be fixed for the next release.</li> 
     1085</ol> 
     1086<p>That said, I <em>have</em> done some work tinkering with pyBackPack&#8217;s trac and subversion repository. The repository is now organised into the traditional trunk/tags/branches structure which will allow me (and any other contributors that might come along in the future) to do some experimental work without worrying about screwing up the main trunk of development. I have also scoured the tickets in the trac and reassigned them all to me, closed ones which didn&#8217;t apply any more and asked for more feedback on some of the more ambiguous ones. Oh, and deleted comment spam (sigh).</p> 
     1087<p>I must remember to figure out what revision Dave released as version 0.4.2 so I can tag it. There will certainly be some compatibility issues with the next release due to the nautilusburn API being a moving target and I&#8217;m keen to avoid falling behind with the latest developments in nautilusburn, rdiff-backup, glade, etc.</p> 
     1088<p>Speaking of releases, I&#8217;m open to suggestions for a release strategy. I know the old saying goes &quot;Release early, release often&quot; so I&#8217;ll probably use that as a guideline.</p><p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/softly-softly-catchy-snakey">Link</a>]</p>                     </div> 
     1089                        <p class="date"> 
     1090                        <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/softly-softly-catchy-snakey">03 September, 2006 05:52 PM</a> 
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     1106                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3> 
     1107        </div> 
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     1109                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1111<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/fixing-the-image-map-for-ie">Fixing the image map for IE</a></h4> 
     1112                <div class="entry"> 
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     1114<div> 
     1115                <p>Having looked more closely at what happens in Internet Explorer with the <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/css-image-map">CSS Image Map</a>, I realised that the problem is Internet Explorer's stupid image toolbar. When you hover over an image in IE, a toolbar appears, thus:</p><p><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/imagetoolbar.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Toolbar" width="120" height="85" /></p><p>Spectacularly, this actually takes precedence over any links that have been placed on the image using CSS, preventing them from being clickable or indeed hoverable. Having realised this, it was a simple matter to display the image as a background to the containing <em>&lt;div&gt;</em> instead of in an <em>&lt;img /&gt;</em> tag.</p><p>Now I just need to find a better way of hiding the text than <em>text-intent: -1000em;</em> because doing that results in the selection area for the link disappearing off the left side of the screen.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> I have now implemented this - it was just a case of surrounding the text with a <em><span></span></em> and setting it to <em>display: none;</em>. I've also told it to show the borders when the image is hovered over, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">flickr</a>-style. Of course, IE6 is stupid and doesn't take any notice of :hover on non-links, but I've decided that that's just tough for IE6 users. :-) It <strong>does</strong> work in IE7.</p> 
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     1117                        <p class="date"> 
     1118                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/fixing-the-image-map-for-ie">03 September, 2006 10:42 AM</a> 
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     1134                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3> 
     1135        </div> 
     1136        <div class="boxcontent"> 
     1137                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1139<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/css-image-map">CSS Image Map</a></h4> 
     1140                <div class="entry"> 
     1141                        <div> 
     1142<div> 
     1143                <p>I got round to tidying my desk today and once it was in order, took some photos of it, demonstrating my three display setup, all controlled from the one keyboard and mouse courtesy of <a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/">synergy</a>.</p><p>I then thought about how to label the photo and remembered something I'd seen in <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1590596145">CSS Mastery</a>, so gave that a go. I'm quite pleased with the results, which can be seen on <a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/desk/">my SUCS website</a>. However, I discovered after finishing it that it doesn't work in Internet Explorer (either 6 <em>or</em> 7), which is rather disappointing. I thought perhaps I'd done something wrong so checked the example code from the book and found that that doesn't work in IE either. The remote rollovers version does, so perhaps I'll switch to that.</p><p><a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/desk/"><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/mydesk.jpg" border="0" alt="My Desk" width="550" height="205" /></a></p> 
     1144                </div>                  </div> 
     1145                        <p class="date"> 
     1146                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/css-image-map">02 September, 2006 10:45 PM</a> 
     1147                        </p> 
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     1162                <h3><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress" title="Tobeon.co.uk">Tom Bradley (tobeon)</a></h3> 
     1163        </div> 
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     1165                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/tobeon.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1167<h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=484">Three Weeks to go</a></h4> 
     1168                <div class="entry"> 
     1169                        <div> 
     1170<p>Thats rightm, I have three more weeks of work (ugh!) then back to Swansea, I really can&#8217;t wait (12 hour days are starting to wear(sp?) me down!) On the plus side though my overdraft is now down to 400 pound which with any luck should be gone within 2 weeks! Yay!</p> 
     1171<p>I am waiting for my new PSU to arrive, in the mean time I have put FirefoxPortable on my new USB stick and installed that amazing extensition goolge browsersync! Yay! so I now have access tooall my favourites history etc which is good <img src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> 
     1172<p>Oh yes I have registered the name thomasoliverbradley.co.uk (aswell as stuartbradley.co.uk and lydiabradley.co.uk for my parents!) so I now have a nice repsectable email address that I can give out without having to explain &#8220;why tobeon?&#8221;</p> 
     1173<p>I have also set up all my emails to go through gmail been thinking about doing it for awhile but decided to do it when I had a particularly hard time going through backup DVDs to try to find the dbx file that had a particularl email I wanted. So now I will (in theroy) always beable to find the email I want!</p> 
     1174<p>gir (AT) invaderzim.co.uk</p> 
     1175<p>email (AT) thomasoliverbradley.co.uk -- or emails, sales, info, contact, tom etc *grin*</p> 
     1176<p>contact (AT) tobeon.co.uk</p> 
     1177<p>tobeon (AT) <a href="http://gmail.com" title="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></p> 
     1178<p>contact (AT) 13.7designs.co.uk -- or sales, info etc<br /> 
     1179look at all my pretty email addresses! Now all nicely organised via the joy of gmail.</p> 
     1180<p>Anyways I am going to go enjoy my day off by going to the cinema and then eat some curry! (it is my first day off in 2 weeks) as I am not going to have annother day off for annother two weeks! 
     1181</p>                    </div> 
     1182                        <p class="date"> 
     1183                        <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=484">02 September, 2006 04:00 PM</a> 
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     1199                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3> 
     1200        </div> 
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     1202                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1204<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/thursday-in-maidstone">Thursday in Maidstone</a></h4> 
     1205                <div class="entry"> 
     1206                        <div> 
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     1208                <p>Went down to my sister's new house in Maidstone with my dad and brother to help her and her boyfriend continue decorating.</p><p>Since I last went, they've finished decorating the master bedroom and sanded and varnished three floors - their bedroom, the dining room and the lounge.</p><p>Graham spent the day wrestling more wallpaper off the dining room walls and I played at being a cable engineer. Rather than send an engineer out, Telewest are now running a scheme whereby they send you a set-top box and a cablemodem via Parcelfarce and leave you to set them up. It wasn't hard - it was just slightly annoying that I had to phone them up and read them a great long list of serial numbers off the hardware to get it all activated.</p><p>Once I had TV and Internet access working, I moved to the hall and attacked the mass of extraneous cables running wild across the floor. Careful detective work revealed which of these were phone extensions, all of which were surplus to requirements and so I removed them. I was then able to send the remaining cabling under the floorboards leaving the hallway cable-free and the skirting boards around the house rather lighter on pointless phone sockets.</p><p>There's still a bit more work to be done on the Internet front because I've discovered that the wireless signal doesn't make it from the lounge (where the Telewest cable point is) to the office (where the computer is). I suspect I will need to wall-mount the wireless router somewhere high up and run the Telewest-supplied gargantuan CAT5 cable through ducting to it.<br /></p> 
     1209                </div>                  </div> 
     1210                        <p class="date"> 
     1211                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/thursday-in-maidstone">31 August, 2006 10:14 PM</a> 
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     1227                <h3><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/" title="thebearsarecoming.co.uk">James Frost (frosty)</a></h3> 
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     1230                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/frosty.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1232<h4><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/31/birdy/">Birdy</a></h4> 
     1233                <div class="entry"> 
     1234                        <div> 
     1235<p>My newest form of procrastination is making animations! I&#8217;ve been playing about all afternoon with a whiteboard, a webcam and <a href="http://giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/" title="Monkey Jam">Monkey Jam</a>, a Windows app for making stop motion videos. A similar, and better-looking (but not free) alternative on OS X is <a href="http://www.istopmotion.com/" title="iStopMotion">iStopMotion</a>. I recorded the video with MonkeyJam because my external webcam doesn&#8217;t work with a Mac (it&#8217;s the EyeToy camera from my PS2!) and then edited and added music in iMovie on my MacBook. A whiteboard is a cool way of doing it, because you only have to redraw little bits, and not the whole image. Anyway, enjoy.</p> 
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     1238<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSoSxsTsI4Y" title="Birdy on YouTube">&#8216;Birdy&#8217; on YouTube</a></p>                    </div> 
     1239                        <p class="date"> 
     1240                        <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/31/birdy/">31 August, 2006 06:57 PM</a> 
     1241                        </p> 
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     1256                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3> 
     1257        </div> 
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     1259                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/jo.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1261<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/are-you-absolutely-sure-sir">Are you absolutely sure sir?*</a></h4> 
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     1265                <p>Only a quick entry today (honest!) as a few things are still unconfirmed, and I'm running round like a headless chicken but...  It looks like next week I have 3 job interviews in 3 different cities.  At least one of them seems very keen, and I am probably very keen on one of them, although not neccessarily the same one.  I'm still waiting for confirmation of the Monday one, but as that's now the only day I can do next week (and as they know I have other interviews), I get the feeling they might want to speed up my application process.   </p><p>Let the bidding wars begin! :) </p><p> *(It does mean we have to change the lightbulb)</p> 
     1266                </div>                  </div> 
     1267                        <p class="date"> 
     1268                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/are-you-absolutely-sure-sir">31 August, 2006 04:36 PM</a> 
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     1284                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/" title="Rolling Along..">Chris Jones (rollercow)</a></h3> 
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     1287                <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/rollercow.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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     1289<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/entry/cock-smellie-daft-and-shufflebottom">Cock, Smellie, Daft and Shufflebottom?</a></h4> 
     1290                <div class="entry"> 
     1291                        <div> 
     1292<p>From <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5301032.stm">BBC News</a>...&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Surnames including Cock, Smellie, Daft and Shufflebottom have been dumped by people since 1881, compared with figures in 1998.&quot;</p><p>I wonder why?  </p>                    </div> 
     1293                        <p class="date"> 
     1294                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/entry/cock-smellie-daft-and-shufflebottom">31 August, 2006 10:45 AM</a> 
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    121315<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/do-your-thing-honey">Do your thing, honey</a></h4> 
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    151319                <p>Hurrah and other joyous salutations.</p><p>I've had a rubbish weekend.  I spent a ridiculous amount of money on a new suit (and a few other things) and still my head was completely filled with PhD stress and ridiculously-long-application-form stress.  But, that aside, now I am in a good mood.  Why, you ask?  Keep reading says I.</p><p>The interview on Friday went pretty well.  I had some trouble on the train (the wheels got too hot or something and so we sat in the middle of nowhere for 30 minutes whilst they were all individually checked) and had quite a trek across paddington station to get to the city line.  But I made it to my interview with 10 minutes or so to spare, checked myself into security and deposited myself in the designated conference room.</p><p>One thing that struck me as I sat there, was that you know a company makes lots of money when they provide their own branded mineral water, tea and coffee for interview refreshments.  Scary branding aside, the interview went well (or as well as can be expected when the first thing you see in the interviewee's hands is a printout of everything on the internet that you've ever been mentioned on).  I always find it hard to tell whether or not an interview did go well, unless of course you do something like walking in and throwing up over your prospective employer.  But yes, it seemed ok and was only an hour long, so I managed to get an earlier train back to Swansea.  The London-Swansea commute is not one I'd recommend doing on a daily basis.</p><p>Now I've just had a phone call to say that I was correct in my judgement and they did really like me, and would definitely be calling me back for a second interview.  Hurrah!  That new suit I bought at the weekend will go to good use (you can't go for a 2nd interview wearing them same thing as before, terribly bad form!).  Maybe I'll also be able to incorporate an overnight stay in London to catch up with various people.  I don't know what day it'll be yet, but I have my academic institution interview next Tuesday, so it looks like next week will be another manic week.  Shouldn't complain whilst things are going well.  Just need more hours in the day!</p> 
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    17 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/do-your-thing-honey">29 August, 2006 06:16 PM</a> 
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    27 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/" title="thebearsarecoming.co.uk">James Frost (frosty)</a></h3></div> 
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    331343<h4><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/29/aztec-hot-chocolate/">Aztec Hot Chocolate</a></h4> 
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    35 <p>Here’s a quick recipe for you, now the evenings are starting to draw in, and it’s getting cooler and rainier outside.</p> 
    36 <p>I use <a href="http://www.greenandblacks.com/uk/productdetails.php?pageid=27&amp;cid=5&amp;pid=36" title="Instant Hot Chocolate, at greenandblacks.com">Green &amp; Blacks instant hot chocolate</a> to make this, but I guess you can use whatever you like best. I’d recommend using one that’s fairly high in actual chocolate, though, and not too sweetened or milky.</p> 
    37 <p>Heat up some milk in a pan - keep stirring and keep an eye on it, otherwise it’s likely to boil over or burn to the pan. Put however much hot chocolate you’re supposed to into your mug, along with <em>half a teaspoon of cinnamon</em> and <em>a pinch of hot chili powder</em> (you may have to adjust this to suit your tastes). Pour in the warm milk, stirring constantly. Then sit back, and drink. Mmmmmm

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    38 <p>Nice as an occasional alternative to normal hot chocolate.</p><p class="date"> 
    39 <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/29/aztec-hot-chocolate/">by frosty at 29 August, 2006 04:21 PM</a> 
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     1346<p>Here&#8217;s a quick recipe for you, now the evenings are starting to draw in, and it&#8217;s getting cooler and rainier outside.</p> 
     1347 
     1348<p>I use <a href="http://www.greenandblacks.com/uk/productdetails.php?pageid=27&amp;cid=5&amp;pid=36" title="Instant Hot Chocolate, at greenandblacks.com">Green &amp; Blacks instant hot chocolate</a> to make this, but I guess you can use whatever you like best. I&#8217;d recommend using one that&#8217;s fairly high in actual chocolate, though, and not too sweetened or milky.</p> 
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     1350<p>Heat up some milk in a pan - keep stirring and keep an eye on it, otherwise it&#8217;s likely to boil over or burn to the pan. Put however much hot chocolate you&#8217;re supposed to into your mug, along with <em>half a teaspoon of cinnamon</em> and <em>a pinch of hot chili powder</em> (you may have to adjust this to suit your tastes). Pour in the warm milk, stirring constantly. Then sit back, and drink. Mmmmmm&#8230;&#8230;</p> 
     1351 
     1352<p>Nice as an occasional alternative to normal hot chocolate.</p>                       </div> 
     1353                        <p class="date"> 
     1354                        <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/29/aztec-hot-chocolate/">29 August, 2006 04:21 PM</a> 
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    481364<h4><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/29/being-arty/">Being arty</a></h4> 
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    50 <p>Me and Hannah have been being arty, and have painted a painting to go on the wall of my bedroom in our house in Swansea that we’ll be moving into shortly. We took a photo of ourselves with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_Booth" title="Photo Booth on Wikipedia">Photo Booth</a>:</p> 
