MrCeri
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Backup forecast – still cloudy

08 Jan 2012

It’s been barely a fortnight since I came up with my cloudy backup plan, and already I’ve been tinkering! I’ve simplified things by removing one of the portable USB drives, making the remaining USB drive the central hub of my digital activity, and by ditching “Remember the Milk”. And if you stand back from your [...]
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Cloudy with a chance of backups

22 Dec 2011

Ah, personal digital data backup. The technology equivalent of home contents insurance. Pretty boring stuff – boring, that is, until your house burns down, destroying your valuable collection of Barry Manilow LPs, your precious bee keeping magazines, and that photo taken only seconds after you shot JFK from the grassy knoll. (I didn’t even know [...]
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Latest freelance project: T&RS Engineering

05 Nov 2011

Life’s been pretty manic lately, a hectic workload at the day-job, a new mini-human demanding perpetual nourishment and shelter, and 3 other hungry humans requiring clothing and feeding on practically a daily basis. What better time to take on some after-hours freelance work!? The work in question was a brand new website for rail maintenance [...]
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I'm MrCeri, a software developer from Cardiff, UK.

This is my website where I share the free software that I build, and ramble about my geeky interests on my blog.

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26 Jan 2012

My kind of privacy policy: http://skipity.com/privacy

18 Jan 2012

Hmm, the Motorola Defy Plus vs. the Orange San Francisco II…? (the Defy+ is clearly better, but twice the price…)

18 Jan 2012

You know I love those Rube Goldberg machines! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMIBdM6N7Q

12 Jan 2012

I welcome the proposals to get kids learning to program while still in school (see new reports here, here and here), but I wonder whether we have the teaching skills to carry it off? Then again, maybe this will tempt experienced programmers into teaching roles…

03 Jan 2012

If kids really are the future, how come mine get to spend another day watching Thundercats in their pyjamas while I have to go back to work?

02 Jan 2012

Not hating PHP as much as I remember. I suppose a change really is as good as a rest.

21 Dec 2011

Don’t know how to write this without sounding like an infomercial, but I notice that the PortableApps team released a big update this month, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. I’ve been using PortableApps for years now to take the pain out of using multiple desktops and laptops - and to top it off, it’s free :o)

18 Dec 2011

I recognise plenty of my own experiences in this piece from the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/12/voices-of-finance-it-consultant-developer. Leaving the financial sector may have lightened my pay cheque, but the work I’ve done since has been so much more rewarding.

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