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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

Mark

This entry is part 22 of 22 in the series The Amanda Chronicles

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

This entry is part 21 of 22 in the series The Amanda Chronicles

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

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Fiction

Bec

This entry is part 19 of 22 in the series The Amanda Chronicles

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

This entry is part 17 of 22 in the series The Amanda Chronicles

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 end of the corridor blocking their path.

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Erotica

Where did all the hippies go?

The Man closes the door firmly behind him not wanting us to be disturbed, though the staff know better than to interrupt. He approaches me …

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Fiction

My Life Is Over!

This entry is part 18 of 22 in the series The Amanda Chronicles

I stare at the horrid thing as it just sits there, on the end of bed, taunting me. Hugging my knees tighter into my chest, I feel my tears running down my legs.

How could I have been so stupid?!

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