David's Blog

I’m a full-time Firefox user. It’s a truly great browser. It’s easy to use, pretty quick, and stable. At work, I very often end up with a single session running all week, chopping and changing tabs. I’ve got quite a few add-ons in there too. Some are quite trivial, and some do some pretty useful stuff.

Firefox 3 added quite a few new features, one of which is the AwesomeBar. I don’t think that’s the official name, but that’s what people are tending to call it.

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The nice folks at VMWare recently made ESXi ‘free’. I put that in quotes because the licence gets you the server and Virtual Infrastructure (VI) client, but you still need to pony up for the extra management stuff, and fun toys like VMotion.

ESXi is very stripped down too, and missing a lot of commands useful for rolling your own backups. Still, it’s a very valuable thing to have.

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On Monday evening, we were treated to a storm around 21:00. The weather had been pretty hot, and storms had been forecast. I was sitting watching the TV and spotted some nice big clouds racing our way, and some lightning.

I immediately jumped out of my chair and went to the back garden and stood and watched for a few moments. The storm clouds were skirting around us; directly above was fairly clear sky. I saw a flash of lightning. “If that flashes again really soon, I’ll get my camera” I thought. Mere seconds later, another big flash of lightning came.

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