Monthly Archives: September 2010

Quick roundup

A quick roundup of recent events, because there’s a few things going on in the world, but none merits a full entry to itself – Ed Miliband won the labour leadership contest. His brother, David, now urging the party to get behind a great leader, went from a huge self-satisified smile, to an off-colour frown [...]

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Papal visit to UK

So the Pope is due in the UK tomorrow for the first time in about 30 years. It has been met with mixed feelings. Renowned public figures such as Terry Pratchett and Stephen Fry have put their names to a letter standing against the visit in the Guardian. The letter maintains that the state which [...]

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Tweety

A large number of the Google searches that this site picks up are for Tweety Pie, the little yellow bird cartoon character normally seen fending off attempts by Sylvester the cat. Of course, this site has very little to do with Tweety Pie at all, asides from a brief appearance as cheap plastic stuff – [...]

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ircd setup

Whilst messing around with ircd to set up a sandpit environment (as I’ve recently gone back into IRC to check out the WordPress IRC channels and wanted to remind myself about how a few things work.) I discovered that- ircd-seven is used by freenode, but there is not a whole lot of information about it. [...]

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