November 09 2019
It's been over two years, and while I'm still patiently waiting for the demise of Medium, it only took re-running pelican-quickstart to make my makefiles work again. Plus we haven't deprecated serving static content just yet, so there's that.
Most of the selling points for blog platforms these days is …
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An Update on Life
The last few months have been a bit hectic, let's say that.
Work
In work, a few things happened. I got promoted to 'Director', which is the top end of the management progression, bottom of executive. What either of these mean, I'll probably never know. About a year or so …
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June 12 2016
I was away last week with work to an offsite at the Club Med, which as far as I can
gather is one of those soviet-era collective holiday camps for people who weren't in a soviet. I bet the soviets never
had nespresso on demand.
Bizarrely, the weather in Ireland …
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June 05 2016
The weather turns and turns. We're well into the season where things spring out, and make you cut them back,
or just be happy they're there. Our garden has rhubarb. Enough for a tiny put of jam, or perhaps
a Mr. Kipling's style rhubarb tartlet or two.
It also is …
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May 25 2016
Further to the Reddit AMA I was
involved in a few years back (I am /u/sre_pointyhair) - "The Guy" showed up at my desk last week.
Alas, I was away, and he had to make do with doing the unspeakable things we do to keep servers running from my …
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