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End Of An Era

Posted by Erador on June 18th, 2007

Well that’s it, I’ve finished university, I’m scared.
Almost everyone moved out over the past week, Phil went whilst I was away at BUSA Outdoors, shooting truly appallingly in the rain. Being accurate at 90m with a bow is hard.
In the meantime, I’m applying for jobs, and trying to handle being even poorer than a poor […]

Grr…goram PyMSNt

Posted by Erador on January 2nd, 2007

Somehow…debian or pymsnt is broken…
Every time I try and restart the MSN transport, it tells me I don’t have the python-twisted libraries installed, or the wrong version, but I don’t, they’re installed and they’re the recommended versions.
GRR!
It was working perfectly yesterday, and no packages have changed between then and now.
I don’t understand.

Safe

Posted by Erador on July 26th, 2006

Well I arrived in sunny Hertfordshire unharmed, well at least physically.
The train journey was long and arduous, but worth it, I feel, at least I’d best say that lest Jennifer hit me, or slit my throat while I sleep in a room full of knives :O The Leeds train was 3 minutes late, and then […]

Google Earth On Linux And New WordPress Skin

Posted by Erador on July 23rd, 2006

Google Earth on Linux
Google Earth is now available in beta form for Linux, compiled natively, unlike Picasa which was the Windows (TM) version running using WINE I’m told it was pretty slow. Google Earth is anything but slow, it works pretty much perfectly and given it’s still in beta I’m happily surprised!