Monthly Archives: August 2006

I feel so a-gadoo-shamed

Clares mum is here at home with us whilst we wait for the baby to come. This just happened:-

mum: “Sophie, go and ask Daddy what the words to Agadoo are”
Sophie: “Daddy, what are the words to Agadoo?”
me:
alan@hactar:/mnt/music$ find | grep -i agadoo
./Various Artists/The_Best_Of_The_80s/Black lace. Agadoo.mp3
alan@hactar:/mnt/music$ beep-media-player \
./Various\ Artists/The_Best_Of_The_80s/Black\ lace.\ Agadoo.mp3 &

At which point …

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Metros I have been on

This meme seems to be doing the rounds.

Of course here in the UK where the underground rail system was first installed we just call it the “underground” or “tube”.

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Another convert to Free and Open Software

One of the guys in the office where I work is a true capitalist. He says he pays for software because it keeps the economy going. I can kind of see his argument, but my take is “why should I pay if I don’t have to?”.

I’ve had a wodge of Ubuntu CDs on my …

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Formatting hard disks for fun and profit

After seeing a story dugg on digg about recovering after you “accidentally wipe your hard drive”, it reminded me of a story I often recount but have never blogged.

Many years ago I worked as a contract helpdesk operative for Deloitte & Touche in London. They had a number of offices we supported near Blackfriars. …

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Screencasting Tech Talk

I recently gave a talk at my local Linux User Group about Screencasting called Recording desktop sessions to video. You can watch it by clicking the links on the Tech Talks page on my local LUG wiki. You can also watch it via google video.

I wasn’t completely happy with the talk as I’d rushed …

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