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2022

Fri 25 March 2022 - March 2022 Update

2020

Sat 28 November 2020 - Variable substitution in docker-compose .env env-files
Sun 31 May 2020 - Choosing a podcast host
Sun 09 February 2020 - I've started a podcast!

2019

Fri 27 December 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-12-27
Fri 20 December 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-12-20
Fri 13 December 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-12-13
Fri 06 December 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-12-06
Fri 29 November 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-11-29
Fri 22 November 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-11-22
Fri 15 November 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-11-15
Fri 08 November 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-11-08
Fri 01 November 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-11-01
Fri 25 October 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-10-25
Fri 18 October 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-10-18
Fri 11 October 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-10-11
Fri 04 October 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-10-04
Fri 27 September 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-09-27
Fri 20 September 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-09-20
Fri 13 September 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-09-13
Wed 11 September 2019 - Redhill technology events: Red Sprite
Fri 06 September 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-09-06
Fri 30 August 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-08-30
Fri 23 August 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-08-23
Fri 16 August 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-08-16
Thu 15 August 2019 - Local Podcasts
Fri 09 August 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-08-09
Fri 02 August 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-08-02
Fri 26 July 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-07-26
Fri 19 July 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-07-19
Fri 12 July 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-07-12
Fri 05 July 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-07-05
Fri 28 June 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-06-28
Fri 21 June 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-06-21
Fri 14 June 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-06-14
Fri 07 June 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-06-07
Fri 31 May 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-05-31
Fri 24 May 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-05-24
Thu 23 May 2019 - Networking events around Redhill
Fri 17 May 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-05-17
Fri 10 May 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-05-10
Fri 03 May 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-05-03
Fri 26 April 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-04-26
Fri 19 April 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-04-19
Fri 12 April 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-04-12
Fri 05 April 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-04-05
Fri 29 March 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-03-29
Fri 22 March 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-03-22
Fri 15 March 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-03-15
Fri 08 March 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-03-08
Fri 01 March 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-03-01
Tue 26 February 2019 - Notes, 2019-02-26
Fri 22 February 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-02-22
Fri 15 February 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-02-15
Fri 08 February 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-02-08
Fri 01 February 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-02-01
Fri 25 January 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-01-25
Fri 18 January 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-01-18
Fri 11 January 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-01-11
Fri 04 January 2019 - Photo Friday: 2019-01-04

