Sorry for the recent outages. My hosting provider upgraded a server and it took longer than expected to find all the things that were installed on the old server but were not on the new server. It seems that I’m the only one that uses them…
Blog was down for a few hours, comments and trackbacks have been hosed for a day or so. All seems fine now.
20 year’s ago I traveled with my dad and the remaining members of my grandfather’s unit to Normandy for the 40th anniversary celebrations. I was 17, around the same age that some of them were on the day. My grandfather, Frank Holgate (also ‘my F.’), survived the war but died from heart disease when I was far too young.
I’ve found the news reports of the 60th anniversary to be far more moving than I expected; possibly because I spent some time with these amazing people.
The one problem with building a dream flat from scratch (well, a shell) is that once you’re done, you’re done. There just isn’t anything that needs doing for a very long time. If you’re someone who enjoys the doing (to a point) then, although it’s nice to sit back and relax and appreciate what you’ve created for a while; the time eventually comes when you start getting itchy feet and want to be able to start crafting the next masterpiece…
OK, so who was the bright spark that decided that when I click on a folder at the root level of a drive Explorer goes off and scans the entire folder tree from that point down before expanding the one folder I’m interested in? More importantly, can I turn it off? Surely the most you really need to do when I click on I:\Blah is list the files and directories in Blah and do a lazy directory content check in the background to see if you need to put a + next to any of the directories in Blah… At present, on XP SP1 it seems that the directory check isn’t a background thing, so I have to wait for it to complete, and when the sub dirs contain many many files this can take too long…
Updated 1st February 2024 to fix broken links
Tell me about it.
This morning I was shaving and thinking how I was actually early enough to be able to walk to Bank Tube station rather than jumping on the tube at Old Street. It looked like a nice morning and I had lots of plans for the code I was going to write today. It’s a busy week, and I had spent an hour or so late on Sunday making sure I was in a position to hit the ground running.
Been a busy week, I meant to post this on The Day. I’ve been writing this stuff for just over a year now. I didn’t really know what to expect when I started, I just wanted a place to ramble on about this and that. During the year I’ve learned a few things about blogging….
I actually do do this for me more than for anyone else. I’ve found that I understand things more when I’ve written about them.
As Gavin pointed out in a comment yesterday, if you type “cure for rsi” into Google right now my hair-brained babblings about how drinking lots of water helps is top of the pile… If only I could do that with technical posts that would bring in work ;)
37 today.
Er, I blame him, him and hiiim, oh and that little voice inside my head…
I’ve noticed that quite a few blogs I read have turned off comments and trackbacks and removed all trace of any previous comments/trackbacks. I realise that the comment spam problem is a pain but I find that I treat blogs without comments/trackbacks as “less reliable sources”…
I guess it depends on the theme of the blog content. Blogs that are just someone’s random thoughts and dont have an agenda probably don’t really need comments or trackbacks, after all, who cares what other people have to say on the topic.
