posted by darryn filed under Uncategorized
By land or sea from the town to-night,Restrain his Fury, than provoke his Speed
Sometimes, spam is awesome.
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posted by darryn filed under Uncategorized
A post in progress...
I am currently in the process of setting up systems to provide more accurate and widespread monitoring of the infrastructure at both home and work. Generally I set these things up at home first, and then implement them at work.
I have previously written about mrtg, but I am now using/experimenting with the following:
pycron
RRDTool
SquidNT
Cacti
I have to say that
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posted by darryn filed under personal
My recent posts concerning the Netherlands have prompted Bea into action, and on Friday I received a parcel in the mail, containing treats and presents.
The treats were Chocolade Kruid Noten mix and Gevulde Speculaas. The kruid noten are chocolate covered spiced biscuits which remind me of a Mint Slice without the mint. They are quite nice to eat. Speculaas is
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http://www.hunkinsexperiments.com/pages/nuclearfission.htm
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posted by darryn filed under personal
I was recently quite pleased to achieve the superhuman feat of getting 0.03 seconds on a stopwatch. This was very difficult, and took many attempts. I wasn't wasting time - there was a long SQL script running and I was “timing” it. I took a photo and posted it in this blog.
This week I was contacted by Mark at greenbeetle,
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posted by darryn filed under Uncategorized
I have written a few posts lately that have caused quite a stir, which was not my intention. For the record, I am 100% committed to moving to the Netherlands in March and I am very excited and looking forward to this time. I try to speak Dutch around the house as much as I can, although Kirsten frequently laughs
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posted by darryn filed under personal
I was reading the "Foreigners in the Netherlands" group on orkut last night and I came across something that confirmed many of my fears about what I will be experiencing in less than six months. I have to admit that it put me off a bit. So all you Dutchies, start convincing me otherwise in the comments.
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So of course I bought the Star Wars DVDs on Wednesday. When I got it home, I decided to watch the special features first, so I inserted that disc into my DVD player. My DVD player is my XBox, and it was like a special Christmas when a special menu popped up, asking if I wanted to watch the special
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posted by darryn filed under personal
Today it is exactly six months until I leave Australia to live in The Netherlands. I am excited about the adventure, and both Kirsten and I are dedicated to saving and preparation. I am gradually building up a Dutch vocabulary and am getting to the point where I can form rudimentary sentences. Ik spreek een klein beetje Nederlands, maar ik
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posted by darryn filed under personal
without Math, copper goes up.
WELCOME TO THE LEARNING TRIANGLE
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