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In these days of digital memories, it’s important to have a proper backup solution for your family. So I’ve invested in a Dlink DNS-323 (a network storage device) and a couple of 500GB hard drives. Plugged it into my network, turned it on, and formatted the drives as RAID 1, which gives me 498GB of… Continue reading Backup solution

Tuesday night, my colleagues and I spent the evening at the Magic Castle as a treat for hitting a recent milestone. It was a great night out. I arrived at about 6.30 after braving the rush hour traffic (there’s really no good way to get there quickly from my workplace – the 405 and 101… Continue reading A night at the Magic Castle

Eating out on expenses three days this week. Put a coat of varnish on my cabinet boards tonight. Kind of annoyed that libgtkglextmm is missing from gutsy packages.

I went ahead and bought an XO laptop, aka “One Laptop Per Child”. It’s just the job for kids, and hopefully will bring about some real change in the developing world. It is also just the thing for mini-Elbeno as he grows up – built sturdy but lightweight, with rubberised keys and nifty software. Python,… Continue reading OLPC

As a reward for hitting a major milestone recently (without crunch, woot), the company is taking my team to the Magic Castle. A fortnight tomorrow night we’ll be putting on our glad rags and heading up to Hollywood for a night of wonderment!

Friday night was the wrap party for the latest game we put out, so after a pre-party relaxation hour we headed down to Santa Monica for an evening of socialising. The usual snack fare and open bar was there; also karaoke. This was run by a couple of girls who I guess have a regular… Continue reading Wrap party

Well, I’ve had a few emails and IMs from friends and family asking if we were OK and everything, what with the coverage that the wildfires seem to be getting. So let me put your minds at rest and say that the fires are not really near us. That’s not to say that they haven’t… Continue reading Wildfires in Socal again

I read that Jammie Thomas has appealed against the punishment (a $220,000 fine) in her case vs. Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc. It seems to me there is a simple way to compute the actual damages in this case: simply do the… Continue reading Excessive damages

So, not only did the site get severely overloaded the first couple of days it was up (never saw that one coming!), but they appear to have hired a 13 year-old myspace aficionado to design the thing. Honestly, life’s too short to waste time on this. I think I have all the music I’ll need… Continue reading In Rainbows

It’s come to my attention that it’s possible for my LJ readers to leave comments on the syndicated LJ (and unfortunately there seems to be no way to turn off that commenting ability, unless greatbiggary can do it). Be aware that these comments don’t reach me on this site itself. You’re in an orphaned comment… Continue reading Livejournal syndication comments