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Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
My Jura Impressa Z5 is working out very well. It’s amazing how something as simple as high quality coffee can improve one’s experience of life. The several cups per day of great coffee that this machine has been churning out … Continue reading
MythTV Stuff Ordered
After much dithering, I have finally ordered nearly all of the hardware needed to build our MythTV box, an open source equivalent of the TiVo, with which we had so much fun in the US. I’d been enamoured with the … Continue reading
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Gallery As Good As New
The upgrade from Gallery 1.x to 2.x was quite involved. As has happened before (and to my great chagrin), albums and photos whose titles, summaries and descriptions contained foreign letters like ‘ð’, ‘þ’ and ‘œ’, as well as accented letters … Continue reading
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Family Doctor
We reached an important milestone yesterday, namely finding a general practitioner with whom we’re happy. Our choice was complicated by the fact that neither Sarah nor I feel much affinity for allopathic medicine, instead prefering the homeopathic approach, which is … Continue reading
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Ruby/LDAP 0.9.3
I have just released Ruby/LDAP 0.9.3. This is mostly a bug-fix release. The changes from 0.9.2 are listed below: LDAP::Schema#names and LDAP::Schema#attr will now allow names with hyphens and/or underscores. A warning about @sasl_quiet when run in debug mode has … Continue reading
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