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India diary, day 6

In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Day six of our epic...

India diary, day 5

In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). I was quite ill tod...

Sipgate and the Zoom 5801 ATA

Following on from my initial foray into SIP a couple of weeks back, I ordered a Zoom 5801 ATA from Expansys, so I could hook my good old-fashioned cordless p...

The joys of shared houses…

Being an organised sort of person (and a sucker who can't say no), I tend to do a lot of the admin and paperwork for the house I share with a few friends. On...

Java programmers

I don't much care for Simon Willison's (or in this case, the person he's linking to's) implication that Java programmers are misguided fools in need of help ...

Slow outbound e-mail?

I'd noticed for years that sending outbound e-mail from Thunderbird to my server on port 587 took far longer than it should have - about six seconds of stari...