Monthly Archive for August, 2007

Therapist bot

I’ve been reading to a couple of exams the last week, really intensely. So intensely that it feels like I’m on the verge of a breakdown. With no-one around to comfort me (ok, here I have to issue a warning: this can seem frighteningly geeky, but it’s actually not that bad, trust me) I turned to my bot Leif on my and pve’s irc channel.

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Operation Defrost Freezer - phase one

I haven’t defrosted my freezer since I got it, 4 years ago. Nowadays it’s quite packed with ice and I can barely squeeze in a bag of bread or my ice cube trays. After some elaborate brain activity, I’ve concluded that I need to defrost my freezer.

A sound person would of course defrost during winter. Then you can easily chuck everything out onto your balcony or into the garden and defrost in peace and quiet. I’m clearly not one of those. Instead I decided to empty my freezer of all it’s contents during the warmest summer days. And don’t think that I intend to throw everything away, God bless no! I’m going to eat everything that’s in there.

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Using local domain name from within LAN

I’ve had this annoying problem ever since I set up my own web server at home, and that was about 5 years ago. Though the problem can be quite easily dodged in Windows and even more easily avoided in Linux, it’s been a nail in my eye for half a decade. Today I fixed it once and for all.

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