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Month: September 2008

  • Especially For Jimmy


    You may have beaten me to the centre of the galaxy, Jimmy, but...

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    • posted 25 September, 2008
  • Games I Have Been Playing Recently

    There's a couple of computer games I've played recently that I thought I'd share with you so that you, too, can go play them and waste all your free time (hopefully you've got more free time than I do to be wasted!).

    RUCKINGENUR II

    Free (as in beer) to download and play - download it here. Windows โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 3 minutes (711 words)

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    • posted 23 September, 2008
  • Image representing post: Pictures From PolyDay 2008

    Pictures From PolyDay 2008

    For the benefit of people I promised pictures to, here's some of the photos I took at PolyDay 2008, the post-Dossie Poly Meal, and generally during Claire and I's trip to London this weekend. There are more photos I'll share in due course, little doubt, and my write-up of what PolyDay was like, which I โ€ฆ

    Read more (88 words)

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    • posted 16 September, 2008
  • SSL Client Certificate Authentication In Ruby On Rails

    I've been playing with using client-side SSL certificates (installed into your web browser) as a means to authenticate against a Ruby on Rails-powered application. This subject is geeky and of limited interest even to the people who read this blog (with the possible exception of Ruth, who may find herself doing exactly this as part โ€ฆ

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    • posted 16 September, 2008
  • Ruth's Blog Post

    Dan came to see me this weekend, which was ace. On Saturday we went out to London and crammed so much into one day that I'm not sure I remember all of it. Here are the highlights:


    Found a cool adult shop on Oxford Street called Harmony. Bought rope cuffs. Purple ones!
    Stumbled โ€ฆ

    Read more (366 words)

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    • posted 8 September, 2008
  • Image representing post: Pictures From The Weekend

    Pictures From The Weekend

    I couldn't (easily) post these pictures while out-and-about, so I thought I'd share them now:



    The tailbackon the M6. That's a serious amount of traffic at a complete standstill, and people million about on the carriageway. In the distance, in the first one, you can just about make out the tops of the emergency services vehicles, โ€ฆ

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 1 September, 2008

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