Whether you’re growing a mo’ or know a bro who’s got one on the go, you can’t escape Movember - the month of moustache. And we’re already half way through! As you might be able to tell from the pictures above I’m growing one myself this year and thus far have had curious glances, polite smiles and one “what is that on your lip! It’s even ginger!” in response.

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I’m writing this 30,000 feet in the air. Through the foggy porthole window I can see ships crossing the channel and sunlight reflecting red on the horizon. Shortly my flight will be descending into the London night-time and for a few minutes I will get to see London in a way that wasn’t possible over 100 years ago.

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Re-con-cil-iation, the word alone sends a shudder down my spine. Tying numbers together across months of work, huge volumes of data and complex processing is no simple task, however it’s such a robust method of QA that you ignore it at your peril.

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I've been working with system configuration utility Chef over the last few months and I was disappointed to learn that it didn't provide support for Mercurial (Hg) version control…so I did what any good open-sourcer would and built it myself.

This brief tutorial explains how to use the simple Hg package that I wrote for Chef.

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After three years running my own mail and calendar servers, I found I no longer had the time to upgrade, fiddle and face the downtime that comes with running my own service. It was time to pick up my mail and make the move to Google Apps.

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