Aled Treharne on July 13th, 2006

What is it about a dealership that makes you bad? To get a set of replacement keys for the ones I lost, I contacted the dealership. They told me that they could sell me a new key along with a “Emergency Key Access” code (EKA code) which would disarm the alarm and immobiliser allowing me […]

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Aled Treharne on July 11th, 2006

Yup, Christian is arranging it this year so that people can sponsor us by running a marathon or half-marathon. If you’re interested, more details on the news article on the team’s website.

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Aled Treharne on July 10th, 2006

Google of the Future… . I’ve lost my keys today. Car keys, house keys, the whole lot. I hope some responsible person will find them and hand them in. Until then, I’m going to go home, get in using a set of keys I left with a friend (can’t do that with car key unfortunately) […]

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Aled Treharne on July 8th, 2006

Waiting for news The police, team members, friends and family all wait anxiously for the casualty to arrive Originally uploaded by aledt. Friday, and a callout. I’d left the office and picked up the minibus ready for picking up the cadets tomorrow morning. I was already on the way to pick Lynfa up when the […]

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“Aled, foo’s site is down, it’s mysql refusing connections….” WTF? So I go looking and sure enough foo’s mysql server has a load of 100% of which mysql is grabbing that almost exclusively. Disk space is fine, hrm, weird, what’s causing mysql to crap itself. Log in and check “show processlist”…wtf? Yes, that’s about 50-ish […]

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Aled Treharne on July 6th, 2006

Well, it’s not actually, but it is raining at last. Hopefully this should break the hot spell we’ve had and make it a bit more bearable as well as keeping the pollen down. As I write this, there’s a callout just started in Llanthony where there’s a young female having breathing difficulties. Between work commitments, diesel […]

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Aled Treharne on July 3rd, 2006

I went the Post Office this morning to post Sean’s parcel. I hit a bit of a snag. When I got the post office, I couldn’t sent it air mail, it would have to go “International Ground Priority” beacause it was over 2Kg in weight. Oh well, I thought, not a problem. That is, until […]

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