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etckeeping git

Mark Brown — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:10:33 +0000

Working with multiple upstream kernel trees and keeping an eye on more my git repositories tend to end up with large numbers of remotes (this laptop has 22, for example). It’s getting to the point where I need something like etckeeper to keep track of them all.

Sunday afternoons

Mark Brown — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:16:18 +0000

I do most of my reading in the atumn and winter. In the afternoon when the day is still I sit on my sofa, listen to music and read. On those days the light is grey and soft, casting shadows not much darker than the light itself – if you hold the page flat you can see the grain in the paper. During the summer there’s always some reason to do other things. In the winter there is so little natural light I feel I’m just making the most of what there is.

Today I’m doing that for the first time this year; summer is ending early.

Wii cleaning

Mark Brown — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:20:08 +0000

My Wii had been feeling a little toasty (even when it had only been sitting in standby) and had had a few glitches recently. A quick blast with the vacuum cleaner and it’s now running a lot cooler in spite of no visible effect when doing so.

Going, going, gone

Mark Brown — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:32:39 +0000

Since my bike was stolen last Sunday (which was annoying, especially since it was taken from the stairs just outside my flat) I was without a bike until Wednesday night. This somehow managed to coincide with a couple of early meetings so rather than trust the buses I ended up walking into work like I used to do when I worked down on Leith Links. It takes about an hour, which is only 20 minutes more than the bus should do. I ought to do this more often. It does take up a lot of time but I felt a lot better for doing it – it’s not just the exercise, it’s an opportunity to zone out and do something a bit more meditative for a while. Cycling does the exercise thing but it’s usually much more stressful due to the greater speeds and rather direct dangers.

The old bike was a bit beaten up. especially after the collision with a car door last year, so I had been thinking about replacing it anyway. This was a good idea – the new one is much more fun to ride. Much less effort and no sticky brake.

First post

Mark Brown — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:34:29 +0000

There really ought to be at least one post here, so… Perhaps I will use this for something. From time to time I do have an urge to write something for the benefit of Planet Debian or so but I’ve not really anywhere to put such things except Advogato which is itself trying to be a community site.