    51 <div class="c1"><img src="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/photos/20060829_photobooth.jpg" alt="An Andy Warhol style picture of James and Hannah, created with Photobooth" title="An Andy Warhol style picture of James and Hannah, created with Photobooth" /></div> 
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     1367<p>Me and Hannah have been being arty, and have painted a painting to go on the wall of my bedroom in our house in Swansea that we&#8217;ll be moving into shortly. We took a photo of ourselves with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_Booth" title="Photo Booth on Wikipedia">Photo Booth</a>:</p> 
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     1369<p><center><img src="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/photos/20060829_photobooth.jpg" alt="An Andy Warhol style picture of James and Hannah, created with Photobooth" title="An Andy Warhol style picture of James and Hannah, created with Photobooth" /></center></p> 
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    521371<p>and then painstakingly recreated it using acrylic paints on canvas. With our bare hands and everything. And I think it looks rather snazzy:</p> 
    53 <div class="c1"><img src="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/photos/20060829_painting.jpg" alt="An Andy Warhol style picture of James and Hannah, painted by James and Hannah!" title="An Andy Warhol style picture of James and Hannah, painted by James and Hannah!" /></div><p class="date"> 
    54 <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/29/being-arty/">by frosty at 29 August, 2006 11:59 AM</a> 
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    64 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
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     1374                        <p class="date"> 
     1375                        <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/29/being-arty/">29 August, 2006 11:59 AM</a> 
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    701396<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/waste-of-time-it-may-be-but">Waste of time it may be but...</a></h4> 
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    731400                <p>...my creatinine was 136 - I phoned Paulin Ward at about 9pm to ask.</p> <p>Here's the new creatinine graph - I've moved the starting point to when I stopped dialysing so more detail is visible.</p> <p><a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/renal/creatinine20060828.gif"><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/renal/creatinine20060828s.gif" border="0" /></a></p> 
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    75 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/waste-of-time-it-may-be-but">29 August, 2006 12:21 AM</a> 
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    86 <h2>August 28, 2006</h2> 
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    89 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
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     1403                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/waste-of-time-it-may-be-but">29 August, 2006 12:21 AM</a> 
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    981428                <p>So, as I said <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/hello-planet">on Saturday</a>, I had to go up to the hospital today to have a blood test done. I'd got so engrossed in <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/photos-of-me">my photos</a> that I ended up leaving just after 11am. This wasn't good because I'm supposed to take my cyclosporin at 11 but can't take it before a blood test.</p><p>I got to the <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Southend&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=18&amp;ll=51.544797,0.709251&amp;spn=0.002122,0.006362&amp;t=k&amp;om=1">Civic Centre</a> before realising that I'd left my railcard at home, so I started walking back and phoned my mum, who found the card and got my dad to cycle to meet me. I then dashed back towards Southend Vic (being a bank holiday, Prittlewell was closed) and when I got back to the Civic Centre, it decided to start raining. By the time I reached the <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Southend&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=18&amp;ll=51.542345,0.710689&amp;spn=0.002122,0.006362&amp;t=k&amp;iwloc=A">library</a>, it was quite heavy, but I dashed into the station, bought my ticket and got onto the platform just in time to see the lights go out on the side of the train and the doors close. :-(</p><p>Fortunately though, the next train was already waiting on the other side of the platform, so I got on it and logged onto <a href="http://sucs.org/services/milliways.php">Milliways</a> to while away the half hour before it left. During the journey, I managed to wade through all my spam in pine via <a href="http://www.sealiesoftware.com/pssh/">pssh</a> and flush my mailman queues in links, discovering while I did that between them, pssh and links allow me to click on items in links with the stylus, which is handy when navigating mailman's radio button-filled post approval pages.</p><p>I arrived at <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=whitechapel&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.518317,-0.060189&amp;spn=0.004246,0.009227&amp;t=h&amp;om=1">the hospital</a> at about 12:30 and went up to Paulin Ward. It appears they hadn't been expecting me, but the sister went to let the doctors know that I was there and needed bloods taken. They were on their ward round (on Devonshire, I presume) and would apparently be a little while, so I went across the road to the newsagents that does sandwiches for 99p and got my lunch. I returned and started reading <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0552131075">Sourcery</a> while eating my cheese sandwich. </p><p>An hour later, I was still waiting for my bloods to be taken, so I went to speak to the sister and pointed out that I still hadn't taken my cyclosporin because I was waiting for a blood test. She phoned round to find someone qualified to take blood and eventually one of the CAPD nurses turned up to do it.</p><p>I then went home, feeling rather annoyed that I had had to waste so much time. As I was getting onto the train at Whitechapel station, I thought to myself &quot;I don't do this for the good of my health, you know&quot; and then immediately realised... :-)</p><p>Still, there is no reason I can see that I couldn't have had those bloods taken either at clinic tomorrow (which I'm now not going to go to, on the basis that they only really want me there to take bloods) or at the renal unit in Southend. </p> 
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    100 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/a-waste-of-time">28 August, 2006 10:14 PM</a> 
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     1431                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/a-waste-of-time">28 August, 2006 10:14 PM</a> 
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    1111444<div> 
    1121445                Having seen my hackergotchi on <a href="http://sucs.org/planet">Planet</a>, pklong commented that he didn't recognise me and I started looking for older photos of myself. I've succeeded in this, as you can see in the <a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/gallery/Dez">Gallery of Dez</a>! 
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    114 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/photos-of-me">28 August, 2006 10:42 AM</a> 
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    128 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3></div> 
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     1448                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/photos-of-me">28 August, 2006 10:42 AM</a> 
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    1341469<h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=223">Synk</a></h4> 
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    1361472<p>Just come across <a target="_blank" href="http://www.decimus.net/synk/index.html">Synk</a> in my search for an rsync GUI tool for MacOS X - not sure if it uses rsync (fairly sure it doesnt) but it works nicely with an smb mount.</p> 
    1371473<p>You can preview the transfer before it happens, and it does backup or synch.</p> 
    1381474<p>Looks rather nifty and the chap who writes it seems to have some decent thoughts on fairness of sale and things (like if you are a student you can name your own price, and bounties for pirated codes!)</p> 
    139 <p>Chekc it out if you are a Maccy who doesnt want to use the CLI to bcakup.</p><p class="date"> 
    140 <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=223">by steve at 27 August, 2006 12:12 PM</a> 
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    151 <h2>August 26, 2006</h2> 
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    154 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/" title="Der Blog">Peter Berry (pwb)</a></h3></div> 
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     1475<p>Chekc it out if you are a Maccy who doesnt want to use the CLI to bcakup. 
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     1478                        <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=223">27 August, 2006 12:12 PM</a> 
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    1631503                <p>In the rant attached to the <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=695" title="Questionable Content strip 695">last QC</a>, in which the mysophobic Hannelore buys a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roomba">Roomba</a>, the cartoonist says &quot;Truly we are living in the future.&quot;</p><p>I know it's becoming something of a cliché these days to say that (not to mention being semantically dubious), but it did make me realise: not only do we now have things comparable to <a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/PADD">PADD</a>s, <a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Tricorder">tricorder</a>s and <a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Communicator">communicator</a>s from <em>Star Trek</em> (PDAs and mobile phones), all of which seemed terribly futuristic at the time, we are improving on them by merging their functions (smart phones). But the robotic hoover seems the clincher to me, considering it's one of the many tiny details in <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex">Deus Ex</a></em> which gives the game a &quot;futuristic&quot; atmosphere. </p><p>Ironically, the one technology that is arguably most characteristic of the &quot;futuristic&quot; era, the most socially and politically disruptive technology ever, is the one thing the sci-fi authors never predicted, at least in the form it now takes.  </p><p>(Footnote: Of course, if anyone can point me towards an SF author predicting the international, egalitarian, democratic Web in a similar form to what we have now — not to mention the FLOSS movement, which I consider an integral part of the whole thing — I'll happily retract that statement. Note to self: read some William Gibson.)</p> 
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    165 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/living-in-the-future">26 August, 2006 01:20 AM</a> 
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    1841531                <p>Thanks to chckens, my inane blatherings are now reaching (what might possibly be) a (slightly) wider audience on <a href="http://sucs.org/planet/">Planet SUCS</a>. I ought to do a better hackergotchi, but I don't have any recent photos of myself and the ones my sister just took for me make me look like I haven't slept for about a week.</p><p>Actually, I feel like that too atm. I've been working hard all week on the new SUCS website, which is now coming together nicely.</p><p>I had clinic this morning. There was no-one in the waiting room at all when I arrived, but then the consultants aren't in on a Friday because that's when they do their weekly ward round - it's just the nurses. Dan phoned me this afternoon to ask me to go back again on Monday for a blood test. Only coz it's a bank holiday, I'll have to go to Paulin Ward to have it done and I'll have to go from Southend Victoria instead of Prittlewell. Sigh.</p><p> After Tuesday's stunning low of 153, today's creatinine was a bit of a disappointment - 176. Still, I shouldn't really be worried - anything below 200 is pretty reasonable. Vicki mentioned the possibility of changing from Cyclosporin to some other antirejection drug, but I've forgotten its name. I do know she said it had different side effects though, which is good - my ears are starting to get rather furry.<br /></p><p>My dad's started spending the money from his pension lump sum today (he got it early on health grounds) by buying a new bike for my mum. It's a Dawes 701 which is the fancier version of mine (a 501) with carbon forks and stuff. He's now trying to decide on another bike for himself. </p> 
    185                 </div><p class="date"> 
    186 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/hello-planet">26 August, 2006 12:00 AM</a> 
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    197 <h2>August 24, 2006</h2> 
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    200 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3></div> 
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     1534                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/hello-planet">26 August, 2006 12:00 AM</a> 
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     1550                <h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3> 
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    2061555<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/is-it-any-wonder-im-tired">Is it any wonder I'm tired?</a></h4> 
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    2091559                <p>Yo!  Just a quick update today before I slink off home.  I've got a few things I want to organise for my interview in London tomorrow (very excited now) plus I need to grab a couple of hours sleep as I'm being taken out for dinner, along with <a href="http://pingwales.com">Bash</a> by a business associate that we met at the <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/ha-ha-take-that-you-stupid-monkey">B2B exhibition</a>.  I am hoping he won't want me to stand by the table giving out oranges and also that I can get home at a sensible hour.</p><p>So, early start tomorrow.  Was going to stay in London the night with some friends and come back Saturday, but I found out today that starting Saturday morning the train service between Swindon and Bristol is replaced by buses.  I don't much fancy that, so I'm going to try and do it all in one day.  Fingers crossed I make all my connections...</p><p>I also had a phone call today from a friend in the field of forensics who has been keeping an eye out for potential jobs for me.  So more CV sending off and finger crossing.  Funniest thing is, the company its with occupies the offices the floor below my current consultancy job in London.  With my interview tomorrow being just 5 minutes round the corner for them both, I'm beginning to think that it is indeed a small world after all! ;)</p><p>Anyhew, gotta run.  Wish me luck, and have a nice weekend.</p><p>PS Testing machine crashed again.  This time apparentely my dll used up some memory space that Windows was playing with.  No idea why, but it looks like rather a terminal problem...  I'm calling my datasets fat.</p> 
    210                 </div><p class="date"> 
    211 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/is-it-any-wonder-im-tired">24 August, 2006 01:53 PM</a> 
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    221 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/" title="Thoughts of an Educated Fool">Sean Handley (talyn256)</a></h3></div> 
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     1562                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/is-it-any-wonder-im-tired">24 August, 2006 01:53 PM</a> 
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    2271583<h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/its-a-funny-old-world-xvi">It's a funny old world... XVI</a></h4> 
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    229 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5261856.stm">Mystic Dwarves</a></p> 
    230 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5264566.stm?ls">Chocolate Ordeal</a></p> 
    231 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5273706.stm">Swedish News</a></p> 
    232 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5275986.stm">Brandy Raid</a></p> 
    233 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5277090.stm">Regional Moos</a></p> 
    234 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5277238.stm">Snakes Alive!</a></p><p class="date"> 
    235 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/its-a-funny-old-world-xvi">by Sean Handley at 24 August, 2006 12:06 PM</a> 
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    246 <h2>August 23, 2006</h2> 
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    249 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
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     1586<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5261856.stm">Mystic Dwarves</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5264566.stm?ls">Chocolate Ordeal</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5273706.stm">Swedish News</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5275986.stm">Brandy Raid</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5277090.stm">Regional Moos</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5277238.stm">Snakes Alive!</a></p>                     </div> 
     1587                        <p class="date"> 
     1588                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/its-a-funny-old-world-xvi">24 August, 2006 12:06 PM</a> 
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    2581613                <p>I've just had a phone call from Vicki at the transplant clinic. My creatinine was 153 yesterday, which is great news. Slightly less great news is that they want me to go up for another blood test on Friday, but oh well.</p><p>I haven't done a creatinine graph for over a month, what with it having been rather samey for a while, but the last couple of weeks have been more interesting: </p> <p><a href="http://sucs.org/~dez/renal/creatinine20060822.gif"><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/renal/creatinine20060822s.gif" border="0" alt="Creatinine Graph for 22nd August 2006" width="550" height="341" /></a></p> 
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    260 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/another-creatinine-drop">23 August, 2006 04:32 PM</a> 
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    270 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/" title="Andrew Price's Blog">Andrew Price (welshbyte)</a></h3></div> 
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     1616                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/another-creatinine-drop">23 August, 2006 04:32 PM</a> 
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    277 <div class="entry"> 
    278 <p>It’s been a fun couple of days. I spent a lot of Monday and Tuesday doing some geeky Ubuntu-related things. Inspired by a couple of challenges from Barry deFreese on #ubuntu-motu I’ve been learning how to write man pages and roll packages for Ubuntu. So far I’ve written a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2006-August/004056.html">man page</a> for a wireless packet sniffer called prismstumbler (which I’ve never even used before). I also rolled a Ubuntu deb package of the latest version of GNU Smalltalk because the package in Debian unstable was getting a bit old and consequently, so was the one in Ubuntu.</p> 
    279 <p>Packaging GNU Smalltalk took me a while to get my head around because GNU Smalltalk uses its own package installer called gst-package <em>and</em> it uses autotools so it was hard to see where the install scripts wanted to copy files to without running a test build of the original package but it built properly in the end, with some help from the older package’s deb scripts. Not too bad for my second ever attempt at rolling a deb package (He says...). My package is now <a href="http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2927">in REVU</a>, waiting for some kind MOTUs to help me fix the inevitable packaging bugs before passing it for inclusion into the universe Ubuntu repository. It feels good to be giving something back to the open source community and learning some new useful skills.</p> 
    280 <p><strong>Update:</strong> My gnu-smalltalk package made it <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2006-August/004304.html">into the Ubuntu universe repository</a>. Rock.</p> 
    281 <p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/rocking-and-rolling">Link</a>]</p><p class="date"> 
    282 <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/rocking-and-rolling">by Andrew Price at 23 August, 2006 01:32 AM</a> 
