Jamie's Rants

rant verb (ranted, ranting) 1 intrans to talk in a loud, angry, pompous way. 2 tr & intr to declaim in a loud, pompous, self-important way. noun 1 loud, pompous, empty speech. 2 an angry tirade. ranter noun someone, especially a preacher, who rants. ranting noun, adj. rantingly adverb. ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from Dutch ranten to rave.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Short Reviews: The King's Head, Coltishall, Norfolk

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A good gastropub in deepest darkest Norfolk, the King's Head in Coltishall has a fairly standard menu* apart from the fact that about ha...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Short Reviews: Fish Fish, Archway/Highgate

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I'm often amazed at how difficult it can be to find a decent chippie; how hard can it be to take a piece of fresh fish, dip it in egg, m...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Short Reviews: Plum Valley, Chinatown

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A posh Chinese apparently sanitised for western palettes. The crispy shredded beef was nice and crispy but didn't taste like it had ever...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Google Chrome Browser Issues

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I've used Chrome a few times since it was released, and it's very fast, but for me, it's just not quite there yet, there are the...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Self Certificated Sick Leave

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Please say briefly why you were incapable of work for the period stated above, words like unwell or illness are insufficient. I had a fever,...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Using Outlook Web Access

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Since my work seem to be refusing to enable IMAP on their new Exchange server and I refuse to use Outlook, which is just too slow and cumber...
Thursday, February 04, 2010

Facebook Stream_Get, Offline_Access and getFilters Not Working

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I am not sure whether I am being stupid, the Facebook API documentation is really bad or the Facebook API just doesn't really work very ...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The TV Licence Swindle

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So I want to buy a TV licence and pay for it monthly. Simples right? Wrong. It is Jan 20th 2010, so my £142.50 licence will run until Jan 20...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Converting Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY Fields To Points

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Just because Google didn't help. SELECT Alias.FieldName.SDO_POINT.X, Alias.FieldName.SDO_POINT.Y FROM TableName Alias The alias seems to...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Short Reviews: Kim Noble Will Die, Soho Theatre

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Let me preface this with the letters I, A, C, N, A, A and C, that is, I am certainly not an art critic. In fact, not only do I not know anyt...
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