2018

Fri 21 December 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-12-21
Mon 17 December 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W50
Fri 14 December 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-12-14
Mon 10 December 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W49
Fri 07 December 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-12-07
Mon 03 December 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W48
Fri 30 November 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-11-30
Fri 23 November 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-11-23
Fri 16 November 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-11-16
Fri 09 November 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-11-09
Wed 07 November 2018 - Choosing a live chat application
Mon 05 November 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W44
Fri 02 November 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-11-02
Mon 29 October 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W43
Fri 26 October 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-10-26
Fri 19 October 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-10-19
Wed 17 October 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W41
Fri 12 October 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-10-12
Wed 10 October 2018 - Sending tweets automatically from Python (and Django)
Mon 08 October 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W40
Fri 05 October 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-10-05
Wed 03 October 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W39
Fri 28 September 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-09-28
Fri 28 September 2018 - LXD on LVM - thinpool setup
Mon 24 September 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W38
Fri 21 September 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-09-21
Tue 18 September 2018 - (How to) build a portable executable for a single Python script
Mon 17 September 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W37
Fri 14 September 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-09-14
Mon 10 September 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W36
Sun 09 September 2018 - Custom/manual Ubuntu install via IPMI (on OVH hosting)
Fri 07 September 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-09-07
Wed 05 September 2018 - Request Tracker - Precedence: bulk
Mon 03 September 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W35
Fri 31 August 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-08-31
Wed 29 August 2018 - Wordpress - my essential plugins
Mon 27 August 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W34
Fri 24 August 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-08-24
Tue 21 August 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W33
Fri 17 August 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-08-17
Mon 13 August 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W32
Fri 10 August 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-08-10
Mon 06 August 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W31
Fri 03 August 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-08-03
Mon 30 July 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W30
Fri 27 July 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-07-27
Tue 24 July 2018 - New HMO licensing from Oct 2018
Mon 23 July 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W29
Fri 20 July 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-07-20
Mon 16 July 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W28
Fri 13 July 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-07-13
Mon 09 July 2018 - Journal, ISO week 2018-W27
Sat 07 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-07-02
Fri 06 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-29
Fri 06 July 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-07-06
Fri 06 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-28
Fri 06 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-27
Thu 05 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-26
Thu 05 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-25
Wed 04 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-22
Wed 04 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-21
Wed 04 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-20
Sun 01 July 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-19
Sat 30 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-18
Sat 30 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-15
Fri 29 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-14
Fri 29 June 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-06-29
Thu 28 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-13
Thu 28 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-12
Wed 27 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-11
Wed 27 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-08
Tue 26 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-07
Mon 25 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-06
Mon 25 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-05
Sun 24 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-04
Sun 24 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-06-01
Sat 23 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-31
Sat 23 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-30
Fri 22 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-29
Fri 22 June 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-06-22
Tue 19 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-28
Fri 15 June 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-06-15
Thu 14 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-26
Wed 13 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-25
Tue 12 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-24
Mon 11 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-23
Fri 08 June 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-06-08
Thu 07 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-22
Wed 06 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-21
Wed 06 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-20
Tue 05 June 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-18
Fri 01 June 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-06-01
Wed 30 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-17
Tue 29 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-16
Mon 28 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-15
Fri 25 May 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-05-25
Fri 18 May 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-05-18
Mon 14 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-14
Fri 11 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-11
Fri 11 May 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-05-11
Thu 10 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-10
Wed 09 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-09
Tue 08 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-08
Mon 07 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-07
Fri 04 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-04
Fri 04 May 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-05-04
Thu 03 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-03
Wed 02 May 2018 - Journal, ISO date 2018-05-02
Fri 27 April 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-04-27
Fri 20 April 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-04-20
Sat 14 April 2018 - Replacement for Property Bee browser plugin
Fri 13 April 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-04-13
Fri 06 April 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-04-06
Mon 02 April 2018 - Podcasts I hear in 2018
Fri 30 March 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-03-30
Fri 23 March 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-03-23
Fri 16 March 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-03-16
Fri 09 March 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-03-09
Fri 02 March 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-03-02
Fri 23 February 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-02-23
Fri 16 February 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-02-16
Fri 09 February 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-02-09
Fri 02 February 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-02-02
Fri 26 January 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-01-26
Fri 19 January 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-01-19
Fri 12 January 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-01-12
Fri 05 January 2018 - Photo Friday: 2018-01-05

2017

Fri 29 December 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-12-29
Fri 22 December 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-12-22
Fri 15 December 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-12-15
Fri 08 December 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-12-08
Fri 01 December 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-12-01
Fri 24 November 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-11-24
Tue 21 November 2017 - Property and Tenant Manager launching and writing
Fri 17 November 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-11-17
Fri 10 November 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-11-10
Fri 03 November 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-11-03
Fri 27 October 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-10-27
Fri 20 October 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-10-20
Fri 13 October 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-10-13
Fri 06 October 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-10-06
Fri 29 September 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-09-29
Fri 22 September 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-09-22
Fri 15 September 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-09-15
Fri 08 September 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-09-08
Fri 01 September 2017 - Photo Friday: 2017-09-01
Mon 06 February 2017 - C# / SMO Scripted Database Restore with Multiple Backup Sets in a Volume
Mon 09 January 2017 - VirtualBox disk corruption