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    293 <h2>August 22, 2006</h2> 
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    296 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
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     1640<p>It&#8217;s been a fun couple of days. I spent a lot of Monday and Tuesday doing some geeky Ubuntu-related things. Inspired by a couple of challenges from Barry deFreese on #ubuntu-motu I&#8217;ve been learning how to write man pages and roll packages for Ubuntu. So far I&#8217;ve written a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2006-August/004056.html">man page</a> for a wireless packet sniffer called prismstumbler (which I&#8217;ve never even used before). I also rolled a Ubuntu deb package of the latest version of GNU Smalltalk because the package in Debian unstable was getting a bit old and consequently, so was the one in Ubuntu.</p> 
     1641<p>Packaging GNU Smalltalk took me a while to get my head around because GNU Smalltalk uses its own package installer called gst-package <em>and</em> it uses autotools so it was hard to see where the install scripts wanted to copy files to without running a test build of the original package but it built properly in the end, with some help from the older package&#8217;s deb scripts. Not too bad for my second ever attempt at rolling a deb package (He says...). My package is now <a href="http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2927">in REVU</a>, waiting for some kind MOTUs to help me fix the inevitable packaging bugs before passing it for inclusion into the universe Ubuntu repository. It feels good to be giving something back to the open source community and learning some new useful skills.</p> 
     1642<p><strong>Update:</strong> My gnu-smalltalk package made it <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2006-August/004304.html">into the Ubuntu universe repository</a>. Rock.</p><p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/rocking-and-rolling">Link</a>]</p>                   </div> 
     1643                        <p class="date"> 
     1644                        <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/rocking-and-rolling">23 August, 2006 01:32 AM</a> 
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    3051669                <p>I'm on the train home from clinic, having had a red tape-filled morning chasing after medical certificates. I had an appointment with my GP at 9:15 where he gave me a MED3 form, signing me off for four weeks from today. He said that he couldn't backdate it to cover from 20th July to today. When I got home, I phoned the Dept for Work and Pensions, who said that the doctor needed to give me a MED5 form to cover that period. I'll have to phone the surgery when they open again this evening.</p> <p>I was seen quite quickly by the consultant today - it's funny how much the wait can vary. He told me that there wasn't really anything to worry about regarding the kidney - the increased creatinine level that had got them to call me in on Wednesday was the result of a 2% drop in kidney function. The methyl prednisolone IV they'd given me should sort that out. I'm restarting the frusemide though as I've put on some fluid (due at least in part to the IV steroids, apparently).</p> <p>My bloods were taken quickly after seeing the consultant, so I then made my way to Devonshire Ward to get a MED10 form, covering the period I was in hospital last week. I also left a message for the Renal social worker, because I want to see if I can claim my transport costs for going up to the Royal London all the time.</p> 
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    307 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/not-as-bad-as-it-seemed">22 August, 2006 10:04 PM</a> 
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     1672                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/not-as-bad-as-it-seemed">22 August, 2006 10:04 PM</a> 
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    3261697                <p>Today has been a bizarre day for several reasons.  I had a ton of work to get through, but very little has gotten done which is rather sucky.</p><p>First things first, I have another job interview in London on Friday.  This is pretty short notice, and also I've been told I'm being interviewed for some kind of senior position, not the one I actually applied for.  It's a big opportunity and good news but I can't quite appreciate it yet.</p><p>Earlier we found out that the BBC have been filming Dr Who on campus for the last couple of days.  So Will, Ben and I headed across to the library which has been transformed into a hospital set.  It was really really strange to look at.  That was fun, but a little distracting from work and alas, I there was no David Tennant there to sweep me off my feet. (Could probably fit him under my arm)</p><p>When we got back to the lab I settled into work, and then started to feel a bit strange.  I was all sorts of dizzy, so I tried various things like laying on the floor with my legs in the air and other stupid looking positions, before Will kindly offered to walk me over to the Drs.  And it was there I was diagnosed with having a panic attack.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Sorry, it seems a bit funny ot me as I'm not running around hyperventilating and I don't feel stressed so in my head it's ridiculous.  But speaking to other friends who have suffered from panic attacks before, this is certainly what's going on.  For anyone who's ever had a new pair of glasses and looked at the floor, that's what the world looks like to me atm.  I feel very dizzy, and detactched from the world like I'm in a very clever VR simulation.  I still don't feel particularly stressed though, but I'm probably in some uber stress mode where you out it all in your subconscious.  PhDs and job hunting, they're obviously all sorts of hazardous to your health!</p><p>So, that's pretty much put paid to work today.  I'm going to head home and try and chill out this evening, get a good night's sleep and then get back to work properly in the morning.  This is turning into a manic week. Calm thoughts, calm thoughts.</p> 
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    328 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/stealth-stress">22 August, 2006 04:53 PM</a> 
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    339 <h2>August 21, 2006</h2> 
    340  
    341 <div class="box"> 
    342 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress" title="Tobeon.co.uk">Tom Bradley (tobeon)</a></h3></div> 
    343 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    344 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/tobeon.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    347 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    348 <h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=483">Photo Booth</a></h4> 
    349 <div class="entry"> 
    350 <p class="c1"><a class="imagelink" title="Photo 42.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2042.jpg"><img id="image460" height="96" alt="Photo 42.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2042.thumbnail.jpg" name="image460" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 37.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2037.jpg"><img id="image455" height="96" alt="Photo 37.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2037.jpg" name="image455" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 38.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2038.jpg"><img id="image456" height="96" alt="Photo 38.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2038.thumbnail.jpg" name="image456" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 39.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2039.jpg"><img id="image457" height="96" alt="Photo 39.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2039.jpg" name="image457" /></a></p> 
    351 <p class="c1">&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 40.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2040.jpg"><img id="image458" height="96" alt="Photo 40.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2040.thumbnail.jpg" name="image458" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 41.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2041.jpg"><img id="image459" height="96" alt="Photo 41.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2041.thumbnail.jpg" name="image459" /></a> <a class="imagelink" title="Photo 43.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2043.jpg"><img id="image461" height="96" alt="Photo 43.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2043.thumbnail.jpg" name="image461" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 44.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2044.jpg"><img id="image462" height="96" alt="Photo 44.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2044.thumbnail.jpg" name="image462" /></a></p> 
    352 <p class="c1"><a class="imagelink" title="Photo 45.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2045.jpg"><img id="image463" height="96" alt="Photo 45.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2045.thumbnail.jpg" name="image463" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 47.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2047.jpg"><img id="image464" height="96" alt="Photo 47.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2047.thumbnail.jpg" name="image464" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 48.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2048.jpg"><img id="image465" height="96" alt="Photo 48.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2048.thumbnail.jpg" name="image465" /></a>&#160;<img id="image466" height="96" alt="Photo 49.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2049.thumbnail.jpg" name="image466" /></p> 
    353 <p class="c1"><a class="imagelink" title="Photo 50.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2050.jpg"><img id="image467" height="96" alt="Photo 50.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2050.thumbnail.jpg" name="image467" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 51.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2051.jpg"><img id="image468" height="96" alt="Photo 51.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2051.thumbnail.jpg" name="image468" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 52.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2052.jpg"><img id="image469" height="96" alt="Photo 52.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2052.thumbnail.jpg" name="image469" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 53.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2053.jpg"><img id="image470" height="96" alt="Photo 53.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2053.thumbnail.jpg" name="image470" /></a></p> 
    354 <p class="c1">&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 54.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2054.jpg"><img id="image471" height="96" alt="Photo 54.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2054.thumbnail.jpg" name="image471" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 541.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%20541.jpg"><img id="image472" height="96" alt="Photo 541.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%20541.thumbnail.jpg" name="image472" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 55.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2055.jpg"><img id="image473" height="96" alt="Photo 55.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2055.thumbnail.jpg" name="image473" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 56.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2056.jpg"><img id="image474" height="96" alt="Photo 56.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2056.thumbnail.jpg" name="image474" /></a></p> 
    355 <p class="c1">&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 57.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2057.jpg"><img id="image475" height="96" alt="Photo 57.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2057.thumbnail.jpg" name="image475" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 58.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2058.jpg"><img id="image476" height="96" alt="Photo 58.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2058.thumbnail.jpg" name="image476" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 59.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2059.jpg"><img id="image477" height="96" alt="Photo 59.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2059.thumbnail.jpg" name="image477" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 60.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2060.jpg"><img id="image478" height="96" alt="Photo 60.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2060.thumbnail.jpg" name="image478" /></a></p> 
    356 <p class="c1"><a class="imagelink" title="Photo 62.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2062.jpg"><img id="image480" height="96" alt="Photo 62.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2062.thumbnail.jpg" name="image480" /></a><a class="imagelink" title="Photo 61.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2061.jpg">&#160;</a><a class="imagelink" title="Photo 63.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2063.jpg"><img id="image481" height="96" alt="Photo 63.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2063.thumbnail.jpg" name="image481" /></a>&#160;<a class="imagelink" title="Photo 64.jpg" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2064.jpg"><img id="image482" height="96" alt="Photo 64.jpg" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Photo%2064.thumbnail.jpg" name="image482" /></a></p><p class="date"> 
    357 <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=483">by Tobeon at 21 August, 2006 08:38 PM</a> 
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    366 <h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=448">Storms are not your friend</a></h4> 
    367 <div class="entry"> 
    368 <p>After one particularly large lightning storm my poor computer has died, I am hoping it is only the PSU that has died, but at least it is lucky that the week before I managed to back up everything on my computer to DVD! So I now either have to go out and buy a new 350W PSU or strip one from a different computer hmmmm</p> 
    369 <p>And yes I know what you are all thinking
 you should have unplugged it, you should have used a surge protector yadda yadda yadda , I did unplug it as soon as I found out there was a storm going on (I slept through most of it) and I normally do use a surge protector but wasn’t atm because most of my stuff is still packed(ish) in my other room so I just used the first multi adapter thing I could find. I know silly</p> 
    370 <p>At least now I have managed to fix the Internet on the other computer (yay Internet!) so I can do things like <a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;ih=005&amp;item=150022457397&amp;rd=1&amp;sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&amp;rd=1">bid</a> on ebay items, <a href="http://www.urbandead.com">kill zombies</a> and write on my blog <img src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p> 
    371 <p>I got back from Swansea today, I spent the weekend in our new house (it really is aful) but never mind! I am sure it will be better when we have moved things in <img src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /></p> 
    372 <p>Oh also just in case any of you were wondering the video in the previous post was taken from the awsome program/game Klik &amp; Play it was in fact the introduction video (or at least part of it) and he was saying “game movie” <img src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p> 
    373 <p>Anyways gotta go, I hear the beeping of the oven that means dinner is ready <img src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p><p class="date"> 
    374 <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=448">by Tobeon at 21 August, 2006 05:18 PM</a> 
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    384 <div class="daygroup"> 
    385 <h2>August 20, 2006</h2> 
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    387 <div class="box"> 
    388 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://elsmorian.livejournal.com/" title="Elmo's Blog">Chris Elsmore (elsmorian)</a></h3></div> 
    389 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    390 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/elsmorian.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    394 <h4><a href="http://elsmorian.livejournal.com/3633.html">Music!</a></h4> 
    395 <div class="entry"> 
    396 Yo!<br /> 
    397 <br /> 
    398 A couple of days ago I listened to a CD, the first time I had in a long time as most of my music is on my PC in various formats. I was rather surprised at what was playing, I hadn't heard it sounding that good before- (It was a best of Enya CD, not something I regularly listen to, but she does do some great stuff). I compared it to the tracks I had on my PC, through my HiFi and headphones and there was a very large difference, mainly in the energy and overall feeling of the music. From then, I have been looking for other lossless formats to try, and FLAC is my new format of choice, compressed but still giving that CD quality. I also read up about <a href="http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/">CD paranoia</a>, a CD ripping libary for linux that promises an exact bit-for-bit rip of a CD instead of the surprising muck that normal rippers use. This is interesting as CD transports etc induce a lot of rubbish, jitter into the music, so If your CD player isnt fantastic CD paranoia will actually produce better audio than it, as it will re-read anything it isnt sure about which a normal CD player does not do. see <a href="http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html#play">here</a> for info :)<br /> 
    399 <br /> 
    400 So far the results, although slower and using more disc space have been lovely :D<br /> 
    401 My music never sounded so good! An as I'm now into so many different styles etc it makes sense to make the most of it all. So I have been busy Buying CDs etc, and enjoying them muchly. Problems arise as iTunes can't play FLACs, and even if you add a Quicktime component it still refuses to, so I have gone back to Winamp for FLACs, and am investigating other players, hopefully open-source so I can use it on XP, Linux and OSX when I get my Macbook :) I may end up Ripping both to FLAC and AAC as iTunes and iPods like AAC and its not too bad, especially for on the move music.<br /> 
    402 <br /> 
    403 I'm also looking into building some HiFi- With a bit of research it could be interesting, and the results could be rather fantastic. A DAC is first on my list.<br /> 
    404 <br /> 
    405 &lt;/geekery&gt;<br /> 
    406 <br /> 
    407 Other than this I have been working, and hanging out with friends. Snakes On A Plane was the best worst action film ever, and I really enjoyed it!<br /> 
    408 <br /> 
    409 I also really want to see A Scanner Darkly. And I'm looking forward to Ali's party, for which I am Mr Edward Scissor Hands! Got most of my costume ready, and am waiting eBay for a few items. Should be a lot of fun, I only hope I can get the Friday off work so I don't have to leave stupidly early.<br /> 
    410 <br /> 
    411 I also went to London Zoo today with my dad and sister, which was good- ages since ive been to a zoo and was interesting seeing all the animals of which they had quite a few. Was also good to see my dad again.<br /> 
    412 <br /> 
    413 Not really looking forward to work tomorrow that much, its still good but has lost a bit of its inital greatness. Still good to work with Andrew and play with expensive stuff, Though I'm glad I have some new CDs to take in as the same Dance / Trance CDs can get a bit monotonous. Rock In Rio (Iron Maiden), Images &amp; Words, Awake (Both Dream Theater), Halflife and Karmacode (Lacuna Coil) and the Best of Placebo &amp; Depeche Mode will keep me going! (Yay for Fopp :D)<br /> 
    414 <br /> 
    415 That is about it. Have a good week!<p class="date"> 
    416 <a href="http://elsmorian.livejournal.com/3633.html">20 August, 2006 09:52 PM</a> 
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    425 <div class="box"> 
    426 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/wedge/" title="Who watches the Wedgeman?">Will Blackstock (wedge)</a></h3></div> 
    427 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    428 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/wedge.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    431 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    432 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/wedge/entry/exhaustion">Exhaustion</a></h4> 
    433 <div class="entry"> 
    434 It feels like I haven't slept properly in months. I dislike having a job, but I dislike it a lot less than sitting at home trying to think of things to do. I don't even have the energy to write a proper post about five more heroes or to go back and correct some of the worse grammatical mistakes in the last one. And I need to work out what I actually want to do with my life, which isn't easy. And now I need to order course books which will eat a large chunk of my cash again, oh well, it's all for a good cause. Probably.<br /><p class="date"> 
