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Lovely exchange

While out today I heard this conversation (between an american and an english lady) about a fountain which was uncovered. US chap: That would never be allowed in the US, someone could fall in and hurt themselves UK lady: In the UK we just don’t fall in.

Setting up trac on OSX

Yeowch that was harder work than it should have been. Firstly I have installed ‘stuff’ before via port, NEVER again (well almost never). Darwin port installs apps into /opt/… it will manage the dependencies of an installation (but removing an app does not remove the dependencies). I had managed to get several versions of pythonContinue reading “Setting up trac on OSX”

Relative class paths in eclipse

In eclipse you can only reference jars via a path into the workspace, you can use relative paths (if you edit the .classpath outside of eclipse) but this relative path cannot expand outside of the workspace. This is a problem if you are using svn:externals to add an externals directory into a repository that containsContinue reading “Relative class paths in eclipse”

How to setup subversion on OSX

This works with leopard. Firstly turn on web sharing, web sharing uses apache2 under the hood although its config is bizarre to say the least. Create a repository: sudo mkdir /usr/local/subversion/ sudo svnadmin create /usr/local/subversion/Test Ensure the repository is readable by apache sudo chown -R _www /usr/local/subversion/ Setup a password file (For later) sudo htpasswdContinue reading “How to setup subversion on OSX”

Protected: Its a hard life

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Freedom of the press

Is it me or are the press TRYING to create a recession? Headlines suggesting that o Home owners are going to be worse off becaue the BOE lower interest rates? How is that supposed to work? o Borrowers are worse off because banks are withdrawing 100% mortgages (given house prices are falling its responsible to remove them!). Continue reading “Freedom of the press”

Promotion

It is often said that people are promoted to the level of their own incompetence, there is clearly truth in this in so much that if you were not out of ones depth one would be promoted. We get promoted until we cannot do the job we are assigned. Is it also true that weContinue reading “Promotion”

Business lesson Number One

People will see you how you present yourself. Your presentation is a function of your self imagine. Think once, think twice about HOW you see yourself, WHERE you see yourself. Reflect on this and adjust as required. If you have insecurities do not present yourself as a clown as that is exactly how you willContinue reading “Business lesson Number One”

Snow Snow Snow

Yesterday it snowed, in easter! (queue lots of randoms citing that global warming is clearly a myth, popular culture has a lot to answer for). We took the children to play in the snow which was kinda cool. Tom and Beth were both daft enuff to come stand under a tree with me (trigger scottContinue reading “Snow Snow Snow”