Adventures In Questions

I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle. - Arthur Dent

Bargain of the Week

One of the problems with my current car (a 1992, 150k mile Mercedes 190E) is that the radio won’t pick up FM, which renders all the various FM transmitters I have for iPods useless. I’ve been looking for a cassette adapter for a little while and on Saturday I saw one in Tesco for £6.97. Considering Maplin in Worcester didn’t seem to sell them and PC World sell them for a ludicrous £14.99, the Tesco price seemed like a great deal.

However, I’ve just done a quick search on Google Product Search (sidenote: which is a terrible name compared to its previous name, Froogle) and I apparently could have got one for 79p. Damn.

Colophon

A colophon either seems to be defined as "a publisher's or printer's distinctive emblem, used as an identifying device on its books and other works." or "an ancient city in Asia Minor: one of the 12 Ionian cities banded together in the 8th century b.c. : largely depopulated in 286 b.c.". A lot of people seem to use colophon as a posh word for "About Me".

Anyway, with that in mind, my name is Alex and I write here about stuff that interests me. Sometimes I write a lot and sometimes I write just a little. One thing I don't know how to write is a bloody colophon...

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May 13th 2008
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…and we’re back

Ok, so my site has been offline a little while. I fell out with my host when it proved to be a pain the the arse to set up a regular payment via PayPal and couldn't be bothered to find another one in the short term. So for now, this ...
November 18th 2007
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Free to a Good Home (plus P&P)

Kate and I are in the process of buying a house, so we're having a good clearout. We've got a load of books and videos to get rid of, so any of the following are free to a good home if you cover the P&P or come and collect. Leave ...
October 1st 2007
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Happy 25th Birthday EPCOT Center

It used to be a running joke amongst various people I know that the inevitable answer to the question "Where did you go on holiday?" each summer would be "Walt Disney World". When we started going there were just the two theme parks, the Magic Kingdom and EPCOT Center. I ...
September 28th 2007
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Using Amazon S3 to back up multiple Subversion repositories

In work we use Subversion for version control and we are currently transitioning our backups onto Amazon S3. I was looking for a way to backup the Subversion repository to Amazon S3 when I came across Max Schöfmann's post-commit hook script. Each time a commit is performed it dumps ...
September 4th 2007
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Kids on Trains

You would imagine that the 20:52 train from Birmingham New Street to Ledbury would be a quiet train. That’s what I thought as I plonked myself down at a table seat. There was loads of room on the train. I could put my bag on the seat next to me ...

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