    435 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/wedge/entry/exhaustion">by William Blackstock at 20 August, 2006 10:20 AM</a> 
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    445 <div class="daygroup"> 
    446 <h2>August 19, 2006</h2> 
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    448 <div class="box"> 
    449 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3></div> 
    450 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    451 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/stringfellow.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    455 <h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=221">Car boot sale!</a></h4> 
    456 <div class="entry"> 
    457 <p>For the few (maybe one?) person who might be in Jersey and reading this (but you already know of course):</p> 
    458 <p><a target="_blank" href="http://trekforce.synfinity.net/news.php">Car boot sale! 10th Sept! Co-op car park!</a></p> 
    459 <p>Woooo!</p> 
    460 <p>Now thats FUNdraising.</p><p class="date"> 
    461 <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=221">by steve at 19 August, 2006 11:35 PM</a> 
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    470 <div class="box"> 
    471 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    472 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    473 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    477 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/buggy-motorola-v545">Buggy Motorola v545</a></h4> 
    478 <div class="entry"> 
    479 <div> 
    480                 <p>When I tried to connect to the Internet via my Palm again this morning, I found it had gone back to not working - either giving a PPP timeout or just giving up and cancelling the connection. I tried calling Orange support while I was on the train up to the Royal London this afternoon. It took over 10 minutes to get an answer and then just as I was giving the agent my name, I lost the signal.</p><p>I tried again at about 11:15 this evening. It still took about 10 minutes to get through, but being back at home I wasn't at risk of suddenly losing the signal again. After about half an hour of being transferred to more senior people, I finally got an answer. It appears there's a bug in my phone (a Motorola v545), which means that it sometimes locks on to a particular GPRS mast and doesn't switch to a nearer one when it should.</p><p>I was advised to do a hard reboot (remove the battery while the phone is powered up) then connect it back up a little while later and try again. This has fixed the problem. The impression I got from the agent was that it's not just this phone that's affected by this issue.</p> 
    481                 </div><p class="date"> 
    482 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/buggy-motorola-v545">19 August, 2006 11:01 PM</a> 
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    491 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/more-prednisolone-and-lower-creatinine">More prednisolone and lower creatinine</a></h4> 
    492 <div class="entry"> 
    493 <div> 
    494                 <p>I went back up to the Royal London to get my third dose of intravenous prednisolone this afternoon. It's not pleasant stuff. I was only given something like 600mg in 100ml of saline and that was enough to make my mouth taste bitter for a good couple of hours afterwards. While I was there, I asked the doctor to take some bloods so we'd have a more up-to-date creatinine value for Tuesday's clinic. </p><p>I also got given my blood results from Thursday and yesterday. Thursday's was 173, Friday's was 176. This is very good news and I see it as vindicating my opinion that it was the frusemide that was contributing to the rise in creatinine, given that Thursday's blood test was before I'd been given the first dose of intravenous prednisolone and after I'd stopped taking the frusemide. That's not to say that the prednisolone wasn't necessary - of course, the biopsy had shown borderline rejection. However, stopping the frusemide seems to be the only way to account for the drop in creatinine of 31 that occurred between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.</p><p>Once the drip had finished and I'd got my blood results, I made my way back home again on the train, continuing to read <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0552134635">Moving Pictures</a>. </p> 
    495                 </div><p class="date"> 
    496 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/more-prednisolone-and-lower-creatinine">19 August, 2006 10:59 PM</a> 
    497 </p> 
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    505 <div class="box"> 
    506 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/" title="thebearsarecoming.co.uk">James Frost (frosty)</a></h3></div> 
    507 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    508 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/frosty.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    512 <h4><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/19/ladies-and-gentlemen-revealing-the-new-look/">Ladies and gentlemen! Revealing the new look
</a></h4> 
    513 <div class="entry"> 
    514 <p>
frosty!<br /> 
    515 <br /></p> 
    516 <div class="c1"><img src="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/photos/20060819_newhair.jpg" alt="image defies description" /></div> 
    517 <br /> 
    518 Let’s just hope I’m nothing like Samson, and all of my 1337 skillz weren’t contained within my hair.<p class="date"> 
    519 <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/19/ladies-and-gentlemen-revealing-the-new-look/">by frosty at 19 August, 2006 02:48 PM</a> 
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    528 <div class="box"> 
    529 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3></div> 
    530 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    531 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/jo.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    535 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/why-are-you-here-at-least-i-have-an-excuse">Why are you here? At least I have an excuse...</a></h4> 
    536 <div class="entry"> 
    537 <div> 
    538                 <p>I seem to have completely forgotten to explain my reasons for blogging.  Not that I guess I need to, but I thought it might make more sense to people of I did at some point.  Csduck is currentely churning away on some large datasets meaning the reaction time of this window is a little slow - apologies in advance for typos.</p><p>The first thing I'd forgotten to say is how I started pole dancing.  I know it's not the most usual of hobbies.  I guess I'd always thought it looked really cool, but I'd never had a chance to try it, and I really wasn't keen on the whole stripping aspect.  Whilst in uni I became a cheerleading coach and up until the last few months, I was a member of the Birds of Prey squad, cheerleading for the Ospreys rugby team.  I loved cheerleading so much, and I also liked the idea of challenging people's perceptions.  To perform all the acrobatics we managed required a lot of strength and hard work, it wasn't about standing round in a short skirt dancing.  It was about throwing a girl doing the splits 20 feet into the air and then catching her again.  Because of work commitments I gradually had to ease off cheerleading this year, I wanted to find another sport to keep me fit and I was spending more time in London.  So I figured I'd go and try some pole dancing lessons and I was hooked from day one.  I've only had 2 lessons (totalling 3 1/3 hours) and the rest I've got from practice.  It was truly the most insane workout I'd ever had.  It all looks very easy when a woman is gracefully swinging round a pole in high heels but by god does it require some serious muscles to accomplish.  My teacher for both lessons had only been pole dancing for a year, and now worked professionally in clubs.  I figured that it might take me a bit longer to get up to her standard, but I'd like to somehow track my progress.</p><p>I've never been a fan of running or working out at the gym, if I find a good aerobics class then I can stick with that fairly easily as it doesn't feel like a workout if I'm having fun.  I love dancing, and could keep going for hours without realising how tired I am, and so for me, pole dancing was just the next step in intensity.  I don't mind people knowing I pole dance in the same way I didn't mind people knowing I was a cheerleader.  I'm never going to take my clothes off in front of anyone who isn't my boyfriend, money or no money.  I do it for the fitness and the fun.  The fact that it makes me feel as sexy as hell is just an advantage.</p><p>Anyway, that brings me nicely to my next point.  I'd wanted to start a blog for quite some time.  I seem to be some kind of chaos magnet - crazy things are always happening to me and I think in general they'd make quite amusing/interesting reading.  But for a start, some of them wouldn't seem believable, and some of them might end me up in trouble.  Then there's the matter of all my friends.  I know a lot about them, and am some kind of unofficial gossip holder for lots of people.  I wouldn't want to betray their trust for the sake of amusement of some strangers on the interweb.  For that reason, I steer clear of writing any posts that aren't to do with poles or PhDs.  Some of my decisions <a href="http://www.errorwear.com/huge-youarefullofbombs.html">and or</a> posts might not always make sense but as I'm sure you can imagine, there are many things influencing my mood that I just don't want to blog about.  My personal life will remain as such - until they turn it into a film and get Miranda Richardson to play me.  Or Dawn French.</p><p>And finally, I'm perilously close to finishing my PhD.  I hate people asking me how it's going (<a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=47">just don't ask</a>).  And I didn't want my blog just to be about hanging upside down from a pole or how my latest friction burns had occured.  I also wanted some kind of log of my progress in writing and submitting my thesis, leaving Swansea, getting a job and then taking my viva etc.  Shudder.  Best not think about that yet maybe.</p><p>So thats' why I'm here.  Sorry the explanation is a couple of months late.  There's a whole lot more to me than poles and PhDs, but they're the parts I'm happy sharing with the interweb.</p> 
    539                 </div><p class="date"> 
    540 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/why-are-you-here-at-least-i-have-an-excuse">19 August, 2006 12:35 PM</a> 
    541 </p> 
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    551 <h2>August 18, 2006</h2> 
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    554 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://blog.minus-zero.org/index.php/davea/" title="Dave's Grumblings">Dave Arter (davea)</a></h3></div> 
    555 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    556 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/davea.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    560 <h4><a href="http://blog.minus-zero.org/index.php/davea/entry/pybackpack-has-a-new-home">pyBackPack Has A New Home</a></h4> 
    561 <div class="entry"> 
    562 <p>I stopped working on pyBackPack a long time ago. The final year of my degree didn’t leave a lot of spare time for hacking on the code, and it fell by the wayside.</p> 
    563 <p>Now, however, my good friend <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/">Andy Price</a> has picked up the torch, and is going to continue pyBackPack’s development. He’s taken ownership of the code, and I’ve detached myself from it officially. Andy’s created a <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/projects/pybackpack/">project page</a>, and the <a href="http://projects.sucs.org/projects/pybackpack/">bug tracker</a> and <a href="http://sucs.org/~welshbyte/svn/backuptool/">SVN</a> systems are up and running. I’ve set up redirects on my website so all old links should be sent to the right places - please let me know if anything doesn’t work any more.</p> 
    564 <p>Best of luck to Andy!</p><p class="date"> 
    565 <a href="http://blog.minus-zero.org/index.php/davea/entry/pybackpack-has-a-new-home">by Dave Arter at 18 August, 2006 10:22 PM</a> 
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    575 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    576 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    577 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    581 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/prednisolone">Prednisolone</a></h4> 
    582 <div class="entry"> 
    583 <div> 
    584                 <p>So they gave me the intravenous prednisolone-based drug last night and I was seen by a gaggle of doctors, including Dr Raftery this morning. He said that they could give me the next dose at about midday and then I could go home.</p><p>I've got to go back tomorrow afternoon for the third dose, but I've been back home since about 3:30pm. This is a Good Thing.</p><p>It's amazing how much better it is to be reading Men at Arms sitting on my own bed at home rather than a hospital bed in Devonshire Ward. Apart from anything else, I'm not being distracted by people shouting &quot;Nurse!&quot; every two minutes, vomiting over the sides of their beds or trying to escape, naked, from the ward (all of which happened this morning).</p><p>It's also quite a strange feeling living in an environment where you're part of a very small ethnic minority. Most of the other patients are Indian or African and the nursing staff were all Indian, African or Chinese with the exception of the New Zealander and the Irish woman. </p> 
    585                 </div><p class="date"> 
    586 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/prednisolone">18 August, 2006 06:14 PM</a> 
    587 </p> 
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    595 <div class="box"> 
    596 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3></div> 
    597 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    598 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/jo.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    599  
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    602 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/baila-en-la-calle-de-noche">Baila en la calle de noche...</a></h4> 
    603 <div class="entry"> 
    604 <div> 
    605                 <p>Phew.  Super busy week.</p><p>I guess for the last 3 days I've been in the crunch - for anyone unfamiliar with the term it's commonly used by programmers when they have a deadline appraoching and have to work stupid crazy hours to get everything done.  Or I might have made that up, but now you understand what I mean even if I did.  </p><p>Today hasn't quite gone to plan as csduck is busy making/processing yet more datasets which has pretty much crippled it for any other usage.  This coupled with cs-svr1 running out of room earlier has meant that not quite everything has been crossed off today's list yet.  Annoyingly, I'm sure Captainjack could make these datasets in the time it takes me to say &quot;Ye be no more piratey than a kazaa user on dialup&quot;, but I don't have the required capacity media to take the datasets home.  Oh well.</p><p>So anyway, yes, very busy and productive week.  Chen has started reading my thesis, and actually liked it.  (I suspect someone may have spiked his coffee that morning)  So, as apparentely I've gotten the hang of this whole writing business, I've been doing lots more of it.  And a pile of programming/code manking to make yet more pretty graphs and tables.  </p><p>And in other oh-so-terribly-exciting news for today, I've been called for my first job interview.  It's a lecturship (hurrah for academia!), which requires me to give a presentation on &quot;cyber crime, digital evidence and its impact on SME's, government and individuals&quot;.  I have 2 weeks or so to prepare, and whilst I'm not expecting to be offered the job, I'm looking forward to meeting people and brushing up on my interview technique.  </p><p>...Baila en la calle de día.</p><p>:)</p> 
    606                 </div><p class="date"> 
    607 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/baila-en-la-calle-de-noche">18 August, 2006 04:11 PM</a> 
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    617 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/" title="Rolling Along..">Chris Jones (rollercow)</a></h3></div> 
    618 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    619 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/rollercow.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    623 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/entry/place-names">Place names!</a></h4> 
    624 <div class="entry"> 
    625 <p>The UK has some brilliant place names...</p> 
    626 <p>Today I came across the small village of <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Login&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1" title="Google Map of Login">Login</a>, out west of St Clears.</p> 
    627 <p>Anyone know of any other geeky place names?</p><p class="date"> 
    628 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/rollercow/entry/place-names">by Chris Jones at 18 August, 2006 10:28 AM</a> 
    629 </p> 
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    637 <div class="box"> 
    638 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    639 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    640 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    644 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/another-day-another-blood-test">Another day, another blood test</a></h4> 
    645 <div class="entry"> 
    646 <div> 
    647                 <p>It's about 7:30am and I've recently been woken up by a Health Care Support Worker wielding a blood pressure cuff. Having got the biopsy and ultrasound out of the way, today should be quieter. Of course, just to prove me wrong, a nurse turned up with a bunch of swabs to test for MRSA and during this one, she returned to put an ID bracelet on my right arm. I can only imagine that they're expecting me to lose an arm during my stay - there's already one on my left.</p><p>The blood test I had done on Wednesday afternoon showed a creatinine of 207 - an increase of 16 on earlier that day. I haven't had the resullts of yesterday's bloods yet though. </p> 
    648                 </div><p class="date"> 
    649 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/another-day-another-blood-test">18 August, 2006 07:03 AM</a> 
    650 </p> 
    651 </div> 
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    659 <div class="daygroup"> 
    660 <h2>August 17, 2006</h2> 
    661  
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    663 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://gofasterstripes.livejournal.com/" title="Come on you slags!">Seyhan Aydin (seymansey)</a></h3></div> 
    664 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    665 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/seymansey.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    666  
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    668 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    669 <h4><a href="http://gofasterstripes.livejournal.com/170091.html">ooo waaa ooo</a></h4> 
    670 <div class="entry"> 
    671 Oh dear, new music fad altert! FEMALE TRIO BAND THINGS!<br /> 
    672 <br /> 
    673 <br /> 
    674 <br /> 
    675 The puppini sisters:<br /> 
    676 <br /> 
    677 <img src="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/images/puppini.jpg" alt="image defies description" /><br /> 
    678 <br /> 
    679 and the pippettes:<br /> 
    680 <br /> 
    681 <img src="http://www.nonstuff.com/wp-content/pipettes.jpg" alt="image defies description" /><br /> 
    682 <br /> 
    683 Personally, the pippettes get my votes ;)<p class="date"> 
    684 <a href="http://gofasterstripes.livejournal.com/170091.html">17 August, 2006 10:46 PM</a> 
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    686 </div> 
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    692 </div> 
    693 <div class="box"> 
    694 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    695 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    696 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    697  
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    699 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    700 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/since-getting-a-bed">Since getting a bed</a></h4> 
    701 <div class="entry"> 
    702 <div> 
    703                 I got a bed finally at about 11pm. They did the biopsy before 9 this morning and I was hoping to go home this evening. No such luck. The results came back showing borderline rejection, so they did an ultrasound this evening, which was fine. They're going to give me intravenous steroids tonight. 
