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Some administrativia: I finally updated the template on the blog from the Wordpress default - the first since I upgraded to WP 1.5. I've been experimenting with other themes, never finding one that really clicked, until I ran across Cutline. Nice clean layout, and I like the rotating header images (although they're not easy to [...]

Today starts a four-day weekend - Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday are both public holidays in Northern Ireland. Friday at work was quieter than usual, it being the Good Friday holiday in the Republic. Assuming things don't go totally pear-shaped with the testing, I only have three more days in the office until I head [...]

Nine more days (or perhaps eight at this point, given I'm about to hit the hay). Hopefully I'll get oot and aboot tomorrow and take some flower pictures - it's supposed to be the last sunny day for a while, albeit cold and windy. In the meantime, here's a few pictures from Dad's trip out [...]

I haven't written the release notes for my version delivery tomorrow. I'm already behind on writing minor new functionality for a version due next week. I haven't started writing the design for the major new functionality due in three weeks. I haven't started writing the six cartons worth of documentation due in six weeks.

So, [...]

In September 2006, Lifehacker published an article on using wget to grab mp3 files from music blogs. That article was based in turn on Jeffery Veen's article, and that's where I found out about Fingertips Music. Every week, the editor of Fingertips publishes mini-reviews and links to three free-and-legal mp3s of indie bands. The criteria [...]