For the last 5 or so months now we’ve been doing almost all our grocery shopping online and having it delivered. We’ve used Ocado and Sainsbury’s, and here are some of our experiences.
Month: January 2006
Top 10 posts plugin
Mark Ghosh’s “Top 10 Posts plugin”, now featuring in my sidebar, is really quite good. Now I just need more posts…
Google just another brick in the Great Firewall of China?
Chuck Norris can touch MC Hammer
Pink!
…or raspberry.
Dana‘s new FJ series Sony Vaio arrived, and what a cute and girlie thing it is!
I might try installing a small Linux partition on it also, sometime.
Linux RAID best practices
I keep being asked about, or witnessing discussions of, how best to do RAID on Linux. I have a few recommendations I always make but I’m not off the top of my head able to name good sites to back them up. So, I’m currently writing an article on the wiki about Linux RAID best practices where I can state my own zealotry opinions and link to some other things.
It’s still a bit of a work in progress but I decided to blog about it now as there’s already some useful things on there.
Just so cute…
For no particular reason I was reading about greyhounds again today. I didn’t learn anything new (as a former greyhound owner of some 7 or 8 years), but the following passage (from Wikipedia) brought back some good memories:
Coin stacking
For those with too much free time and certainly too many small metal discs, perhaps coin stacking is for you?
Under the gun
Last night was my first game of “proper” friendly poker, specifically Texas Hold’em.
I’d been wanting to try poker for a while so we’d tried to organise a Strugglers poker night, and in the process I also got invited to one with people from work. As it turned out, Strugglers poker got postponed, leaving me a little worried that my first experience would be a bit more stressful than I would like — it would be with people I knew a little less well and for slightly higher stakes.
A Favicon for Cacti
I wrote an article on the wiki about how to install a Favicon for Cacti when you don’t want to dedicate a whole virtual host to it.