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Bang! Bam!

Matt — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:08:20 +0000

Bit of a day today, had some good, had some bad.

I’ll start with the good because I like life that way. I took a Juniper JNCIA-SSL (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate – SSL) exam and passed it.

I say I “passed it”, I kinda blew it apart by getting 100% on it, in [...]

Still here?

Matt — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:17:03 +0000

Hello, I haven’t completely neglected this blog, I just have very little going on in life right now so I don’t have anything to write.

While I work out what’s goign to happen with the blog, here’s a picture of a chimp that was on the back of a bottle of Innocent orange juice.

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Two months and a sofa

Matt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:48:39 +0000

So, I’m now two months into this weght-loss kick, seems to be going ok – I’ve lost 10 kilos, clothes are looser, and the graph is still on a downward trend.

This afternoon I go for an initial consultation at the recreation centre in Bridgend for excercise on referral. My doctor has referred me [...]

New look

Matt — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:55:22 +0000

I was getting a little bored with the old site layout, and was feeling constrained by the single sidebar – the sidebar took up more vertical space than my posts! So I have picked a new theme for the blog.

I’m very happy with the result. It’s a three-column theme so I now have [...]

Burns Night

Matt — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:10:33 +0000

Well I guess that it’s Burns Night, you know what put me onto that fact? The piper in full garb that stood outside the masonic hall next door for half an hour playing on his bagpipes to welcome guests. He’s gone indoors now so I don’t have to listen any more

In honour [...]

E-retailer one-ups

Matt — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:27:43 +0000

I had two mailshots this morning from two e-retailers, the second one looks like a classic piece of one-upping (although I’m sure it isn’t). See for yourselves…

I can’t help thinking that someone at Play got the email from Amazon and said “£5! We can beat that!”

Some people might say I have [...]

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:23:26 +0000

So I’ve kinda decided that I’m going to try to do the CCSE next. It’ll be a challenge because it’s over a year since I did the course, and it’s usually best to do the exams as soon after the course as possible so that you don’t fall into too many real-world bad habits, [...]

Boring holidays

Matt — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:10:14 +0000

I’ve been told my last post was boring, in fact I often get told that my posts are boring. But it’s usually the ones that I find interesting that other people tell me are boring. I guess I’m just odd.

My boss had words with me this week. Apparently I don’t take enough holiday [...]

Enabling telnet:// in firefox on Linux

Matt — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:33:53 +0000

Following on from my earlier post about enabling putty as a telnet handler for ie7, a friend recently asked me about enabling a telnet handler for firefox on Linux.

Now he and I are both using Firefox 3 on Ubuntu, so your mileage may vary, but this was how we did it…

Step one [...]

New gizmo

Matt — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:51:12 +0000

I bought a new gadget! I like buying new gadgets, it makes me feel good.

This time I have signed up to a Vodafone mobile broadband service. It gets me a USB “pebble” style modem as pictured, and internets wherever I am! I will never be internetless again!

The speed of the connection is [...]