Tim's Bits and Pieces

Well, I've missed the first week of January deadline for publishing the first chapter.

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I've had a few things I've felt like saying over the last little while, so I've decided to try starting up my blog again. We'll see how it goes.

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Sorry for the lack of posts recently; I've been up north in Townsville for the last two months. I have had access to the Internet (I've even been working), but I just haven't been able to get up the motivation to post. Hopefully I'll get up a ten things update and at least one real post (I've got a few book and movie reviews I want to post, so probably one or two of them) this week. In the meantime here's a picture of Florence Bay on Magnetic Island I took over the weekend.

I'm back in Australia now, and to relieve your minds I'm not dead. ;-) I'll probably even start posting new blog posts soon.

I just reminded myself how dangerous 'rm *' is. I deleted the copies of all the posts on my blog from my local system. Fortunately I had backups of all but the most recent 8 posts, and I could recover them easily enough, but this has reminded me to make my "daily" backups more regular than once a fortnight, and convinced me to add 'alias rm="rm -i"' back to my .bash_aliases.

Eeek, it's been over a month since my last post and a month and a half since my last real post. :-( I've been working way too much overtime, and the procrastination hasn't helped either.

As promised here's my review of NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, my current web host.

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I missed posting last weekend because I was away, but I've got some good news to make up for it:

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I'm moving my blog to a new host: NearlyFreeSpeach.NET and to a new domain http://blog.timp.com.au.

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A few things of note:

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