Late nights in London
I read with interest Adrian Kennard's blog post about late nights in London. If he thinks he's got it bad, he should try living in Oxford - which is, as I on...
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Blocking executable files (even buried inside ZIPs) in Exim
One of the handful of family members I host e-mail for had a narrow escape the other day, just about managing to avoid opening an .exe file buried inside a Z...
Sometimes, you just don’t want to be right
It's been a few years since I "enjoyed" writing code to mangle Microsoft Office documents, but I've been getting back into such things at work lately. My tea...
Call blockers
Thanks to the magic of VoIP (worth a string of blog posts in its own right), I haven't had a real landline phone in years. But many traditionalists, notably ...
ZipCar
As I don't drive to work, or particularly regularly for anything else, I recently decided to scrap my ageing Peugeot 106 and try not owning a car once again....
New batteries for the Desire S
I'm still running my HTC Desire S - with the original two year contract now long since paid off, I'm hoping to wring a few more years out of it on pay as you...
Google and IPv6 e-mail
Update: The change described below does not seem to have reliably stopped Google from bouncing my e-mails. Time to ask them what they're doing... I obviously...
TV licensing are misleading and threatening
I got a letter this morning: This made me angry for a number of reasons. I have not received any previous letters, so either they're lying to me or such let...
Sysadmin by point and click
I promised an update on Google Apps some time ago. This week, we finally flipped the e-mail for Saint Columba's over to Google Apps hosted mail. Combined wit...
APT and HTTP redirects
Recently, I was issued with a rather nice Thinkpad X230 for my new work laptop. Not being a huge fan of Windows 8, I decided to go for Debian as my operating...