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Good things come even if you don’t wait
Our child recovered from her fever today, and returned to being lively and cheerful. She was still lively and cheerful an hour after her normal bedtime tonight, and while seeing her crawl around the bed with a big grin on her face was rewarding, I really wanted her to go to sleep. And not try […]
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Confused about anything and everything
Today I tried an upgrade of a postgres install on Windows, which I can confidently say is something nobody ever wants to do. I don’t want to do it, and neither does anyone at Postgres, because the only documentation I can find says "you should install Linux" which is all well and good, but not […]
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Kind of back to front: The Queen and Mangosteen
After a day that was elongated through lack of sleep, I was keen for a bit of indolence at the end; home cooked food is great, but tragically there’s always washing up to do. I was meant to be meeting people for drinks over at the Fullerton, but when that fell through at the last […]
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Any joy with that?
I was called across the office today to arbitrate a point of English. Somebody had received an email about a fairly monotonous task they’d been attempting, asking "did you have any joy with that?" I looked at the email. I looked back at the lady asking me about the email. I asked what was the […]