    704 It seems there's a 256(?) char limit on textareas in Opera Mini :-/ 
    705                 </div><p class="date"> 
    706 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/since-getting-a-bed">17 August, 2006 09:36 PM</a> 
    707 </p> 
    708 </div> 
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    715 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/using-opera-mini">Using Opera Mini</a></h4> 
    716 <div class="entry"> 
    717 <div> 
    718                 <p>So, I'm stuck in hospital with a worse than useless money-grabbing Patientline console next to my bed, which I'm not intending to waste any of my money on. Fortunately though, I have my Palm and my mobile and a working Internet connection between the two. Funny how it's suddenly decided to start working again. When I first tried to connect, it told me that the Bluetooth components weren't installed properly and I'd have to reinstall them. However, pressing &quot;Reset&quot; sorted that out and it then connected absolutely fine.</p><p>So much for Orange telling me it was my settings - they hadn't changed at all since it wasn't working. They hadn't changed since it was either, so I was already fairly sure it was their fault. </p><p> Opera is, so far at least, proving to be reliable - unlike the other Palm browsers I've tried.</p> 
    719                 </div><p class="date"> 
    720 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/using-opera-mini">17 August, 2006 09:25 PM</a> 
    721 </p> 
    722 </div> 
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    728 </div> 
    729 <div class="box"> 
    730 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/" title="Andrew Price's Blog">Andrew Price (welshbyte)</a></h3></div> 
    731 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    732 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/welshbyte.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    733  
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    735 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    736 <h4><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/back-to-scrobbling">Back To Scrobbling</a></h4> 
    737 <div class="entry"> 
    738 <p>Good news - my <a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/55920">lastfmsubmitd sync request</a> got sorted out and I have returned to the world of the scrobblers <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/welshbyte/">on last.fm</a>, managing to pass 7000 tracks played shortly after my return. I haven’t used lastfmsubmitd and lastmp for a while - since around version 0.21 when I did a bit of debugging for it - and since then it has reached version 0.32.1, gotten into Debian Sid (Unstable branch) and subsequently into Ubuntu Edgy which I have installed for testing on my PC. I’m rather impressed with how smooth it’s installing and running these days.</p> 
    739 <p>So if you’re crazy enough to be running Ubuntu Edgy or Debian Sid at the moment and have a last.fm account (and you like to use the terminal), I’d recommend the following:</p> 
    740 <p class="cli">$ sudo apt-get install mpd mpc lastfmsubmitd lastmp</p> 
    741 <p>mpd 0.12 is due to be released later this month and it’s the first new release for quite a while. It’s looking quite shiny. I hope it gets into Debian unstable fast enough to be synced into Edgy.</p> 
    742 <p class="cli">$ if [ food_of_love "music" ]; do mpc play; done</p> 
    743 <p>Apologies to Mr. Shakespeare</p> 
    744 <p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/back-to-scrobbling">Link</a>]</p><p class="date"> 
    745 <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/back-to-scrobbling">by Andrew Price at 17 August, 2006 01:58 PM</a> 
    746 </p> 
    747 </div> 
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    753 </div> 
    754 <div class="box"> 
    755 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/" title="Thoughts of an Educated Fool">Sean Handley (talyn256)</a></h3></div> 
    756 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    757 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/talyn256.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    758  
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    760 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    761 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/its-a-funny-old-world-xv">It's a funny old world... XV</a></h4> 
    762 <div class="entry"> 
    763 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/5239962.stm">"Take this, copper."</a></p> 
    764 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5240832.stm">Canine Ursacide</a></p> 
    765 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5241342.stm?ls">It's a live!</a></p> 
    766 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5251952.stm">Anger Bar is a Big Hit</a></p> 
    767 <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4794279.stm">You rang?</a></p><p class="date"> 
    768 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/its-a-funny-old-world-xv">by Sean Handley at 17 August, 2006 09:15 AM</a> 
    769 </p> 
    770 </div> 
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    776 </div> 
    777 <div class="box"> 
    778 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/" title="Der Blog">Peter Berry (pwb)</a></h3></div> 
    779 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    780 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/pwb.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    781  
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    783 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    784 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/bug-of-the-month">Bug of the month</a></h4> 
    785 <div class="entry"> 
    786 <div> 
    787                 This must be <a href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/56125">the funniest bug report ever</a>. 
    788                 </div><p class="date"> 
    789 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/bug-of-the-month">17 August, 2006 01:16 AM</a> 
    790 </p> 
    791 </div> 
    792 </div> 
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    797 </div> 
    798 <div class="box"> 
    799 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress" title="Tobeon.co.uk">Tom Bradley (tobeon)</a></h3></div> 
    800 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    801 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/tobeon.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    802  
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    804 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    805 <h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=447">Gay Movie</a></h4> 
    806 <div class="entry"> 
    807 <p>Click <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/videos/gaymovie.wmv">here</a> to download the video</p><p class="date"> 
    808 <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=447">by Tobeon at 17 August, 2006 12:19 AM</a> 
    809 </p> 
    810 </div> 
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    818 <div class="daygroup"> 
    819 <h2>August 16, 2006</h2> 
    820  
    821 <div class="box"> 
    822 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://blog.minus-zero.org/index.php/davea/" title="Dave's Grumblings">Dave Arter (davea)</a></h3></div> 
    823 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    824 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/davea.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    825  
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    828 <h4><a href="http://blog.minus-zero.org/index.php/davea/entry/apache-22-and-mod-python-on-os-x">Apache 2.2 and mod_python on OS X</a></h4> 
    829 <div class="entry"> 
    830 <p>While working on a forthcoming project (watch this space...), I decided it’d be a lot easier to test the code on my local machine rather than SUCS’s server.<br /> 
    831 Tiger (yes, I’m a Mac user these days) comes with Apache 1.3, which is rather outdated, so I looked into updating to a more recent release. <a href="http://fink.sf.net/">Fink</a> has Apache 2.0, but I decided to go all-out and try and get <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">Apache 2.2</a> running. It turned out to be relatively easy.</p> 
    832 <p>Here’s my setup:</p> 
    833 <ul> 
    834 <li>OS X 10.4.7 on an <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html">Apple MacBook</a></li> 
    835 <li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/">XCode</a> 2.3</li> 
    836 <li>Python 2.4.3 from <a href="http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.3/#macos-x">python.org</a></li> 
    837 </ul> 
    838 <p>First of all, we need to get Apache compiled and installed.</p> 
    839 <pre> 
    840 $ wget http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.apache.org/httpd/httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz<br /> 
    841 $ tar zxf httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz<br /> 
    842 $ cd httpd-2.2.3<br /> 
    843 $ ./configure --with-mpm=worker --enable-so<br /> 
    844 $ make<br /> 
    845 $ sudo make install<br /> 
    846 </pre> 
    847 That should install Apache into <code>/usr/local/apache2</code>. 
    848 <p>Next, download and compile <a href="http://www.modpython.org/">mod_python</a>:</p> 
    849 <pre> 
    850 <br /> 
    851 $ wget http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/httpd/modpython/mod_python-3.2.10.tgz<br /> 
    852 $ tar zxf mod_python-3.2.10.tgz<br /> 
    853 $ cd mod_python-3.2.10<br /> 
    854 $ ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python<br /> 
    855 $ make<br /> 
    856 $ sudo make install<br /> 
    857 </pre> 
    858 That’ll build mod_python and put the appropriate files in <code>/usr/local/apache2/modules</code>. 
    859 <p>Configuring our newly-compiled Apache to replace OS X’s default one is easy enough - a few changes to <code>/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf</code> and <code>extra/httpd-userdir.conf</code> is all it takes. Download an archive with all the necessary patch files <a href="http://minus-zero.org/misc/blog/apache2_osx_files.zip">here</a>. Note - these configuration changes don’t cause Apache 2 to behave <i>exactly</i> like Tiger’s Apache 1.3, and there may be parts I’ve overlooked that could be exploited.<br /> 
    860 To apply the patches, run the following as root (from the directory with the extracted contents of the archive):</p> 
    861 <pre> 
    862 <br /> 
    863 # patch /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf httpd.conf.patch<br /> 
    864 # cp httpd-userdir.conf /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/.<br /> 
    865 </pre> 
    866 <p>By now, you should have a working Apache 2 setup on your Mac, but how can we make it start at boot? This is relatively easy - we can use <code>/Library/StartupItems</code> to accomplish this. The <a href="http://minus-zero.org/misc/blog/apache2_osx_files.zip">zip file</a> contains the files you need to put in this directory to automate Apache’s startup.<br /> 
    867 Unzip the archive and then <code>cp -r Apache2 /Library/StartupItems/.</code> as root.</p> 
    868 <p>That’s it! To get the server started, you can run <code>sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start "Web Server"</code> and then browse to <a href="http://localhost/">http://localhost/</a> to test your new Apache installation! And then, of course, you can <a href="http://www.diveintopython.org/">dive into</a> <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers">the world of</a> <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>.</p><p class="date"> 
    869 <a href="http://blog.minus-zero.org/index.php/davea/entry/apache-22-and-mod-python-on-os-x">by Dave Arter at 16 August, 2006 11:00 PM</a> 
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    878 <div class="box"> 
    879 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/" title="Andrew Price's Blog">Andrew Price (welshbyte)</a></h3></div> 
    880 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    881 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/welshbyte.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    885 <h4><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/ive-bagged-pybackpack">I've Bagged pyBackPack</a></h4> 
    886 <div class="entry"> 
    887 <p>As I mentioned in my <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/downsizing">previous entry</a>, <a href="http://minus-zero.org/">Dave</a> had given me the opportunity to take his 2005 Google Summer of Code project, pyBackPack, off his hands and carry on its development after he had just about abandoned the code. Today the <a href="http://projects.sucs.org/projects/pybackpack/changeset/37">handover</a> was made and pyBackPack is now my first ever real open source project. I’m very excited about it.</p> 
    888 <p>pyBackPack is a pretty nifty file backup manager written in python with a GUI built with Glade2. I have dabbled in python/GTK+ programming before so it should be pretty easy to get to grips with the code. Some new underlying concepts such as rdiff, mkisofs, cdrecord and programmatically transferring files over SFTP, parallel concepts such as rolling .rpm and .deb packages and general package maintenance will be new aspects to me but I’m sure my enthusiasm will plug those gaps in my skillset soon enough. My development will be mostly done using Ubuntu (I have 6.06 and Edgy to test it on) and I have an Fedora Core 5 install to test it on too but I’m hoping others will get involved and take some of the distro-centric tasks off my hands.</p> 
    889 <p>To keep you up-to-date with pyBackPack development and download releases, code and screenshots I’ve started a <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/projects/pybackpack/">pyBackPack page</a> which I’ll make pretty and add more to in good time.</p> 
    890 <p>So, thanks Dave, I’m sure I’ll be badgering you to explain some of your more eccentric coding decisions for the next few weeks :)</p> 
    891 <p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/ive-bagged-pybackpack">Link</a>]</p><p class="date"> 
    892 <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/ive-bagged-pybackpack">by Andrew Price at 16 August, 2006 09:48 PM</a> 
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    902 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    903 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    904 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    908 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/waiting-for-a-bed">Waiting for a bed</a></h4> 
    909 <div class="entry"> 
    910 <div> 
    911                 <p>So I got my blood results back - creatinine of 191. This is a reduction of 6, which apparently wasn't enough and so they want to biopsy me anyway. I'd have thought a reduction of 6 over 24 hours was pretty good going myself, but there we are.</p><p>Petrina walked me down to Devonshire Ward at about 3pm and I was told a bed would be available soon. Here we are six hours later and it's still not, so I came down to the cybercafe to avoid the football being shown in the day room. I finished reading <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0552134627/202-4635942-8858254">Guards! Guards!</a> at about 5pm so then had nothing to do but watch TV.</p><p>A doctor came and saw me at about 7:30 and took a load more blood from me. I then took my drugs (which they had to fetch from Paulin Ward, what with me not having brought mine with me and Devonshire being the pre-transplant ward). After that, I decided to go for a walk.</p><p>I then had fun trying to extract cash from a cash machine. Both the Woolwich ones claimed to have run out of money, so I walked down the road and found one at the Shell garage, which hadn't but which wouldn't accept my pin. Fortunately I remembered the pin for my old current account that I don't use any more and was able to extract money from that. </p> 
    912                 </div><p class="date"> 
    913 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/waiting-for-a-bed">16 August, 2006 08:04 PM</a> 
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    922 <div class="box"> 
    923 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/" title="Thoughts of an Educated Fool">Sean Handley (talyn256)</a></h3></div> 
    924 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    925 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/talyn256.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    929 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/lolollololooloool">LOLOLLOLOLOOLOOOL</a></h4> 
    930 <div class="entry"> 
    931 <p>Here's a great new baggy-pants style prank I've written.</p> 
    932 <p>All you need to do is catch an unsuspecting Windows user afk and run <a href="http://www.sucs.org/~talyn256/Reg_Hack_LOL.reg">this sneaky little hack</a>. Et voila! Every key has been mapped to 'L' or 'O'.</p> 
    933 <p>To remove, just navigate to the relevant section using regedit and delete the key manually - info is in the file.</p> 
    934 <p>EDIT: A one-click removal hack is <a href="http://www.sucs.org/~talyn256/Reg_Hack_LOL_Remove.reg">here</a>.</p> 
    935 <p>EDIT: Disclaimer: Be careful not to lock yourself/someone else out of the computer! Use at your own risk.</p> 
    936 <p>Happy LOLing! :D</p> 
    937 <p>____________________<br /> 
    938 Note: Needs a reboot, and is somewhat thwarted by password login. A bonus if you know their password is to change it to the equivalent in LOLese before the reboot. Yes, I'm bored.</p><p class="date"> 
    939 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/lolollololooloool">by Sean Handley at 16 August, 2006 07:40 PM</a> 
