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Moving

Yes all rumours are true, we are moving.
Here’s the stuff packed into boxes and I’m soon to dash off to pick up the van. We take the ferry tomorrow (Thursday), return on Friday to drop off van and pick up car and kids to return for good on Saturday.
Fun(!)
On top of that…as I’ve mentioned in [...]

Followup on H.R. 6320 - Subtitles in Internet Videos

Here’s a wee follow up on my previous post about the legalisation in USA - the HR 6320 bill.
Here’s one damned good reason why that bill’s timing is vital for us…
The Family Guy series will be online videos based - you’re not going to get it on TV. You’ll get it over the Internet. And [...]

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H.R. 6320 - Subtitles in Internet Videos

There’s a new legislation that have been introduced in USA which was introduced by Edward Markey and is called the (D-MA) “21st Century COmmunications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008″ H.R. 6320: To ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to emerging Internet Protocol-based communication and video programming technologies in the 21st Century.
I’ll point out [...]

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Job Advert: Slave needed

Hello. Haven’t posted much lately as have been really swamped by the amount of stuff I am doing at the moment such as:

learning Python
playing with Xen

only to scrap it and switch to KVM

While at the same time running VirtualBox 1.6*
Playing with Apache2 configuration as well as:

Dealing with multiple sites - internal only, for work using [...]

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The Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby in BSL

It’s done by zombiecoterie who also have a blog called The Coterie of Zombies
I love the Beatles and this song is actually one of my favourite Beatles song so it was good to see a BSL version, which made it all the better for me. A big thanks to zombiecoterie for doing it.
zombiecoterie have done [...]

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geek poll - what do you have open?

Ooohh a geek poll! Must take part! It’s working hours for me, so I have a lot open:

firefox

window 1: 7 tabs
window 2: 6 tabs

opera

64 tabs[1]

text editor (gedit)

3 HTML
1 bash script

terminator[2]

6 panes
5 ssh to debian/ubuntu servers scattered across UK
1 unused

gnome terminal[3]

3 windows
2 ssh to my webserver (2 accounts)
1 just finished running sudo apt-get install terminator

eog

this was [...]

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My Office

Need I say more…?

My early years

My mum emailed me this recently and I thought I’ll put it up. It was certainly interesting to read about my early life of which I have very very vague and unexplained memories - so this does answer some of the questions I’ve got with what I remember. Before you start, for those that did [...]

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Perfecting the art of being deaf

Reading this The Sickness of Deaf Awareness Week: Imagine A World Without Sound at Grumpy Old Deafies…I started to comment…but it became a blog post and so is trackbacked to the site as a comment instead.
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Imagine a world of silence?
Wonderful! It’s so peaceful and I don’t have to listen to the wife’s nagging anymore!
Nor do [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is OUT NOW!

Get it while it’s hot Just click on image above.
Slow broadband? Want printed free CD’s? Get it posted to you.
And here’s a damn good reason why I use Ubuntu…
Many thanks to all the people that have done a lot of work on the latest Ubuntu release, they are simply just too many to name, [...]

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