Sean August 4th, 2008
As there’s a few scans of really old photos being uploaded to the St Bertelines School facebook group, I thought I’d ask my mum to try and dig out some old photos. This weekend she dug out a newspaper clipping from back when the school first opened.
I’ve scanned the photo in and uploaded it to facebook, but as facebook tends to restrict the dimensions of uploaded images I’ve attached the full size image to this blog post for your viewing pleasure 
This scan was taken from the Friday May 13th 1983 edition of the Runcorn World newspaper.
Enjoy! 
Sean July 24th, 2008
I’ve finally got round to updating my Gallery with a pile of photos I had on my camera, including last night’s amazing Kylie gig.
More photos to come, when I get round to sorting them out…
Enjoy!
Sean May 8th, 2008
This evening I decided I should pick up my guitar and practice some more. To my horror I discovered that I’ve managed to damage the nut, so one of the strings rattles around horribly 
компютриI now need to find the time to locate someone local who can do a nice repair job. Any recommended repair shops in the Newcastle area?
Sean May 7th, 2008
Andy Quested has just posted an interesting entry on the BBC Internet blog called “How to start an HD channel from scratch“:
I can only image the conversations John Zubrzycki (BBC Research) had with set top box manufactures in late December:
John:
“We are going to do a trial of HD on digital terrestrial and need to develop a set top box”
Manufacturer:
“Great, we can get our development team across it. What’s your timescale and how many units do you need?”
John:
“Well it would be good to have say 500 for a trial in June”
Manufacturer:
“June, that’s June 2008?”
John:
“No, this June - in time for the World Cup.”
That was probably followed by the sound of the phone going down!
Head over and read the full article if this kind of thing tickles your fancy…
Sean May 6th, 2008
There’s an annoying bug in Google Reader that causes the unread article count to increment before you’re actually able to view the article.
Eg:
The problem first reared its ugly head a few months back, with it happening more frequently over the past week or so.
Is it just me, or is it annoying the hell out of anyone else too?
Sean February 23rd, 2008
After asking for more info regarding the warning from Google, Stopbadware.org sent me a review of my website. It looks like I’d been hit by a WordPress xmlrpc exploit before I’d had chance to patch for it. Oops!
My transparent bridging post had been altered to include a bit of HTML code to call an external URL in an IFRAME. I’ve no idea what was on that page, but no doubt it was malicious content targeting unpatched web browsers.
This Stopbadware blog post has more info…
All clear now!…
Sean February 18th, 2008
I just performed a quick search on Google for a couple of keywords I knew appeared on my website and discovered the following:
Apparently, the information about building a traffic shaper may harm your computer if you view it! Err, I think not! I’ve submitted a review request to Google and StopBadware.org to figure out WTFs happening here.
Sean December 4th, 2007
AT LAST!
After a quick cleanup of my WMP 11 library, I fired up the Xbox 360 and found all the videos on my PC are playable! Maybe I can finally get rid of the old Xbox 1 brick from underneath the TV…
Sean September 24th, 2007
I’ve recently had the need to create a box capable of transparently traffic-shaping traffic across a single ethernet connection.
Normally, I’d go for some kind of Linux solution, but after doing a bit of research it looked like one of the BSD’s with pf/ALTQ would be the way to go. After trying out a couple of popular ready-made “appliances” (m0n0wall, pfsense) I decided that the best, most flexible way, would be to get my hands dirty and roll my own.
This post is just a quick summary of the active configuration at the time of writing, mainly for my future reference. So, without further ado, here’s what I came up with…
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Sean September 20th, 2007
Last weekend we took a trip down to Leicester to attend Barry & Lou’s Handfasting at Kirby Muxloe Castle.
A great day and evening was had by all - A DJ who wasn’t afraid to play any kind of Rock/Metal you could want was a real bonus too
As usual, my photos are online - Just click here…
Sean September 19th, 2007
I’ve finally got round to making another pass at sorting out our Outer Hebrides photos!
There’s still some missing (more panoramic photos and the videos we took), but the majority are now online.
Go to http://www.cardus.com/gallery/v/Outer+Hebrides to check them out.
Autostitch is a really handy tool for automatically stitching overlapping photos together into one large panoramic shot. Links to the few I’ve uploaded so far: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7*
* - This one’s a bit screwy and needs fixing & cropping
Sean August 27th, 2007
We got back from our 2 week stint in the Outer Hebrides last night…
Whilst we’re still trying to get everything unpacked and tidied up again, I caught a few minutes to start downloading all the photos off my camera. So far I’ve put the photos from Ste and Cathy’s wedding online. The photos from the holiday (amost 1.5GB of them!) will probably follow sometime this week…
Sean July 16th, 2007
Mark September 24th off on your calendars - The start date of the 2nd season of Heroes has been announced!
http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/
Sean June 12th, 2007
The following was filmed yesterday at Apples WWDC conference.
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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuTtrkVtns
At last! iD is producing a game engine than can handle outdoor areas and is actually LIT for a change!