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    949 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    950 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    951 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    955 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/second-clinic-in-as-many-days">Second clinic in as many days</a></h4> 
    956 <div class="entry"> 
    957 <div> 
    958                 <p>So, up to Whitechapel again this morning for another clinic. I had to wait over an hour to have my bloods taken and then just as the phlebotamist took the needle out, I was called in to see Dr Raftery.</p><p>He's not overly worried by the increased creatinine, but he wanted me to stay back and wait for my blood results.</p><p>Consequently, I'm currently in the Telecall cybercafe just round the corner from the Royal London, using up the last hour and a bit of credit left from the initial £2 I paid when I was still in hospital nearly three months ago.</p><p>If my creatinine hasn't fallen, which I don't suppose it will have done, what with last week's being 173 and yesterday's being 197, they will want to do a biopsy of my transplanted kidney, which will mean lying flat for 6 hours, so I won't be getting home any time before about 9pm.</p><p>I noticed both yesterday and today that the ticket inspectors are out in force, even more so than when I <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/weight-loss">mentioned them previously</a>. They're now going about in gangs of at least three and when they reach Prittlewell, they get off and hang around the steps up to the road and demand to see peoples' tickets. They've evidently realised that people wanting to go to Southend without paying are getting off at Prittlewell, which is pretty much unmanned, and walking the rest of the way. </p> 
    959                 </div><p class="date"> 
    960 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/second-clinic-in-as-many-days">16 August, 2006 01:24 PM</a> 
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    970 <div class="daygroup"> 
    971 <h2>August 15, 2006</h2> 
    972  
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    974 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    975 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    976 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    980 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/creatinine-up-a-lot">Creatinine up a lot</a></h4> 
    981 <div class="entry"> 
    982 <div> 
    983                 <p>Today, being Tueday, was clinic day. This was as uneventful as it has been the last few times.</p><p>However, at about 5pm, I had a phone call from the clinic informing me that today's creatinine was 197 and that they want me to go back to clinic tomorrow to have more blood tests. I wouldn't be surprised if they'll want to biopsy me too.</p><p>Obviously, I'm hoping that this rise is simply due to the amount of manual work I did yesterday and not because the kidney is failing. However, I believe my cyclosporin level is rather higher than most peoples at this point after the transplant, so that could be having an effect. Also, I suspect the frusemide might be something to do with it.</p><p>I suppose I'll just have to wait until tomorrow to find out... :-/ </p> 
    984                 </div><p class="date"> 
    985 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/creatinine-up-a-lot">15 August, 2006 09:59 PM</a> 
    986 </p> 
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    994 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/more-work-on-the-house">More work on the house</a></h4> 
    995 <div class="entry"> 
    996 <div> 
    997                 <p>Yesterday, Graham, Heather and I went back down to Maidstone to help Ellen and Ben with more work on their house.</p><p>On Sunday, they had stripped the wallpaper in the dining room and we continued with wallpaper stripping in the living room. The highest priority though was getting the carpets up so that when the woodworm treatment people came today they could get straight on with it.</p><p>In most rooms, there were at least three layers to be removed - carpet, underlay and lino. I had the job of removing gripper rods from the edges of the rooms, which I then put into the drawers of various bits of tatty old MDF furniture which were being disposed of anyway. These we dubbed the &quot;drawers of death&quot; what with all the nasty pointy nails on sticks they contained. During the course of the day, Ben and I made numerous trips to the tip with assorted carpets and smashed-up furniture - we had to smash it up to fit it in the car. Sticking long bits of MDF over the kerb and jumping on them to break them into smaller bits is fun. :-)</p><p>Later in the afternoon, Ellen decided to investigate the fireplaces in the bedrooms and discovered a couple of original cast iron fireplaces which she was very pleased with.</p><p>We were about to leave when we realised that we hadn't dealt with the floor in the kitchen which we had originally thought was concrete and so wouldn't need woodworm treatment. However, after jumping up and down on it a few times, we established that it was sufficiently springy to definitely have floorboards. So the synthetic lino-type stuff came up. Under that, we found sheet hardboard that had been rather over-enthusiastically stapled down. We got some of that up to reveal a 1950s tiled floor, which had been glued to lino apparently using tar. The lino had then been glued to the floorboards. Rather a lot of work with a hefty screwdriver and a large hammer finally got  that up and we left Maidstone about an hour and a half later than anticipated. </p> 
    998                 </div><p class="date"> 
    999 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/more-work-on-the-house">15 August, 2006 09:52 PM</a> 
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    1009 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/" title="thebearsarecoming.co.uk">James Frost (frosty)</a></h3></div> 
    1010 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1011 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/frosty.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    1015 <h4><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/15/hahahahaa/">hahahahaa</a></h4> 
    1016 <div class="entry"> 
    1017 <p>I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_Booth">Photobooth</a>!<br /> 
    1018 <br /></p> 
    1019 <div class="c1"><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/photos/photobooth88.jpg"><img src="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/photos/_thm_photobooth88.jpg" border="0" alt="My face, distorted with Photo Booth" class="photo" /></a></div> 
    1020 <br /> 
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    1022 UPDATE: There are two more new ones <a href="http://sucs.org/~frosty/floating.jpg">here</a> and <a href="http://sucs.org/~frosty/jesus.jpg">here</a>. I love this program!<p class="date"> 
    1023 <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/15/hahahahaa/">by frosty at 15 August, 2006 07:38 PM</a> 
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    1032 <div class="box"> 
    1033 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/" title="Poles apart: From PhDs to Pirouettes">Jo</a></h3></div> 
    1034 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1035 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/jo.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    1039 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/reupulate-the-pole">Reupulate the pole!</a></h4> 
    1040 <div class="entry"> 
    1041 <div> 
    1042                 <p>Well, my carpet has been given a chance to recover over the weekend, as I took the pole down whilst my mother came to visit.  Last night, Andy helped me put it back up again, which gave me the chance to practise going upside down without my face exploding.</p><p>I remembered to breathe this time, which means that I've not gotten any crazy markings on my face.  A few friction burns on my shoulders and legs, but that's all par for the course really ;)</p><p>I also managed to dismount from the inverted position in heels without dying.  There's a video as proof <a href="http://sucs.org/~jo/bloglinks/7.mp4">here</a>.  One of the main problems I have with getting back on the floor is when you're in <a href="http://sucs.org/~jo/bloglinks/14.jpg">this</a> position, it becomes very hard to work out which way is up, which way is down, and whether or not fighting gravity is a good thing.  I think I might need to strengthen my stomach/shoulder muscles a little and work on my back flexibility.  It is a fairly scary manoeuvre, especially in  6 inch stilleto heels (but then again, what isn't scary in 6 inch heels?)</p><p>++Busy week PhD-wise, hopefully will update later in the week....</p> 
    1043                 </div><p class="date"> 
    1044 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/reupulate-the-pole">15 August, 2006 11:10 AM</a> 
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    1053 <div class="box"> 
    1054 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/" title="SUCS News">SUCS News</a></h3></div> 
    1055 <div class="boxcontent"> 
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    1059 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/index.php">Freshers 2006</a></h4> 
    1060 <div class="entry"> 
    1061 The Computer Society welcomes all Swansea freshers (and returning students)! SUCS is one of the university’s longest-running and largest societies. In addition to providing members with a range of <a href="http://sucs.org/services/about.php">IT services</a>, we hold regular events and socials throughout the year. We have our own <a href="http://sucs.org/services/room.php">computer room</a> on campus with 24 hour swipe-card access. There are usually members present through the week so feel free to stop by. As usual, we’ll be at the freshers’ fayre this year to answer any questions you may have. If we miss you at the fayre, then please come meet us at a social. We’re usually in the quiet side of JC’s from about 1pm on Fridays :-) Have a great year!<p class="date"> 
    1062 <a href="http://sucs.org/index.php">by talyn256 at 15 August, 2006 10:53 AM</a> 
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    1071 <div class="box"> 
    1072 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/" title="thebearsarecoming.co.uk">James Frost (frosty)</a></h3></div> 
    1073 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1074 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/frosty.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
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    1078 <h4><a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/15/whats-in-my-bag/">What’s In Your Bag?</a></h4> 
    1079 <div class="entry"> 
    1080 <p>I found this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">meme</a> on <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> earlier today - people take a photo of the contents of their bag, label everything, and then post it to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/52241283780@N01/pool/">‘what’s in your bag’</a> group for everyone to see. It’s rather materialistic and consumer-whoreish, but interesting nonetheless. At the time of writing this, there are nearly 2,250 photos in the group. Wowzers. So, anyway, I thought I’d join in. Here’s my entry:</p> 
    1081 <p><br /></p> 
    1082 <div class="c1"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfrost/215505940/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/65/215505940_676d146b81_m.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /> 
    1083 <span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfrost/215505940/">What’s In My Bag?</a></span><br clear="all" /></div><p class="date"> 
    1084 <a href="http://www.thebearsarecoming.co.uk/2006/08/15/whats-in-my-bag/">by frosty at 15 August, 2006 12:30 AM</a> 
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    1095 <h2>August 14, 2006</h2> 
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    1098 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress" title="Tobeon.co.uk">Tom Bradley (tobeon)</a></h3></div> 
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    1104 <h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=446">Damn police</a></h4> 
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    1106 <p><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/pbpost3.mp3">Download audio file (pbpost3.mp3)</a><br /></p><p class="date"> 
    1107 <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=446">by Tobeon at 14 August, 2006 11:54 PM</a> 
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    1117 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/" title="Andrew Price's Blog">Andrew Price (welshbyte)</a></h3></div> 
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    1123 <h4><a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/downsizing">Downsizing</a></h4> 
    1124 <div class="entry"> 
    1125 <p>I’ve finally gotten around to mucking out the rest of the old, purple junk from my website. With the PBF getting its own <a href="http://www.pbfcomics.com/feed/feed.xml">RSS feed</a> and Dave offering to give me maintainership of <a href="http://minus-zero.org/projects/pybackpack/">pybackpack</a>, I decided it was about time to scrap the old pages, scripts and programs that made up the "Geekiness" section of the website and replace it with a slightly more grown-up Projects section that will contain details about things that I’ve been hacking on or just taking part in. At the moment the list isn’t very impressive but once I’ve embedded myself deeper into the open source world I expect it will grow and get less waffly.</p> 
    1126 <p>I still haven’t gotten around to implementing comments for my web blog but then I haven’t yet figured out the best way to handle comment spam. I don’t want to add verification images that bots can’t read and I’m not keen on the idea of comment moderation. But I’m open to <a href="mailto:andy%20AT%20SIGN%20andrewprice.me.uk">suggestions</a>.</p> 
    1127 <p>Oh, I’ve also ditched the Links page. I mean, who reads them?</p> 
    1128 <p>[<a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/downsizing">Link</a>]</p><p class="date"> 
    1129 <a href="http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/downsizing">by Andrew Price at 14 August, 2006 02:38 PM</a> 
    1130 </p> 
    1131 </div> 
    1132 </div> 
    1133  
    1134  
    1135  
    1136 </div> 
    1137 </div> 
    1138 <div class="box"> 
    1139 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress" title="Tobeon.co.uk">Tom Bradley (tobeon)</a></h3></div> 
    1140 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1141 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/tobeon.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1142  
    1143  
    1144 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1145 <h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=445">So much work!</a></h4> 
    1146 <div class="entry"> 
    1147 <p>Now I have got settled into McDonald’s now begins my almost non-stop working week, on the plus side I only need to keep this up for a few weeks before I will have made enough money to pay off my overdraft! On the down side I might just die of exhaustion oh well. <span class="c1">(a slight exageration!)</span><br /> 
    1148 <a title="Calendar Screenshot" class="imagelink" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/screenshot.JPG"><img alt="Calendar Screenshot" id="image444" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/screenshot.thumbnail.JPG" name="image444" /></a></p><p class="date"> 
    1149 <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=445">by Tobeon at 14 August, 2006 09:28 AM</a> 
    1150 </p> 
    1151 </div> 
    1152 </div> 
    1153  
    1154  
    1155 </div> 
    1156 </div> 
    1157  
    1158 </div> 
    1159 <div class="daygroup"> 
    1160 <h2>August 13, 2006</h2> 
    1161  
    1162 <div class="box"> 
    1163 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3></div> 
    1164 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1165 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/stringfellow.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1166  
    1167  
    1168 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1169 <h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=220">Blank.</a></h4> 
    1170 <div class="entry"> 
    1171 <p>HAHAHA
 Ok, I have just been browsing <a target="_blank" href="http://theravensnest.org">TR</a>’s space and found this:</p> 
    1172 <p>http://theravensnest.org/blank.html</p> 
    1173 <p>For those of you that have never taken Computer Science, or have thus far managed to avoid Safety Critical Systems, this seems to be a take on <a target="_blank" href="http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csetzer/">Anton Setzer</a>’s slight <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csetzer/lectures/critsys/04/critsysfinalforprinting4.pdf">over</a> efficiency
</p><p class="date"> 
    1174 <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=220">by steve at 13 August, 2006 08:57 PM</a> 
    1175 </p> 
    1176 </div> 
    1177 </div> 
    1178  
    1179  
    1180 </div> 
    1181 </div> 
    1182  
    1183 </div> 
    1184 <div class="daygroup"> 
    1185 <h2>August 12, 2006</h2> 
    1186  
    1187 <div class="box"> 
    1188 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/" title="SUCS News">SUCS News</a></h3></div> 
    1189 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1190  
    1191  
    1192 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1193 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/index.php">Jabber accounts on the new server</a></h4> 
    1194 <div class="entry"> 
