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You know you live in a country with long working hours and horrible weather when your solar powered watch runs out of power…

Pressure groups annoy me. Little bands of people that manage to exert enough pressure on the government to make them change laws that affect millions of people. One such groups is reFlag. An attempt to redesign the Union Jack to reflect the diverse cultures now living within the UK. Correct […]

Wahey! the cheapo wireless cards work in Linux. Some serious PCI timing problems, but according to the forums there are various patches that solve this issue. I’m using the card just now 😀

Spent a weekend in Dublin with Maggie and her mum. Had a fantastic time. I’m still useless at describing events, but needless to say it was a fantastic weekend. Really glad to have seen Maggie again, and it was lovely meeting Jean as well. Got around to visiting Malahide Castle […]

Just over a week ago, I bought two cheap Canyon CN-WF513 802.11g wireless cards for £8 each. I thought it was a good deal, even if they didn’t work under Linux. They duly arrived and didn’t work, until Scott at ScotLUG kindly lent me his laptop for half an hour […]