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List-o-mania

Saturday, June 17, 2017

I have, once again, felt stuck, spinning my wheels in the mud. There is an unpleasant, and possibly vicious, cycle at play here in my head: my planning falls apart, I feel like I am not getting anything done, my anxiety spikes, I cannot plan cogently. Repeat and repeat and repeat like some damned overwrought […]

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Two-factor in the middle of the night

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Wherever possible I have been enabling two-factor authentication and similar protections. Not that I am paranoid, it’s just that I am paranoid. One of these I have had in play for a long time is protection on my Google account. So it’s somewhat comforting to get an unexpected SMS message from Google in the middle […]

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Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. I’ve heard back from my contact at Blue Point regarding the defunct electric car chargers. On 4th of August I was assured by Berkeley’s “Head of Estates” that matters were going to be soon resolved, and that a quick trip through Legal would see it […]

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On Git Submodules…

Monday, October 3, 2016

Git Submodules. Just Say No. Not Even Once. http://slopjong.de/2013/06/04/git-why-submodules-are-evil/ https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your-company-shouldnt-use-git-submodules/ http://somethingsinistral.net/blog/git-submodules-are-probably-not-the-answer/

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Docker and Consul and DNS, oh my

Friday, August 19, 2016

I’m still trying to wrap my head around networking when it comes to Docker and related technologies – I think because a lot of the documentation and examples around are either not quite correct, or are subtly out of date. I’ve noticed too that a lot of the writing out there around setting up Docker and/or […]

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Lovely Rita Meter Maid…

Saturday, August 6, 2016

The saga of the non-functioning SourceLondon / PodPoint units in Woolwich Arsenal continues, with the lightning pace usually associated with continental drift, and the rise and fall of mountain ranges.

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SSL Made Easy

Monday, August 1, 2016

Time for a shout-out to DreamHost, who have partnered with LetsEncrypt to make using SSL with this website very, very easy. DreamHost have always aimed to make many actions against the site push-button, with sensible defaults, and clear documentation, and generating and attaching the certificate was a walk in the park. I was a little surprised to […]

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PropertySource-1.0

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Having a little time up my sleeve, and a need to be off my feet for as much as possible… wait, did I mention that? Somewhere in the last six weeks I’ve done something undefined to my feet, which are painfully sore to walk on. I think that I managed to sprain one or more […]

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Feeling blue

Monday, April 11, 2016

It has been said somewhere… and therein lies the state of the art when writing something that sounds profound on the Internet in the first half of the 21st century. Somewhere or other I read, unattributed, or with forgotten attribution, something vaguely like what I’m about to repeat without attribution: Greater London as a city […]

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While they waited and listened in awe…

Monday, April 11, 2016

Erect and sublime, for one moment of time, In the next, that wild figure they saw (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm, While they waited and listened in awe. Benighted PodPoint Gill-Hank is now standing proudly and boldly erect! Yes indeed, workers from Berkeley were out over the last few days […]

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