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George Floyd, 1973–2020.

Posted on June 7, 2020June 8, 2020 by wally

Until writing this, I have made no public reflection on the death of George Floyd, the continuing situation in America (and by extension the UK and so forth), or the trending topic of whether black lives matter. Update: It has come to my attention that there is a subtle but crucially distinct difference between stating […]

What can technology delivery teams learn from SpaceX’s Demo-2?

Posted on June 1, 2020 by wally

Read my article over at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-can-technology-delivery-teams-learn-from-spacex-demo-2-hall While watching the Demo-2 SpaceX/NASA launch on Saturday, I started to develop a number of lessons that technology delivery teams can learn from this historical event. I’ve started with 10 lessons, which you can find over on LinkedIn.

Ubiquiti networks – Unifi-ing our house…

Posted on May 17, 2020May 18, 2020 by wally

Prologue. So, I finally broke. It was one too many WiFi drop-outs on a day when I just really wanted to be able to watch a TV show without having to fiddle. And I guess that’s where I should start. 10 years ago, our house would be “far from normal”. It’d be modern, edgy, technologically […]

Apple Watch: Waterproof or not?

Posted on March 30, 2015April 12, 2020 by wally

A few of us today at work discussed the upcoming Apple Watch (pre-orders from 10th April) and the topic of water-proofing came up. A little research on Google reveals no “definitive” answer, so I took matters into my own hands and hunted the main official Apple Watch (web-)pages for any hint. Sure enough I found […]

Ebuyer – maxing out the result limit

Posted on February 22, 2011 by wally

This might be useful to someone, somewhere, out there. Those who’re into tinkering with things they shouldn’t will notice that Ebuyer’s search pages include a “limit” GET variable in the results page URL. The upper limit appears to be 30, but going negatively causes a different kettle of fish: http://www.ebuyer.com/search?q=a%25&x=0&y=0&limit=-3000 (That URL is not for […]

Camp day 1

Posted on July 24, 2010April 12, 2020 by wally

Aye, so the peeps turned up, network coverage is at a minimum, but the weather is good (praise the Lord). Thank you to all those who baked cakes, the chocolate digestive was superb – thanks Elane! Hopefully the campfire pic uploads, hello to all you from East Dean!

Garrrr! International speak like a pirate day yarr!

Posted on September 19, 2008 by wally

On that note: I be feeling lucky!

Accessing Apple Higher Education store from home

Posted on July 11, 2008 by wally

If you’re an Essex University student (i.e. you have a valid Essex login) and you’re tired of having to enter campus for access to the Apple Higher Education store, you’ll probably be pleased to know you can do it from home. If you’re running Linux/Unix (including OSX), you’ve already got everything you need. Windows users […]

IE7 glitches galore

Posted on August 22, 2007June 19, 2008 by wally

For anyone who claims that IE7 is “the best browser there is” (Davey…), this might just put it in a different light. Goto http://www.plfc.org.uk/ and look at the first link on the page, “FIEC”. Notice (in IE7) that there’s a little gap after it, like there’s a . Well, look at it in FireFox, Opera, […]

Bugfixes and coding

Posted on August 21, 2007June 19, 2008 by wally

I’ve spent the last couple of days bugfixing some code I wrote for the church website and writing some new code for various things. Had a superb headache while chasing one extremely weird bug just now, the piece of code below was never giving me more than 1 line of printout (which is weird, as […]