    1195 As part of our transition to a new server, we will be using different software for our Jabber service which uses the same authentication method as most of the other services. In particular, this means: 
    1196 <ul> 
    1197 <li>All members will automatically get Jabber accounts - no need to register.</li> 
    1198 <li>Your Jabber password will be the same as your other passwords, i.e., the one you use to log in to the workstations in the room and check your email. If your client saves your password, remember to change it when you first connect to the new server.</li> 
    1199 <li>Non-members will lose their Jabber accounts.</li> 
    1200 <li>Any members whose Jabber username is different to their system username will ALSO lose their accounts. E.g., if your email address is johnsmith@sucs.org and your Jabber address is john@sucs.org, you’ll lose the latter (but you will automatically get the Jabber address johnsmith@sucs.org).</li> 
    1201 </ul> 
    1202 If the last point will affect you, please send an email to admin@sucs.org telling us your system and Jabber usernames and we’ll see that your data gets transferred to your system username.<p class="date"> 
    1203 <a href="http://sucs.org/index.php">by pwb at 12 August, 2006 09:51 PM</a> 
    1204 </p> 
    1205 </div> 
    1206 </div> 
    1207  
    1208  
    1209  
    1210 </div> 
    1211 </div> 
    1212 <div class="box"> 
    1213 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    1214 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1215 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1216  
    1217  
    1218 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1219 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/ellens-new-house">Ellen's new house</a></h4> 
    1220 <div class="entry"> 
    1221 <div> 
    1222                 <p>My older sister, Ellen, has just bought a house in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Maidstone&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1">Maidstone</a> with her soon-to-be-husband, Ben. They completed yesterday and so today, Graham and I drove down there to help strip wallpaper, rip up carpets and demolish nasty old MDF furniture for Ben to take to the tip. Our dad, who Graham has started referring to as a &quot;mentalist&quot; on the basis of his <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/critical-mass">bike ride last night</a> had come up from Brighton to Maidstone on the train and gave some help in between naps on the dining room floor. </p><p>They're having woodworm and damp treatment done on Tuesday, so all the carpets have to be up by then.</p><p>We had the usual new-house fun of not having any cutlery or crockery, but bravely struggled on, buttering bread with the tiny knife from Ellen's <a href="http://www.swiss-army-knives.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=07122T">Swisscard</a> and boiling the kettle then dropping the teabags into it to make the tea.</p><p>At about 5pm, we strapped the bike rack to the car, attached dad's bike to it and headed back through the Dartford Tunnel to home, just in time to have a quick vegetarian curry from the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0091863643/202-0929828-6671801?v=glance&amp;n=266239&amp;s=gateway&amp;v=glance">Madhur Jaffrey recipe book</a> before I took Graham to a band practice at Nightfly.<br /></p> 
    1223                 </div><p class="date"> 
    1224 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/ellens-new-house">12 August, 2006 06:54 PM</a> 
    1225 </p> 
    1226 </div> 
    1227 </div> 
    1228  
    1229  
    1230  
    1231 </div> 
    1232 </div> 
    1233 <div class="box"> 
    1234 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress" title="Tobeon.co.uk">Tom Bradley (tobeon)</a></h3></div> 
    1235 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1236 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/tobeon.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1237  
    1238  
    1239 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1240 <h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=442">First Audio Post!</a></h4> 
    1241 <div class="entry"> 
    1242 <p><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/pbpost1.mp3">Download audio file (pbpost1.mp3)</a><br /></p><p class="date"> 
    1243 <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=442">by Tobeon at 12 August, 2006 06:33 PM</a> 
    1244 </p> 
    1245 </div> 
    1246 </div> 
    1247  
    1248  
    1249 </div> 
    1250 </div> 
    1251  
    1252 </div> 
    1253 <div class="daygroup"> 
    1254 <h2>August 11, 2006</h2> 
    1255  
    1256 <div class="box"> 
    1257 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/" title="Let the blog see the rabbit...">Denis Walker (dez)</a></h3></div> 
    1258 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1259 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/dez.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1260  
    1261  
    1262 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1263 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/critical-mass">Critical Mass</a></h4> 
    1264 <div class="entry"> 
    1265 <div> 
    1266                 <div><img src="http://sucs.org/~dez/blogfiles/bikeride.jpg" border="0" alt="[Me cycling]" width="320" height="240" /></div><p>I went on the <a href="http://southend.gumtree.com/southend/72/5229872.html">Southend Critical Mass</a> for the first time this evening. The photo is actually from the 16-odd mile bike ride I went on yesterday.</p><p>They're held on the second Friday of every month, starting at 6pm at the top of the High Street. I hadn't been able to go previously, because before I had my transplant I was always on dialysis at the time they were taking place.</p><p>No-one <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340471.html">got arrested</a> this time, but the police showed up at the start and asked what our route would be. No-one knew, that being part of the point of a <a href="http://www.critical-mass.org/">Critical Mass</a>. Having seen the number of people present, they decided it wasn't worth them following us round.</p><p>However, after riding up and down the seafront, we attracted the attention of another unit, who stopped us as we came off the sea front then followed us to the end of the ride without further inteference.</p><p>Having completed the critical mass, my dad then got on a train to take part in a bike ride from <a href="http://streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=528347&amp;y=179839&amp;z=1&amp;sv=528347,179839&amp;st=4&amp;ar=Y&amp;mapp=newmap.srf&amp;searchp=newsearch.srf">Hyde Park Corner</a> to <a href="http://streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=533160&amp;y=103240&amp;z=5&amp;sv=533160,103240&amp;st=4&amp;ar=Y&amp;mapp=newmap.srf&amp;searchp=newsearch.srf">Brighton</a>, starting at midnight. I knew <a href="http://bikereader.com/forum/index.php?topic=19126.0">he was mad</a> already though.<br /> </p> 
    1267                 </div><p class="date"> 
    1268 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/dez/entry/critical-mass">11 August, 2006 11:49 PM</a> 
    1269 </p> 
    1270 </div> 
    1271 </div> 
    1272  
    1273  
    1274  
    1275 </div> 
    1276 </div> 
    1277 <div class="box"> 
    1278 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3></div> 
    1279 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1280 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/stringfellow.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1281  
    1282  
    1283 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1284 <h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=219">$Elvis has left the $building!</a></h4> 
    1285 <div class="entry"> 
    1286 <p>$Elvis = “The thorn”;</p> 
    1287 <p>$building = “my foot”</p> 
    1288 <p>yes I know its sad, pipe down.</p><p class="date"> 
    1289 <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=219">by steve at 11 August, 2006 01:17 PM</a> 
    1290 </p> 
    1291 </div> 
    1292 </div> 
    1293  
    1294  
    1295 </div> 
    1296 </div> 
    1297  
    1298 </div> 
    1299 <div class="daygroup"> 
    1300 <h2>August 10, 2006</h2> 
    1301  
    1302 <div class="box"> 
    1303 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress" title="Tobeon.co.uk">Tom Bradley (tobeon)</a></h3></div> 
    1304 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1305 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/tobeon.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1306  
    1307  
    1308 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1309 <h4><a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=439">Missed a shift already!</a></h4> 
    1310 <div class="entry"> 
    1311 <p>Well I have started working in McDonald’s and I have already missed a shift! D’oh!</p> 
    1312 <p>My first shift was yesterday night and it wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting, although I am painfully slow and confused I am sure I will get the hang of it! Being constantly busy doing things means that time goes pretty quickly (or at least it did last night) I managed to miss a shift tonight seeing as I didn’t know about it (I called this morning to try to find out when my next shift was but couldn’t get an answer and I couldn’t call again until I finished my day-job!) I am working there tomorrow though.</p> 
    1313 <p class="c3"><a title="Wash" class="imagelink" href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/wash03.jpg"><img width="90" height="112" align="left" alt="Wash" id="image440" src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/wash03.thumbnail.jpg" name="image440" /></a>What else has been happening? Well I got <a href="http://confused04.wordpress.com/2006/08/04/yey/">Jay</a> a hamster called Wash as an early birthday present and he is very kawaii (and very lazy) he occasionally gets on the wheel but then after a think usually decides against it and just goes back to bed
.<br /> 
    1314 <span class="c2"><span class="c2"><span class="c2"><em>“Whenever I feel the urge to exercise I lie down until it goes away.”<br /></em><span class="c1">(hehe I like that quote)</span></span></span></span></p> 
    1315 <p class="c4"><span class="c2">We all (Me <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/auto_links/klogs/?kw=jay&amp;rl=http://confused04.wordpress.com/" title="http://confused04.wordpress.com/" id="al_11" name="al_11">Jay</a> Jon Nick &amp; Nick) went to Swansea to take a look at our new house (I will post piccys when I get them) it isn’t much compared to our old house but it is still going t be great living with everyone <img src="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /></span></p> 
    1316 <p class="c4">Jay and I went back down on Monday (after my McDonald’s unpaid orientation) we spent the the time painting our new room, moving the bed to our new room, drinking a pint and eating a chicken burger. Plus we spent some time dealing with the confusion of finding 3 rucksacks in our house! eep! Turned out the previous tenants had just come back from a UK road trip and were crashing there for the night because they did not think anyone was living there yet! Luckily they weren’t axe wielding maniacs like I first thought when I saw the bags (and they did move the mattress upstairs Yay!)</p> 
    1317 <p class="c3">Anyways I better go off to bed now as I have about 12 hours of work to do tomorrow!</p> 
    1318 <p class="c3"></p><p class="date"> 
    1319 <a href="http://www.tobeon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=439">by Tobeon at 10 August, 2006 10:22 PM</a> 
    1320 </p> 
    1321 </div> 
    1322 </div> 
    1323  
    1324  
    1325  
    1326 </div> 
    1327 </div> 
    1328 <div class="box"> 
    1329 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/" title="Der Blog">Peter Berry (pwb)</a></h3></div> 
    1330 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1331 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/pwb.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1332  
    1333  
    1334 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1335 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/qotd-iii">QOTD III</a></h4> 
    1336 <div class="entry"> 
    1337 <div> 
    1338                 <blockquote><p>If this is a good idea now, then why won't it still be a good idea in a year? A decade? After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?) Until they handcuff us all nude to our seats and dart us with tranquilizers, there will always be the possibility that a passenger will do something naughty on a plane (even then, who knows how much semtex and roofing nails a bad guy could hide in his colon?).</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/10877418/british_aviation_ban.html" title="Cory Doctorow on the ban on hand luggage on UK flights">Cory Doctorow</a> (from <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/">Boing Boing</a>) on the recent ban on hand luggage on UK flights. I'm glad I didn't book my flight for any later or I'd have had to leave half my luggage behind!</p> 
    1339                 </div><p class="date"> 
    1340 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/pwb/entry/qotd-iii">10 August, 2006 04:59 PM</a> 
    1341 </p> 
    1342 </div> 
    1343 </div> 
    1344  
    1345  
    1346  
    1347 </div> 
    1348 </div> 
    1349 <div class="box"> 
    1350 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net" title="stringfellow's thread">Steve Pike (stringfellow)</a></h3></div> 
    1351 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1352 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/stringfellow.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1353  
    1354  
    1355 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1356 <h4><a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=218">Work Timers
</a></h4> 
    1357 <div class="entry"> 
    1358 <p><a target="_blank" href="http://gimbo.org.uk/software/jobtimer/jobtimer.py">Inspired</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://gimbo.org.uk">Gimbo</a> (though his is much more
 complete - slightly different task though), a little script to help me keep track of jobs. Currently I’m doing two - one for my tutor, Matt (some coding), and another for my Dad’s boss (a website). Unfortunately I have a habit of gettign distracted. Not a problem anymore! I just issue a quick command on my dashboard terminal and off it goes, start, stop, start, stop all day long. Another quick command adds up all the times and tells me the total, and how much I’m owed if I give it an (optional) hourly rate.</p> 
    1359 <p>Woo!</p> 
    1360 <p><a target="_blank" href="http://synfinity.net/code/timer/timerit.py">timerit.py</a> (the business)</p> 
    1361 <p><a target="_blank" href="http://synfinity.net/code/timer/timesum.py">timesum.py</a> (the adder upper.)</p> 
    1362 <p>Horrid code, whatever, I don’t care. I might eventually Cocoa it as Dad says this might be useful for him at work
 and I might even get paid! Wooo! Beats actually DOING the work, huh?! (How do I use it to time how long I’m making it though?)</p><p class="date"> 
    1363 <a href="http://blog.synfinity.net/?p=218">by steve at 10 August, 2006 12:20 AM</a> 
    1364 </p> 
    1365 </div> 
    1366 </div> 
    1367  
    1368  
    1369 </div> 
    1370 </div> 
    1371  
    1372 </div> 
    1373 <div class="daygroup"> 
    1374 <h2>August 09, 2006</h2> 
    1375  
    1376 <div class="box"> 
    1377 <div class="boxhead"><h3><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/" title="Thoughts of an Educated Fool">Sean Handley (talyn256)</a></h3></div> 
    1378 <div class="boxcontent"> 
    1379 <img class="emblem" src="/pictures/people/talyn256.png" width="" height="" alt="" /> 
    1380  
    1381  
    1382 <div class="entrygroup"> 
    1383 <h4><a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/captain-seans-21st-birthday-adventure">Captain Sean's 21st Birthday Adventure</a></h4> 
    1384 <div class="entry"> 
    1385 <p><a href="http://www.sucs.org/~talyn256/piratebanner.GIF"><img src="http://www.sucs.org/~talyn256/piratebanner.GIF" border="0" width="219" height="180" alt="image defies description" /></a></p> 
    1386 <p>(click to view the invitation)</p><p class="date"> 
    1387 <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/talyn256/entry/captain-seans-21st-birthday-adventure">by Sean Handley at 09 August, 2006 02:30 PM</a> 
    1388 </p> 
    1389 </div> 
    1390 </div> 
    1391  
    1392  
    1393 </div> 
    1394 </div> 
    1395  
    1396 </div> 
    1397  
     1698                </div>                  </div> 
     1699                        <p class="date"> 
     1700                        <a href="http://sucs.org/blogs/jo/entry/stealth-stress">22 August, 2006 04:53 PM</a> 
     1701                        </p> 
     1702                </div> 
     1703        </div> 
     1704        <div class="hollowfoot"><div><div></div></div></div> 
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    2 The Swansea University Computer Society provides the following main services to its members. 
    3  
    4 <dl> 
    5 <dt><a href="https://sucs.org/webmail/">Electronic Mail</a></dt> 
    6 <dd>Fed up of being a number? Each society member gets an email address of the form <em>membername</em>@sucs.org. You can access this <a href="https://sucs.org/webmail/">via the web</a> or from mail clients supporting pop3 or imap (that's most of them). 
    7 <p>Learn more about <a href="/Help/SUCS Services/Accessing your email">society e-mail</a> 
    8  
    9 </p></dd><dt>Additional Disk Space</dt> 
    10 <dd>Society members have access to additional disk space, either from the  
    11 society machines or by WebDAV as a network folder on the LIS Windows 
    12 machines, or your home system. 
