Conventions, cycling and knitting, oh my!

I have got to get myself back into the habit of posting about things that aren’t Unix scripting issues. Although the good news is that I now know much more about scripting than I used to and have a good idea of what I’m doing and what I need to learn. Yay?
I’ve been thinking about [...]

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Convention: The Aftermath

I am writing this on the train with the intention of posting when I get Internet access. But right now I need to do things to keep myself awake so that I get off the train at the correct station. Hence a blog post and then possibly some knitting. Definitely no book, absolutely no “just [...]

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Convention: Day 4

The convention is over and I’m at the Dead Dog party. That is not a hooray thing But I will try to stay awake as long as possible.
It’s been a busy day, this is the first time that I’ve not been in a programming item since 9am this morning. I had originally had [...]

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Convention: Day 3

*flump*
About an hour ago I suddenly realised that I was shattered and couldn’t work out why. Then I realised that I’d either been attending panels, talking on panels or stewarding since 10am and it was now 6.30pm. In other words, I’d been actively doing stuff for longer than an average working day.
And I wondered why [...]

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Convention: Day 2

So far, Redemption is brilliant fun As I was here this morning, I volunteered to help sort out the charity bookstall which was a great time, mainly because of the girls that I was working with. Then I registered (so now I have a name badge, which makes life much easier), ate some [...]

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Convention: Day 1

Arrived in Coventry a couple of hours ago and I’m settled into my room with paranoidangel42. We have a slight problem in that they just (yesterday) replaced all the locks on the doors and the new keys don’t work very well, but it’s not completely insurmountable. We’ll just have to make sure that one of [...]

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Security clearance, Redemption and rugby, oh my!

Oracle Reports is a thing of pure, unadulterated evil *sigh*
Apparently I need a certificate of some kind to say that I’m not a criminal in the UK for my security clearance for the semi-government job that I’ve been doing for three months. A little behind there. Anyone know anything about how I go about applying [...]

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A post of positive things

So today had a quality of disasterousness to it and my wrists are not happy about me falling on the ice on Saturday and then spending today typing, so I’m doing a ‘positive things’ post.
1) I’ve got a short story with the words ‘The End’ on it. Still needs beta-ing, and it`s not Sensible Man, [...]

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Coming to England

I have just purchased my tickets – I will be flying into Heathrow on 18th Feb and leaving on 3rd March. Woo-hoo!
Redemption 09, here I come.
And look out London yarn stores.
Heh.
Now I need to book the time with work and all is sorted. Yay!

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Orbital: The Convention Report

So this is where I attempt to remember a terrific weekend, what happened and make some intelligent comments on it. Hmm.

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