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Ninety-Freakin'-One Percent!
That’s my YSlow rating for the BMTG website. It’s taken me a year but I’ve done it. The only thing missing – that elusive 9% – is a CDN. But I’m not going to have that so I now have the highest rating I can achieve. Once this site is at its new host, I’ll…
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Running Kubuntu under VirtualBox
I’ve written a number of times on this topic, but thought I’d bring it all up to date and draw all the various, disparate posts together. I use Kubuntu, not as my main OS, but for web development testing, which means I need a broad cross-section of Linux browsers. Therefore I run Kubuntu for it’s…
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Upgrading Kubuntu
So, I started up my copy of Kubuntu, running under VirtualBox. For ages it’s been saying that there are no updates available for it, which is odd, so I ran it manually. This time I found a version update available – updating to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). So I ran it. Now, in the past when…
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The new Doctor
So, Matt Smith will be the next Doctor Who. What do I think? I’ve been quite a fan of Doctor Who mainly since David Tennant came into the role – he has truly been superb. But his reign is coming to an end and so a replacement is needed. But I don’t know Matt Smith.…
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Cat Swap
A few weeks ago the number of felines in our house doubled. My father-in-law, downsizing his house, decided to get rid of his 2 cats. He was never the cat lover, and he wasn’t really dedicating the time to them that they needed. So, Jasmine, the friendly on the pair, came to live with us.…