Author Archives: Gravybeard
NZ White Water Rafting
Me and Dan went White water rafting during our Camper van tour around the New Zealand’s North Island. This is apparently the worlds largest commercially rafted Water fall. Was epic Funs.
A L E S T O R M !!!!!
Yeah! Went to see Alestorm lastnight at the manning bar! Was all kinds of Awesome! Moshpit was Epic… totally battered and bruised! Met the band and invited them aboard the Ship.. maybe next time. Jacko passed out on the sofa and Dan seemed enjoy a bit of Bush surfing on the way home…
Ruben’s 6th Birthday
Madness as Ru and his friends descend on the bowling alley for his 6th Birthday. The angry birds Cake seemed to go down well with the kids… Here’s the obligatory singing and blowing out the candles video: Garr! I ‘ve such a lovely singin’ voice!
The Birth of Gravybeard – A year in the making!
Garr…. the day o’ March 18th 2010 be the day I first be layin’ me eye upon the good ship The Southern Swan! I can scarcely be belivin’ that I been a goode n’ proper pirate sailor fer a year now.
>See you soon
>Maybe something I said.. maybe something somebody said to me…. maybe evensome song lyrics. Either way It’s just some words that really meant somethingto me (or that was funny and memorable) over the past few months while we’vebeen changing countries. It’s been a busy and difficult time and I really wantedto atleast document something about … Continue reading
Australia: Week One
> Hey all! A quick montage of our exploits in Australia over the past week…. I only got the camera on sunday so that’s why it’s pretty sparse ! We’ve also looked at a few houses over the past week but the Sydney rental market is a little trickier than what we were used to … Continue reading
Resignation 2009
>Below is a copy of the actual resignation letter I handed in today. I used to work for a HUGE multi-national as an IT engineer and I’m leaving these dingy UK countryside for the sandy shores of sunny Sydney. Sadly neither my Manager or my Boss were available to accept the resignation so I had … Continue reading
HOWTO: KDE 4 and Google Pim data (akonadi)
>Hi, Wondering how to setup KDE with your favourite google PIM data ? The following howto is based on Ubuntu Karmic Koala but you can tailor it to your distro. Install the required packages for building $apt-get install build-essential libgcal-dev libgcal0 kdelibs5-dev kdepimlibs5-dev akonadi-kde Get the googledata Akonadi resource from KDE’s svn $ svn co … Continue reading
>Solaris Password change one liner
>I searched for a while this morning looking for a quick and simple answer to a very simple question: “How can I set a password non-interactively for a user on Solaris 10 ?”. Under Linux this job is very simple (use the ‘-p’ option to useradd) but for Solaris I found ridiculous posts about admins … Continue reading