September 2006 Archives - Neil Turner's Blog

September 30, 2006
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Theoretical

I now have a date for my theory test, and it’s 2 weeks on Monday, at 10am.
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September 29, 2006
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The World of Warcraft realm that Hari and I play on has been down all day for the second time this week – it was offline all day Wednesday for hardware upgrades and again today due to some problems with players getting disconnected en masse.
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September 27, 2006
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Thoughts on the new Firefox theme

Firefox 2.0 Release candidate 1 is out and with it comes what should be the final version of the new theme for the browser.
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September 27, 2006
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Movable Type 3.33

In what has to be the first security fix in a very long time, Movable Type 3.33 has been released to patch up several currently-undisclosed flaws which were found internally by Six Apart themselves.
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September 26, 2006
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Sickly Server

As anyone who tried to access this site today will have noticed, it has suffered some downtime.
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September 24, 2006
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Randomness on tap

Spent most of the weekend asleep, to be honest, as well as playing World of Warcraft, though Hari and I did go out on Friday night. Upper Street, the boyband formed out of spare ex-members of other pop groups for … Continue reading →

September 22, 2006
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Lots of free stuff

Today was the Freshers Fair, an annual event where various local and national businesses try to court students into visiting them/signing up to their services by giving away copious amounts of free stuff.
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September 19, 2006
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Banned substances

Here’s something I didn’t know – Irn-Bru, a fizzy drink that is arguably more popular than water in its native Scotland, is, according to Wikipedia, banned in the US.
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September 19, 2006
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