2015

Fri 25 September 2015 - Grails 3 Externalized Configuration
Tue 23 June 2015 - Report from the June Micropreneurs Social
Sat 20 June 2015 - Summer Fayre 27th June 2015
Tue 10 March 2015 - Redhill Freelancers and Small Business meetup survey
Wed 11 February 2015 - Building a Micropreneur and Freelancers group in Redhill
Fri 06 February 2015 - Writing 10,000 words review
Thu 05 February 2015 - Oops, I Snapped the Bed!
Thu 05 February 2015 - Writing 10,000 words in a day
Fri 30 January 2015 - First Grails 3 pre-release
Fri 30 January 2015 - Grails vs Django, revisited
Wed 21 January 2015 - Testing a new boot configuration
Wed 14 January 2015 - Tunbridge Wells Dev Meetup - Jan 2015

2014

Wed 26 November 2014 - Podcasts I Hear
Wed 26 November 2014 - Bottle Time
Tue 07 January 2014 - My First Django Site

2013

Tue 26 November 2013 - Family Addition
Sun 15 September 2013 - Design a Formula 1 Helmet
Sat 14 September 2013 - Ingredient oops
Tue 20 August 2013 - The Best (Android) Phone
Fri 02 August 2013 - Grails vs Django
Mon 29 July 2013 - Dynamic DNS at All Secure Domains
Thu 25 July 2013 - Balloon Modelling

2012

Fri 31 August 2012 - Favourite Children's Books
Fri 31 August 2012 - Story Lab
Thu 23 August 2012 - ssh SOA error
Mon 30 July 2012 - Slow LVS-NAT responses
Mon 07 May 2012 - Migrating Chef to a new server
Fri 16 March 2012 - "Daddy" by Sophie
Fri 16 March 2012 - Train Entertainment

2011

Sat 17 December 2011 - Annual pain of CT600 submission on Linux
Wed 19 October 2011 - East Grinstead 10k run
Tue 20 September 2011 - Add an SMTP server to a Grails application
Tue 20 September 2011 - Convert an OpenVZ VM to KVM
Fri 16 September 2011 - Daffodil Photos
Mon 25 July 2011 - Ticket sales (PayPal, Jasper Reports, Barcodes) with Grails
Tue 19 July 2011 - Tickets: selling, sending, supporting and checking; all in three weeks
Sun 13 March 2011 - grails-mail patch for envelopeFrom (VERP)
Sun 13 March 2011 - Grails multi-version launch script

2010

Tue 16 November 2010 - Custom (private) DTD in HTTPBuilder XML response
Fri 12 November 2010 - Resize iframe from within
Thu 30 September 2010 - I'm running 10km on Sunday!
Tue 07 September 2010 - Backport rsnapshot 1.3.1 to Lenny
Sat 14 August 2010 - Sleepy Sophie
Wed 21 July 2010 - Edward and the sunflower
Wed 21 July 2010 - A to B
Tue 22 June 2010 - Envelope senders for Grails mail plugin (Spring Java Mail)
Tue 15 June 2010 - SparkleShare: self-hosted, git based, DropBox clone
Mon 14 June 2010 - Hello Fabia
Tue 08 June 2010 - Follow the FIB Final on SupaJam
Tue 08 June 2010 - Bye Bye Prius
Thu 27 May 2010 - Groovy mail shot
Sun 21 February 2010 - The 3 Year Old Memory Aid
Tue 16 February 2010 - FIB 2010 Music Contest Launched
Mon 01 February 2010 - Dependency excludes in Grails 1.2
Sun 31 January 2010 - Regex search and replace in Excel
Sat 30 January 2010 - Grails 1.2.0 (or 1.2.1 snapshot) upgrade
Wed 06 January 2010 - Snowman

