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Entries from January 2007

Updates, Backups and Usability

January 17th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Today I updated all the blogs I have hosted to WordPress 2.0.7 as I didn’t want them getting defaced.
I also remembered to check that my backup system was working, I know that I cross post to other systems but I also run scripts on my hosting to dump the databases and email them [...]

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Tags: Geek · Real World

View from Skye

January 12th, 2007 · 8 Comments

Today has been another dark, wet and very windy day all over Scotland. In the last couple of months it seems as if there have only been a few days when it wasn’t raining and raining hard at that.  It gets quite depressing after a while so I like to go through my photographs and [...]

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Tags: Photography

Path to Temple Wood

January 5th, 2007 · 10 Comments

Ballymeanoch_10.jpgOriginally uploaded by Darkest Before Dawn.
I have uploaded some more photos from my summer holiday in Argyll.
The photos in this set are of the Ballymeanoch Standing Stones and landscape in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland.
I like this photo because it has a tranquil feeling for me.

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Tags: Photography · Real World

I am Man….

January 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments

… see me search pathetically for stock cubes!
Today I managed to get up before it got dark again, which is a major step forward. I needed a few things from the shops so instead of taking my car and assisting the destruction of the environment. I decided to have a walk as I am [...]

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Tags: Not quite reality

Sleep? Who needs it!

January 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments

My sleep pattern is totally messed up now, my brain just won’t switch off and over the last few nights, err mornings, when I have got to sleep I have had the most weird and wild dreams, even for me! Anyway when I have been awake I have been very productive so I am not [...]

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Tags: Geek · My Blogs · Real World