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I’ve written about my woes finding some good test data sets for PowerTime before…some good news. There is a place you can get hold of climate data for free over at European Climate Assessment & Dataset project. Whilst the temperature data is averaged, the precipitation data is not…so that’s what I’m going to use for [...]

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I passed the marker buoy on the journey to middle age last week. At least according to the Collins Dictionary anyway. Of course, according to the Oxford English Dictionary definition, I’ve got a further five years to go.
To celebrate I treat my family (all twelve of them) to a play at the Theatre [...]

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You wanna do what? Ventriloquism on radio? Oh sure…sounds great. You can start next week!
Currently being re-run on BBC Radio 7 is the Educating Archie show. Which features Peter Brough & Archie Andrews his ventriloquist dummy.
I wonder if Brough used to take Archie to recording sessions? I mean, without it you’d just have a routine [...]

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Thanks to Ken @ Ingenity for suggesting the Vyatta open source router. Only question mark is whether it works “out of the box” in the UK? Comes in both software only form and as a pre-built appliance.
Others on the eval list are the DrayTek Vigor 2800 and Firebrick 105.
One major requirement is that it must, [...]

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I was bracing myself for a good morning wrestling upgrading The Tech Teapot. Turns out the upgrade took less than a minute.
I’m a happy blogger.
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If you just can’t get enough of The Tech Teapot and feel that your day isn’t complete without some more of my ravings you’ll be pleased to know that I also nano blog over at Twitter.
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Every time I look back on my first job I realise just how odd it was.
First off my job interview was in a pub. I was met by a couple of engineers and one of their wives. It did seem a bit strange having a job interview in the middle of a pub but hey, [...]

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Elastic Path are enterprise e-commerce software developers. We use Elastic Path software as the e-commerce platform on this website. For the second release in a row they haven’t provided a mechanism to import an existing product database into their new release.
I have never come across another software company who hasn’t provided at least some form [...]

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