It was probably the hottest day so far this year, but that didn't stop us meeting up with some out-of-town relatives (and some in-town ones) at the Roma Street Parklands.My Aunt Marion and her grand-daughters Jessica and Kaitlin visited my mum for a couple of days. Mum organised a day out in town, and invited the … Continue reading Our family day out on Sunday
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Fun for young and old! Seriously, if you've got some time to kill (and potentially an XBox to kill as well!) you can take the opportunity to stick it to ol' Bill Gates up in Redmond and hack his little console machine. Depending on the application it can be a pretty cheap way to get the … Continue reading XBox modding
Only a couple of weeks after going all gooey over SqueezeBox and SlimServer, I've found another way of doing media streaming at home. I've now joined that rebel group known as "XBox-modders", and have a machine at home now running the XBox Media Centre.XBox Media Centre requires a modded XBox to operate, though as I found … Continue reading XBox Media Centre
Christmas 2004, already! Best wishes to everyone! Here's hoping that Santa brought you everything you wished for. Nicholas is rapt with his presents (a sit-down musical learning piano from Mummy and Daddy, a lovely soft puppy-dog toy from Aunty Berni, and a set of Baby's First Blocks from Uncle Roger) -- even though he doesn't really understand … Continue reading Merry Christmas to All!
Sometimes you find the absolutely coolest things completely by accident, proving my theory of "Zen Internet Navigation" (you rarely find what you want, but you often find something you needed to see). Last night I found SlimServer, a music streaming server that has to be about the coolest thing I've seen in ages (yes, even better … Continue reading SlimServer ROCKS!
He's had bumps on the head, tumbles from prams, and other assorted spills, but today Nicholas spilled claret for the first time. Just to prove that you can NEVER truly be prepared for all eventualities, he managed to find something sharp to cut his finger on.I blame myself, of course. As soon as he started crawling and … Continue reading Nicholas’ first “bleeding injury”
We have a furry four-legged house guest for a few weeks: Molly, the Pembroke Corgi pup.While my in-laws go on vacation for three weeks, we are minding their dog. It will be very interesting to see how our Corgi, Chelsea, handles this -- given that she's already being a bit displaced by the new-found mobility of … Continue reading Furry house guest
I've just been having a bit of a play with this. Wow, it does a lot, and it looks to be really great -- but it's not a blogger, so Crossed Wires will probably be safe on Polarblog for a while yet.It really looks to be an impressive piece of programming. It's produced by a company called … Continue reading Metadot Portal Server
Having paid for the veejoe.net domain some time ago (got a fully sic deal as well, 5 years for the price of two, or something) I decided to finally do something about it. So, it's now the new (official) home of Crossed Wires. I'm hardly going to submit it to Google or anything like that, but … Continue reading New home for Crossed Wires
For too long I've been committing the Systems Programmer cardinal sin -- advocating proper backup strategies without doing so myself. Apparently I'm not alone (but that doesn't make it right, of course). Having read about this things called Bacula, I decided to do something about my backup un-preparedness. Now, not without some pain, I have a working Bacula … Continue reading My name is Bacula, wha-ha-ha-ha-ha…
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