Tomorrow, July 28 is international System Administrator Appreciation Day. Please show your love for us poorly appreciated souls. Cash, vehicles, houses and other large gifts are much appreciated. (and as donations may even be tax deductible!)
Be sure to seek out creative ways to make use of your system adminstrator here.
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I had the extreme privilege of seeing Chris Chameleon perform last night at the new Tings an Times in Hatfield.

A great experience. Excellent food, cold beer, fantastic music.
Chris Chameleon is an entertainer like no other.
He is a truly talented person and his willingness to share his gift is a privilege to us all.
I’ll have some [...]

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The Virgin Money website is not as Firefox friendly as they claim.
When trying to apply for their credit card, I found their validations for your personal details are really badly broken.
See the screenshot:

Their site requirements states:
We support any browser with SSL 2.0; SSL 3.0 and a 128 bit cipher, but our site is best viewed [...]

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Visited the 5FM website today, not sure why. I think I was looking for gig information for 52weeks.
Anyway, it turns out they’ve revamped their site.

Such a pity that with the wasted right hand side it’s only half a site…
Then again, 5FM is really only half a radio station nowadays anyway.
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So I was duly informed that my captcha to prevent comment spam was not working.
It’s fixed now.
Give it a bash – leave a comment.

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My server has been down for just under a week now. Included in this downtime was all my personal email, my GTD application and both my weblogs, as well as my ability to run a quick bittorrent download to the server.
In short it has been hell.
But strangely enough the part that I [...]

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Ashton Nyte’s prima donna performance on Saturday night at the Sun to Moon festival at Zeplins will be remembered for a long time.
Basically, with a shit attitude like that he can go to hell. His microphone stand and guitar abuse was completely unnecessary and childish.
I think I’ll be switching back to Simon and Garfunkel’s [...]

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