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Should I attend my department Christmas Lunch?

My department Christmas Lunch will this year be at Bon Viveur, a relatively new restaurant in Bristol. For reasons of ‘equality for lunch non-attendees’ (more like ‘budgetary pressure’, I reckon), The Company will not be subsidising employees’ departmental Christmas lunches … Continue reading

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Kush or Berry? Bish or Kurry? Bsh…Krry…mmmph

I stayed up until 1am, printing some of our holiday photos for Kathy to take into college on the last day of her course, and proof-reading her last essay. I just happened to be following the early election results progress, … Continue reading

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By the way

If you would rather not receive our e-mail updates regarding our tour of Europe then let us know by e-mailing tim(at)timandkathy.co.uk or kathy(at)timandkathy.co.uk.

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Things to make and do

Install BBEdit Lite on my Mac. Install the mtgravatar” plugin on the blog. Spring-Summer-clean the Mac. Only 1.5 GB space left! Find out why people will pay over the odds for iPods on eBay. Actually, that could be trickier…

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Rescued from the Bitbucket

This hasn’t been the longest period of silence in the history of It Could Be Worse, but I had a valid excuse this time. While upgrading us to ADSL, Plusnet deleted my blog, photo gallery and database. They restored the … Continue reading

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MT 3

I’ve just upgraded to Movable Type 3.0 Developers’ Edition. The upgrade went without a hitch. Now to see if I can convert from Berkeley DB to MySQL… UPDATE I had previously run the mt-db2sql.cgi script, and got an error to … Continue reading

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Why do I do this?

I haven’t posted to this blog for over a month. I’m not really sure why, to be honest. It’s not as if I made a conscious decision not to blog; I just couldn’t be bothered. I do have a bit … Continue reading

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23rd Post

Keith told me to: Go into your blog’s archives. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Posted on August 18, … Continue reading

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Please bear with us

We’re having a little problem with the blog. It can be summarised thus: PlusNet, in their infinite wisdom, installed a new CGI web server. To be fair to them, the upgrade was much needed. But lo! Why did they have … Continue reading

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Rules

After some abuse of the comments system, mostly by dirty spammers, I have decided to implement the following set of rules. Any contraventions shall be punished by deletion and IP-address banning. No commercial posts (i.e. spam). No swearing or foul … Continue reading

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