South of the River

Posted in Railways on 24th April 2004

Up late last night, trying to decide what to do today. Not much inspiration on offer. Finally decided to travel to Horsham, via Epsom - a previously elusive new bit of track for me. This route would take me via Box Hill where Gissing visited Meredith, and Dorking where Gissing...

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gnome-pkgview 1.0.6 released

Posted in Packages on 23rd April 2004

gnome-pkgview is a tool for inspecting the versions of GNOME libraries installed on your system. The information is often useful when submitting bug reports or diagnosing system problems. Version 1.0.6 (Vintry) fixes a couple...

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Sunshine, Steaks and Lambchop

Posted in SHOFT on 19th April 2004

Out of work unusually early, after a weirdly elating day where a meeting goes less painfully than expected, I get a message to say two of tomorrow's appeal cases are withdrawn, and the school which went over number last week is magically back down to its Admission Level because a...

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