Month: September 2006

  • Controlling Spam

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    The comment spam on this blog has got to the stage where I felt I needed to do something about it. So I have just enabled the Akismet plugin. Lets see what happens, let me know if you see any weird behaviour!

  • Mozilla software really is cross-platform

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    So I have my ubuntu linux system up, running and online. So now the next challenge. How do you go about pulling across from WinXP your most important files, which for me are my email and bookmarks? Easy! If you’re like me and using mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox! And when I say easy, it really…

  • Well done Europe!

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    Congratulations to the European team on winning an unprecedented third Ryder Cup! And not just scraping it, but hammering the Americans 18½-9½ equalling the record points tally from 1999! There has not been a huge amount of coverage here in Spain, so had to follow it on the Beeb. Oh well!

  • Posting from Ubuntu!

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    Finally I have managed to get my ubuntu linux system connected to the internet, and here is the obligatory posting! In the end I bought an ADSL router which I was able to configure for both windoze and linux without too much hassle. This afternoon has been spent having fun exploring the repositories and installing…

  • Not Bad!

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    Reminds me a bit of David Beckham’s goal way back.

  • Gordon

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    The hurricane formerly known as Gordon got quite a bit of news over here during the last few days, and we actually saw some of it this morning for about half an hour as the wind picked up to quite a force. Galicia took the brunt as the storm headed north towards Ireland, with winds…