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Welcome to my Secret Diary of a Geek home page. Here you will find lots of geeky information, so please have a browse around. I am a web and application developer, and published author.

If you are looking for something a bit less technical you might be interested in reading some of my fiction, but only if you are old enough.

Blog

Having worked in IT for several decades I have a few things to say. Here you will find the good, bad and ugly of the tech world. Often technical, sometimes personal, and hopefully interesting.

Please enjoy and contact me if you have any comments.

N54L

Upgrading my HP N54L Microserver

I have a server rack, I guess I had better fill it 🙂
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AIOBuilds

Don’t do this to your AIO

Using an AIO is the easiest way to get into water cooling, but there is a right way … and a very wrong way.
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Builds

The ‘Worst Case of 2019’ is great!

I built a PC in the ‘Worst Case of 2019’ … and I liked it so much I did another one.
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FrontAccounting

Exchange Rate feed from RBA

I have made changes to the Exchange Rates function to include the RBA as a FrontAccounting Exchange Rate provider.
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Ubuntu

Ubuntu 20.04 gksu replacement

After upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04, I could not run GUIs as root and gksu is gone. This is how I fixed that.
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AWS

Amazon Lightsail with CloudWatch Monitoring

I’m running several Amazon Lightsail instances as WordPress servers, which has been very successful, however I have been unable to monitor them effectively – until ...
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Fiction

Just for fun I have been writing fiction.

Please enjoy and contact me if you have any comments.

Fiction

Kelly

I wipe away another tear. The bastard!
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Fiction

Kim

“I don’t think so Am.” says Bec slowly shaking her head.
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Fiction

Mark

Entering the South Building girl's loos I find Tracy by the basins looking grim next to three Year 11 girls.
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Fiction

Suze

I’ve had enough of your attitude, you ungrateful little girl.
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Fiction

Bec

I don't wanna go to Kindy. I wanna stay with Mummy. Why canna I stay with Mummy?
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Fiction

The Hottest Girl in Year 9

They see us coming as they are standing by their lockers. They turn to flee, but Bec, Suze and Trace are approaching from the other ...
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