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This was passed last night in the House of Comons and will get rubber stamped in the House of Lords and be passed into law. It is not the content of the bill that annoyed me but it provenance and its current debate.

The path of the this Bill into Law and its debate in the Washup before the election is a damning indication of the state of britains politcal process. The Bill was not tabled first in the Commons and was created by Peter Mandelson and ...

I have a Blackberry Storm, yes it has its foibles, memory management omg, and is a bit lame next to the iPhone but it does work quite nicely for me.

The default browser is functional but that is all so I thought I would try an alternate and settled on Opera Mini 5 (beta 2). http://www.opera.com/mini/next/ It works on a lot of mobiles though I think it needs java.

Wow what a difference. a very smart little program. I like the Tabbed browsing and the speed-dial and ...

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After geting Debian working on the machine where Ubuntu was failing and not destroying it in in the 2 days I have been fiddling with it I have been toying with the idea of using it as a media server and PVR as it has a digital TV card, is quiet and reasonably power efficient to stay on most of the time. The Myth TV setup I will leave for another day.

I thought that even though I dont have a HDTV I would look into how a Bluray setup could be done on the machine now that the HD wars ...

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An interesting book by the author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicaon etc Neal Stepheson.

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-was-...908298&sr=8-11

Just finished reading this interesting essay on operating systems. He really shows quite what a geek he is, which does come out in fiction, and it describes the relationships between us users and the various operating systems out there.. It did ...

Virtualisation is great. We have 25 odd Virtual Machines across 4 physical servers for development and testing. Want a new server just pull it up from the library and you have a new server in the time it takes to move the virtual hard drive files. Want to do something risky on the server like testing deployment scripts across replicated servers - take a checkpoint and you can roll it back in seconds and test it again from your starting point.

MS have a free VM host called Hyper-V ...

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I have never blogged before and am thinking of blogging about about some of the IT problems or challanges I face at work.

I follow a SBS blog and she made a post about how the blog helps her document to herself problems she faces so i thought I may follow suit.

You may not need what I am going to document and find its contents a bit dry but I hope you enjoy it and hopefully some of it may be of use.

Some of the IT blogs I follow.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ ...

My girlfriend managed to get tickets to a preview sceening of 44 Inch Chest last night. It had a Q&A session wiht Ray Winstone, John Hurt and David Scinto (one of the writers and they were responsible for Sexy Beast which I have not seen). Should not be any spoilers butI might write more about its themes later.

The Film
Quite a difficult and complex film really about a man, Colin, who's wife left him and his reaction to the situation with the help of his friends. A very ...

Found a video I did a while back of some snaps for my last trip home to perth set to some You Am I, an Oz band

Mates, Flowers, beaches, brewing beer, family snaps mostly of my niece and some of my uncles art work.

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