Aled Treharne on November 22nd, 2006

In a conversation with a certain Senior Developer: […] Me: Ya, thanks. Fuck you too. 😛 Him: sorry, you’re not my type.  hairy?  check.  welsh?  check.  female?  bzzz 😛 Me: You like hairy welsh females? Er, ok. Me: But your wife doesn’t ahve a beard… Him: there are no other types  I worry about this […]

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Aled Treharne on October 24th, 2006

[13:48:16] Jon Pearse says: mysql> delete from table WHERE foo=’a’ AND tableId=8169; Query OK, 1 row affected (4.39 sec) [13:48:21] Jon Pearse says: Holy shit [13:48:27] Jon Pearse says: That scared the crap out of me Yup, that’s a crap and very busy server. (For the non-techies, a simple query like that should take a […]

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Aled Treharne on October 23rd, 2006

Ok, so I don’t do memes. Ever. Not really. But I kinda like this one, so I figured I’d better. If you comment on this thread… 1) I shall respond with something random I like about you. 2) I shall tell you what song, movie or book reminds me of you. 3) I shall name […]

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Aled Treharne on October 19th, 2006

Some nights ago I came home to find Senghenydd wrapped in a heavy blanket of fog. In between the car and the house, I took a quick photo to see how my new camera copes with night – and it did quite well. I quite like this photograph…

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Aled Treharne on October 19th, 2006

Saturday will be the 40th anniversary of the worst Welsh disaster of the 20th century. At around 9:15am on the 21st October 1966, slag heap No. 7 which was perched above the village became waterlogged with a combination of recent heavy rain and underground springs slid down the hill into the village of Aberfan, destroying […]

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Aled Treharne on October 9th, 2006

So it’s mid-afternoon on Charles street, and noises outside attract our attention. A police van has pulled up to discuss appropriate behaviour with a group of Chavs. Drinks are poured down the drain, one or two seem to be detained. Another day on Charles Street. Cheers, boys.

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Aled Treharne on June 13th, 2006

Well, what a fun day. Today we finally got approval to change from a proprietary concurrent versioning system to Subversion. It was also the day we had permission to take our core product to a new level by standardising accross all of our customers and starting the long road towards a periodic release and patching […]

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Aled Treharne on June 12th, 2006

Gah. What a night. I was intent on going to bed early last night because I was actually quite tired. So I went up and was talking to Sean until 0100…oops. Dropped off to sleep easily enough though… …to be woken at around 0200 by my legs itching. On Saturday Jon and I went a-wandering […]

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