Monthly Archives: July 2004

Growing to love Eclipse

Posted on July 28, 2004 by Andrew

Uh, wow. I’ve been working with Eclipse over the last few days as I seem to be writing quite a lot more Java, and hacking on other people’s Java. It’s an absolute pig to get working right, compared to the … Continue reading →

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Broken Ecto

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Andrew

Now posting is broken from Ecto. Great. Query: {blogid = bar; numberOfPosts = 500; password = ******; username = foo; } Response: { “/FaultCode” = 1; “/FaultString” = “Invalid login”; “/WSDebugInBody” = “<?xml version=\”1.0\” encoding=\”UTF-8\”?><methodResponse><fault><value><struct><member><name>faultString</name><value><string>Invalid login</string></value></member><member><name>faultCode</name><value><int>1</int></value></member></struct></value></fault></methodResponse>”; “/WSDebugInHeaders” = { Connection … Continue reading →

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Beware of Vodafone

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Andrew

Cutting a very long story short: last month when I was out of the country, I ran into problems using GPRS. After many long phone calls to Vodafone, they finally agreed it simply wasn’t working, and then agreed to refund … Continue reading →

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Browser errata

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Andrew

Following on from yesterday’s browser rant, Adrian popped up in iChat to offer this nugget of wisdom: basically, Safari gets boge ddown with cache itesm. so purge them every so often: find $HOME/Library/Safari/Icons -type f -atime +30 -name “*.cache” -delete … Continue reading →

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Trains errata

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Andrew

Last thing on trains for a while, promise. Mark says: Yes, the trains west from Norwich suck, but not quite that badly. Central offer big discounts for advance purchase (CV1, CV3 and CV7 tickets). Also, I think it’s hard to … Continue reading →

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Shh, Murphy is listening

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Andrew

I read somewhere “don’t tell God your plans, he’ll laugh in your face”. Or put another way, watch out for Murphy. I had plenty of opportunity today to curse my cockiness in berating trains. Having made fantastic time to the … Continue reading →

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MT Sucks and Rocks

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Andrew

Well, that could have gone better. Yesterday’s upgrade to MovableType 3 ended in this: **** WARNING: “my” variable $matched_string masks earlier declaration in same scope at Blacklist.pm line 1570. Upgrading your databases: Running ‘alter table mt_author add author_type smallint’ Running … Continue reading →

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Blog spam

Posted on July 16, 2004 by Andrew

Just deleted the 20 or so spam comments that had infested my account over the last few days. Time to upgrade the blog software so I can track down and kill all the other junk comments.

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This time last year

Posted on July 16, 2004 by Andrew

This time last year my brother-in-law died. We all miss him. In many ways it feels like only yesterday.

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Dumping Safari

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Andrew

Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed Safari seems to get slower and slower. I had to use Firefox to test a couple of sites in development (and to try getting round mime-type problems with browsers … don’t get me … Continue reading →

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