    13 <p>Learn more about <a href="/Help/SUCS Services/Using WebDAV">accessing disk space</a> 
    14 </p></dd> 
    15  
    16 <dt><a href="/Services/Library">Reference Library</a></dt> 
    17 <dd>The computer society has its own small library of fifty bought and donatedbooks available to members of the society. 
    18 <p>Learn more about <a href="/Services/Library">the books available</a> 
    19 </p></dd> 
    20  
    21 <dt><a href="/Services/Room">Computer Room</a></dt> 
    22 <dd>The society has its own small room underneath the union building which 
    23 has Linux desktop systems available to members twenty four hours a day, as 
    24 well as connection points for personal laptops. Use of the room is governed by  
    25 <a href="/Info/Room Rules">the room rules</a>. In particular please note 
    26 that laptops must be registered with the society to be used so that anyone misusing the system can be identified and disciplined. University computing regulations also apply at all times. 
    27 <p>Learn more about <a href="/Info/Room Rules">the room usage rules</a></p></dd> 
    28  
    29 <dt>Personal Webspace</dt> 
    30 <dd>If you create and place files in a public_html folder they will be 
    31 visible on the web at http://sucs.org/~<em>username</em>. The index or 
    32 default web page is called &quot;index.html&quot;. For the more adventurous web 
    33 designers, <a href="http://php.net/">PHP scripting</a> and <a href="http://postgresql.org">PostgreSQL databases</a> are available.</dd><dt><br /></dt> 
    34  
    35 <dt><a href="/Help/Program Advisory">Program Advisory</a></dt> 
    36 <dd>Assistance with computing related problems provided by members to 
    37 members. If you need help or can provide help see  
    38 <a href="/Help/Program Advisory">the advisory page</a>.</dd><dt><br /></dt> 
    39  
    40 <dt>Web Proxy</dt> 
    41 <dd>The society operates a caching web proxy for the machines in the room 
    42 and any laptops using the laptop ports. Use of the proxy is compulsory and 
    43 web access is not available by other means.  
    44 <p>The proxy is <b>platinum.sucs.org:3128</b></p></dd> 
    45  
    46 <dt><a href="/Services/Desktop on Demand">Desktop On Demand</a></dt> 
    47 <dd>Access a computer society Linux desktop anywhere that has 
    48 a web browser supporting java. 
    49 <p>Learn more about <a href="/Help/SUCS Services/Using Desktop on Demand">Desktop on Demand</a></p></dd> 
    50  
    51 <dt><a href="/mailman/listinfo">Mailing lists</a></dt> 
    52 <dd>SUCS provides student societies with mailing lists which they can use to make announcements or chat. 
    53 <p>Learn about <a href="/Help/SUCS Services/Using mailing lists">subscribing to and using mailing lists</a> and <a href="/Help/SUCS Services/Administering a mailing list">administering them</a></p></dd> 
    54  
    55 <dt><a href="/Services/Milliways">Milliways</a></dt> 
    56 <dd>SUCS has its own homebrewed chat system called Milliways. 
    57 <p>Learn more about <a href="/Help/SUCS Services/Using Milliways">Milliways</a></p></dd> 
    58  
    59 <dt>Jabber server</dt> 
    60 <dd>Fed up with MSN spam? Switch to <a href="http://www.jabber.org/">Jabber</a> instead. To help you in the transition you can also log into MSN via the jabber server, which is at <strong>msn.sucs.org</strong>. 
    61 <p>Learn more about <a href="/Help/SUCS Services/Jabber Server HOWTO">Jabber</a></p></dd> 
    62 </dl> 
    63  
    64 <hr /> 
    65 SUCS would like to thank <a href="http://sucs.org/~rohan">Steve 
    66 Whitehouse</a>, <a href="http://sucs.org/~rhys">Rhys Jones</a>, <a href="http://sucs.org/~dez">Denis Walker</a> 
    67 and Alan Cox for their contribution to these Help pages. 
     1 The Swansea University Computer Society provides the following main services to its members.  <dl> <dt><a href="https://sucs.org/webmail/">Electronic Mail</a></dt> <dd>Fed up of being a number? Each society member gets an email address of the form <em>membername</em>@sucs.org. You can access this <a href="https://sucs.org/webmail/">via the web</a> or from mail clients supporting pop3 or imap (that&#39;s most of them). <p>Learn more about <a href="../../Help/SUCS%20Services/Accessing%20your%20email">society e-mail</a>  </p></dd><dt>Additional Disk Space</dt> <dd>Society members have access to additional disk space, either from the  society machines or by WebDAV as a network folder on the LIS Windows machines, or your home system. <p>Learn more about <a href="../../Help/SUCS%20Services/Using%20WebDAV">accessing disk space</a> </p></dd>  <dt><a href="../../Services/Library">Reference Library</a></dt> <dd>The computer society has its own small library of fifty bought and donatedbooks available to members of the society. <p>Learn more about <a href="../../Services/Library">the books available</a> </p></dd>  <dt><a href="../../Services/Room">Computer Room</a></dt> <dd>The society has its own small room underneath the union building which has Linux desktop systems available to members twenty four hours a day, as well as connection points for personal laptops. Use of the room is governed by  <a href="../../Info/Room%20Rules">the room rules</a>. In particular please note that laptops must be registered with the society to be used so that anyone misusing the system can be identified and disciplined. University computing regulations also apply at all times. <p>Learn more about <a href="../../Info/Room%20Rules">the room usage rules</a></p></dd>  <dt>Personal Webspace</dt> <dd>If you create and place files in a public_html folder they will be visible on the web at http://sucs.org/~<em>username</em>. The index or default web page is called &quot;index.html&quot;. For the more adventurous web designers, <a href="http://php.net/">PHP scripting</a> and <a href="http://postgresql.org">PostgreSQL databases</a> are available.</dd><dt><br /></dt>  <dt><a href="../../Help/Program%20Advisory">Program Advisory</a></dt> <dd>Assistance with computing related problems provided by members to members. If you need help or can provide help see  <a href="../../Help/Program%20Advisory">the advisory page</a>.</dd><dt><br /></dt>  <dt>Web Proxy</dt> <dd>The society operates a caching web proxy for the machines in the room and any laptops using the laptop ports. Use of the proxy is compulsory and web access is not available by other means.  <p>The proxy is <strong>platinum.sucs.org:3128</strong></p></dd>  <dt><a href="../../Services/Desktop%20on%20Demand">Desktop On Demand</a></dt> <dd>Access a computer society Linux desktop anywhere that has a web browser supporting java. <p>Learn more about <a href="../../Help/SUCS%20Services/Using%20Desktop%20on%20Demand">Desktop on Demand</a></p></dd>  <dt><a href="../../mailman/listinfo">Mailing lists</a></dt> <dd>SUCS provides student societies with mailing lists which they can use to make announcements or chat. <p>Learn about <a href="../../Help/SUCS%20Services/Using%20mailing%20lists">subscribing to and using mailing lists</a> and <a href="../../Help/SUCS%20Services/Administering%20a%20mailing%20list">administering them</a></p></dd>  <dt><a href="../../Services/Milliways">Milliways</a></dt> <dd>SUCS has its own homebrewed chat system called Milliways. <p>Learn more about <a href="../../Help/SUCS%20Services/Using%20Milliways">Milliways</a></p></dd>  <dt>Jabber server</dt> <dd>Fed up with MSN spam? Switch to <a href="http://www.jabber.org/">Jabber</a> instead. To help you in the transition you can also log into MSN via the jabber server, which is at <strong>msn.sucs.org</strong>. <p>Learn more about <a href="../../Help/SUCS%20Services/Jabber%20Server%20HOWTO">Jabber</a></p></dd> </dl>  <hr /> SUCS would like to thank <a href="http://sucs.org/~rohan">Steve Whitehouse</a>, <a href="http://sucs.org/~rhys">Rhys Jones</a>, <a href="http://sucs.org/~dez">Denis Walker</a> and Alan Cox for their contribution to these Help pages.  

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    1 <p>When you join a society that is a member of SUCS, you will quite likely have given them your email address so they can email you. The system SUCS provides to societies to send email to their members is called <em>mailman</em>. Here is a brief guide to using mailman's web interface to change your preferences, using the mailing list <em>jokes</em> as an example. You can apply these principles to other mailing lists that you may be (or want to be) subscribed to.</p> 
    2  
    3 <p>Note: there are two general methods for using mailing lists: the web interface and the email interface. To get help on the email interface, send an email to (for example) <a href="mailto:jokes-request@sucs.org" title="jokes-request@sucs.org">jokes-request@sucs.org</a> with the word 'help' in the subject or body.</p> 
    4  
    5 <h3>Subscribing to lists</h3> 
    6  
    7 <p>To subscribe to the <em>jokes</em> mailing list, go to <a href="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes" target="_blank" title="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes">http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes</a>. On this page is a description of the list, a form for subscribing, and (for existing members) forms for seeing the members list and changing your list options. Enter the email address you want mail from the list to be sent to. If you want, you can supply your name (so people looking at the members list know who you are), and you can pick a password. If you don't pick a password, mailman will pick one for you, and email it to you.</p> 
    8  
    9 <p><span style="color: red;">WARNING</span>: Do not use an important password for the list, because it will be emailed to you periodically as a reminder, in clear text.</p> 
    10  
    11 <p>You can also subscribe by sending an email to (e.g.) <a href="mailto:jokes-subscribe@sucs.org" title="jokes-subscribe@sucs.org">jokes-subscribe@sucs.org</a>. You will be sent back an email asking you to confirm you want to subscribe. Simply reply to the email, keeping the subject intact (though a Re: at the start is OK), or type the URL (web address) it gives you into a web browser.</p> 
    12  
    13 <h3>Changing your preferences</h3> 
    14  
    15 <p>Mailman has lots of options for things like digest mode (where you receive all the day's email in one big 'digest' instead of as individual emails - this is particularly handy if the list sees a lot of traffic) and whether you want to receive copies of your own emails to the list. To change these preferences, enter your email address in the box at the very bottom of the list's info page (<a href="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes" title="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes">http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes</a> for the <em>jokes</em> list) and click on the button next to it. This sends you to a page with lots of options that you can leave alone or change as you wish.</p> 
    16  
    17 <h3>Sending messages to the list</h3> 
    18  
    19 <p>You can send a message to everyone subscribed to the list simply by sending an email from the address you subscribed with to (e.g.) <a href="mailto:jokes@sucs.org" title="jokes@sucs.org">jokes@sucs.org</a>.</p> 
    20  
    21 <p>Note: Some mailing lists are 'announcement' lists (usually called something like <em>jokes-announce</em>).  You can still send mail to these lists, but they have to be approved by a <em>moderator</em>, a person who decides if an email is suitable for the list or not.</p> 
    22  
    23 <h3>Unsubscribing from lists</h3> 
    24  
    25 <p>To unsubscribe from a list you don't want to get mail from (or send mail to) anymore, log in to your preferences page for that list. On the following page there is a button you can click on to unsubscribe. It's easy to click on this by mistake, so the form makes you click on the checkbox below it first.</p> 
    26  
    27 <p>Alternatively, you can send mail to (e.g.) <a href="mailto:jokes-unsubscribe@sucs.org" title="jokes-unsubscribe@sucs.org">jokes-unsubscribe@sucs.org</a>. You will be sent back an email asking you to confirm you want to unsubscribe. Simply reply to the email, keeping the subject intact (though a Re: at the start is OK), or type the URL (web address) it gives you into a web browser.</p> 
     1<p>When you join a society that is a member of SUCS, you will quite likely have given them your email address so they can email you. The system SUCS provides to societies to send email to their members is called <em>mailman</em>. Here is a brief guide to using mailman&#39;s web interface to change your preferences, using the mailing list <em>jokes</em> as an example. You can apply these principles to other mailing lists that you may be (or want to be) subscribed to.</p>  <p>Note: there are two general methods for using mailing lists: the web interface and the email interface. To get help on the email interface, send an email to (for example) <a href="mailto:jokes-request@sucs.org" title="jokes-request@sucs.org">jokes-request@sucs.org</a> with the word &#39;help&#39; in the subject or body.</p>  <h3>Subscribing to lists</h3>  <p>To subscribe to the <em>jokes</em> mailing list, go to <a href="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes" target="_blank" title="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes">http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes</a>. On this page is a description of the list, a form for subscribing, and (for existing members) forms for seeing the members list and changing your list options. Enter the email address you want mail from the list to be sent to. If you want, you can supply your name (so people looking at the members list know who you are), and you can pick a password. If you don&#39;t pick a password, mailman will pick one for you, and email it to you.</p>  <p><span style="color: red">WARNING</span>: Do not use an important password for the list, because it will be emailed to you periodically as a reminder, in clear text.</p>  <p>You can also subscribe by sending an email to (e.g.) <a href="mailto:jokes-subscribe@sucs.org" title="jokes-subscribe@sucs.org">jokes-subscribe@sucs.org</a>. You will be sent back an email asking you to confirm you want to subscribe. Simply reply to the email, keeping the subject intact (though a Re: at the start is OK), or type the URL (web address) it gives you into a web browser.</p>  <h3>Changing your preferences</h3>  <p>Mailman has lots of options for things like digest mode (where you receive all the day&#39;s email in one big &#39;digest&#39; instead of as individual emails - this is particularly handy if the list sees a lot of traffic) and whether you want to receive copies of your own emails to the list. To change these preferences, enter your email address in the box at the very bottom of the list&#39;s info page (<a href="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes" title="http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes">http://www.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/jokes</a> for the <em>jokes</em> list) and click on the button next to it. This sends you to a page with lots of options that you can leave alone or change as you wish.</p>  <h3>Sending messages to the list</h3>  <p>You can send a message to everyone subscribed to the list simply by sending an email from the address you subscribed with to (e.g.) <a href="mailto:jokes@sucs.org" title="jokes@sucs.org">jokes@sucs.org</a>.</p>  <p>Note: Some mailing lists are &#39;announcement&#39; lists (usually called something like <em>jokes-announce</em>).  You can still send mail to these lists, but they have to be approved by a <em>moderator</em>, a person who decides if an email is suitable for the list or not.</p>  <h3>Unsubscribing from lists</h3>  <p>To unsubscribe from a list you don&#39;t want to get mail from (or send mail to) anymore, log in to your preferences page for that list. On the following page there is a button you can click on to unsubscribe. It&#39;s easy to click on this by mistake, so the form makes you click on the checkbox below it first.</p>  <p>Alternatively, you can send mail to (e.g.) <a href="mailto:jokes-unsubscribe@sucs.org" title="jokes-unsubscribe@sucs.org">jokes-unsubscribe@sucs.org</a>. You will be sent back an email asking you to confirm you want to unsubscribe. Simply reply to the email, keeping the subject intact (though a Re: at the start is OK), or type the URL (web address) it gives you into a web browser.</p> 

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