Category Archives: RealLife

Background downloading to the Belkin N+

July 12, 2010 – 12:28 pm

Not so long ago I decided to upgrade my router with a nice shiny new one. I opted for the Belkin N+ (the F5D8635uk4A to be overly specific). It’s a nice router, with a bundle of features that I don’t really intend to use. One feature that’s great tho’ is the built-in USB port, which [...]

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Book-a-month

October 29, 2009 – 8:56 pm

I’m a slow reader. It’s not a bad thing, but where some people I know can read a novel in a couple days, I will use up my lunchtime reading a ten-page short story. It can take some motivation to decide to read a novel – hence my preference for the short story. A 300-page [...]

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Random files and Image Stitching in DOS

August 20, 2009 – 8:30 pm

I’m a bit of a fan of command prompts and batch files. Geeky yes, and most other geeks would probably hate the fact that I rather like doing things in Windows command line interpreter (cmd.exe). “Hey, I could find a random file in a single-line perl script, and it would stitch two images together, and [...]

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Flickrs

January 19, 2009 – 8:30 pm

I’ve had a few people mentioning that I’ve not been posting more photos of Jamie here, so a very quick pointer to my Flickr page, where I occasionally post new pictures.

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Welcome James…

October 1, 2008 – 9:58 pm

On Monday morning, September 29th 2008, at 2:37am (BST), my wife Catherine gave birth to James Cooper, our son, weighing 7lb 13oz. James is our first child, and so far parenthood is proving to be rather… surreal. You don’t really notice that anything has changed, until at some point you realise that almost everything has. [...]

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Moving Houses

June 25, 2008 – 8:57 pm

Tonight is the last night we’ll spend in our current house, Mrs.Bod and I. Tomorrow we move to a new house, on the other side of town. A brand new house, un-lived in by anyone (apart from a handful of woodlice). I’d say that I’m excited at the prospect – but frankly I’m just tired. [...]

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Image Enhancement

May 5, 2008 – 10:19 pm

We’ve been quite busy of late (please, no crude comments about recent announcements). Aside from the whole “family-starting” thing, Mrs.Bod and myself are in the process of selling our current house (where numerous demoparties have been held) and buying a new place. Of course we want to optimize our available space when we move, so [...]

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