2009

Tue 13 October 2009 - Girls multi-task, boys cure hiccups
Fri 09 October 2009 - Resize ext3 in LVM in partition in (KVM/QEMU) virtual image file
Mon 21 September 2009 - Rolling to rocking
Fri 04 September 2009 - HTML email from a GSP with the Grails mail plugin
Fri 04 September 2009 - Writing HTML email is unpleasant!
Tue 14 July 2009 - Swine Flu: Swabbed
Wed 08 July 2009 - Swine Flu: Confirmed (as much as it will be)
Wed 08 July 2009 - Swine Flu: Likely
Wed 24 June 2009 - A quote
Wed 24 June 2009 - Upgrading a Maven Grails project from 1.1 to 1.1.1
Mon 20 April 2009 - New SupaJam Unsigned Band Contest
Wed 04 February 2009 - Extracting a subdirectory from git as a new git repository
Tue 03 February 2009 - Obligatory snow post
Thu 22 January 2009 - One Of Each

2008

Sun 28 December 2008 - The cost of preparation
Fri 28 November 2008 - What a start
Tue 04 November 2008 - Mob madness
Thu 30 October 2008 - Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex released today
Wed 08 October 2008 - My phone runs Android
Tue 12 August 2008 - We moved!
Thu 24 July 2008 - New home, finally
Thu 24 July 2008 - Another one!
Tue 22 July 2008 - Hello family car
Tue 22 July 2008 - Bye bye sports car
Tue 22 July 2008 - Posting again
Mon 19 May 2008 - Supajam competition launch
Wed 19 March 2008 - Edward is stepping

2007

Sun 09 December 2007 - cold--
Mon 19 November 2007 - Crazy filesystems
Fri 16 November 2007 - Mum recovering
Fri 16 November 2007 - Web browsers to scream at
Wed 31 October 2007 - Get well soon mum
Wed 31 October 2007 - Edward seems recovered
Sun 28 October 2007 - Not a week to plan
Sun 21 October 2007 - Biphasic sleep week 0
Tue 16 October 2007 - Sleeping in two
Tue 16 October 2007 - Lovely meal
Mon 03 September 2007 - Cruising on
Fri 20 July 2007 - Crawling along
Thu 05 July 2007 - Rocking and rolling
Fri 22 June 2007 - 91st percentile
Sun 17 June 2007 - Crawling, commando style
Tue 05 June 2007 - Finger (nail) clipping
Tue 05 June 2007 - RoR nearly falls early
Tue 22 May 2007 - Christening... survived
Thu 03 May 2007 - Multiple page scan to PDF
Thu 03 May 2007 - PNG compression
Fri 20 April 2007 - Small family christening
Tue 20 March 2007 - Outgrowing everything
Sun 18 March 2007 - Sleeping through
Sun 04 March 2007 - Edward photo update
Sun 04 March 2007 - Re-inventing the ... bin
Thu 22 February 2007 - CustomerService++
Fri 09 February 2007 - Photo check
Sun 28 January 2007 - Freelance
Fri 26 January 2007 - Baby (not) jaundice
Sun 21 January 2007 - Midwife madness
Fri 19 January 2007 - Breast is best
Tue 16 January 2007 - Putty for P990i
Fri 12 January 2007 - Creating a person...
Wed 10 January 2007 - Tongue tie
Sun 07 January 2007 - Early baby photo
Sat 06 January 2007 - Back from hospital
Wed 03 January 2007 - It's a boy!

2006

Mon 18 December 2006 - Digitalbrain departure
Sun 10 December 2006 - Oh! Christmas Tree
Sun 03 December 2006 - Reindeer and plastic ice
Mon 09 October 2006 - RunLondon Completed
Fri 22 September 2006 - Baby Gets Bigger
Fri 15 September 2006 - How to not get a sysadmin job
Thu 14 September 2006 - Recruitment homework question
Sun 03 September 2006 - Where are all the SysAdmins?
Mon 14 August 2006 - Baby's first hat
Sun 06 August 2006 - Dance Entertainer!
Wed 26 July 2006 - This is Liz
Thu 13 July 2006 - We're expecting!
Tue 11 July 2006 - Shuttle wing video
Mon 10 July 2006 - Buddy Brilliant
Mon 10 July 2006 - Trapped in Jars
Sun 18 June 2006 - For a new job
Thu 15 June 2006 - New Typo Site