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	<title>Chris Harcourt</title>
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	<description>Infrequent Thoughts, Writings, Rantings, &#38; Code</description>
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		<title>Uptime Records</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2010/03/09/uptime-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omicron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uptime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This makes me happy &#8211; to have 99% uptime over 3 years or so.
It also makes me sad &#8211; to have missed out beating my previous record.

chris@omicron ~ $ uprecords
     #               Uptime &#124; System    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omicron Upgrade</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2010/03/09/omicron-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2010/03/09/omicron-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bytemark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omicron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vm]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.charcourt.com/?p=450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months I&#8217;ve been noticing that my virtual server (omicron) has been frequently using over 80% of it&#8217;s available memory. This is likely due to the fact I started hosting a ruby on rails application (redmine) which means another set of processes (mongrel cluster) running the whole time in addition to what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>File Synchronisation With Unison</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2010/03/07/file-synchronisation-with-unison/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2010/03/07/file-synchronisation-with-unison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unison is an application which allows files to be synchronised between local or remote directories. I find it incredibly useful for keeping my documents etc synchronised between my various computers. I use it for many things, including my ~70GB music collection so I can verify that it can handle large(ish) amounts of data.
Unison is cross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Updates</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/10/19/site-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/10/19/site-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I&#8217;ve had a bit of a reorganisation on charcourt.com. I&#8217;ve split this blog off onto a separate subdomain (blog.charcourt.com) and redone the main site using DokuWiki (www.charcourt.com).
The migration went pretty smoothly, with only some bits of content left to move.
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		<title>Compass, JPA &amp; Spring, or How I Added Searching in a Few Hours</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/08/13/compass-jpa-and-spring-or-how-i-added-searching-in-a-few-hours/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/08/13/compass-jpa-and-spring-or-how-i-added-searching-in-a-few-hours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just added full search support to a web application in about 3 hours.
That&#8217;s all the data model objects automatically indexed, a proper query language for searching, and mapping between the search result and model objects so dealing with results is easy. All in a few hours &#8211; not bad going for an afternoon&#8217;s work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desktop Theming &amp; Panels</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/08/03/desktop-theming-and-panels/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/08/03/desktop-theming-and-panels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GNOME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theme]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve spent some time playing around with the theme and panels I use. I haven&#8217;t changed much from what I&#8217;ve been using for a while, but there were a couple of subtle changes.
Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve ended up with, on my laptop at least (from the default Ubuntu 9.04 settings):

Industrial Tango theme (apt: industrialtango-theme).
Compiz desktop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JME Utilities</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/07/30/jme-utilities/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2009/07/30/jme-utilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JMEUtils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I am releasing a collection of JME utilities to the world, in the hope that someone might find them useful. They&#8217;re free software under an Apache license.
More details, and downloads can be found here.
This is a collection of various helper/utility classes that I&#8217;ve written over the years to solve various problems in JME applications. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Year&#8217;s Uptime</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/11/11/one-years-uptime/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/11/11/one-years-uptime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=91</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed that I&#8217;ve tipped one year&#8217;s worth of uptime on omicron.
Woo yeah!
]]></description>
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		<title>Essential Eclipse Plugins</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/07/05/essential-eclipse-plugins/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/07/05/essential-eclipse-plugins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the release of Eclipse 3.4 &#8220;Ganymede&#8221; I&#8217;ve had to reinstall all of the plugins I use. So, I decided to share with the world the suite of plugins that I use. I use the Eclipse JEE bundle since this already includes much of what I want &#8211; if you use a different bundle YMMV.
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring WS, Tomcat 6, Java 6 &#8211; Problems &amp; A Simple Solution</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/06/20/spring-ws-tomcat-6-java-6-problems-and-a-simple-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/06/20/spring-ws-tomcat-6-java-6-problems-and-a-simple-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a project using Spring WS recently. During development I run/test webapps using the Maven Jetty plugin. All was well, everythings works as expected, and I was at a stage where I needed to deploy on a Tomcat 6 server for some larger scale testing. In the past I have had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>200+ Days Uptime</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/06/13/200-days-uptime/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/06/13/200-days-uptime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed that my server has been up for over 200 days. I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s the longest it&#8217;s ever been up continuously. Most of the reboots have been for upgrades (or a hosting move) but there have been some problems along the way.
The box is now handling around 10GB of traffic every month, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband Frustrations</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/06/11/broadband-frustrations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/06/11/broadband-frustrations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online & WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I upgraded my living situation a few weeks ago (moved into a new house share with 2 friends) I&#8217;ve been without an internet connection. We ended up having to wait 2 weeks for BT to &#8220;install&#8221; our phone line (in quotes since it was physically already there), then around 10 days for the ISP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ThinkLighting The Way</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/05/03/thinklighting-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/05/03/thinklighting-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 01:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on my second ThinkPad now. Last year I replaced my failing T42 with a T60. Both had/have ThinkLights, but I&#8217;ve never seen the point in them before&#8230;
Right now though, sitting in the garden at night, I finally see the point (I can see my keyboard!!!). Mind you, it&#8217;s irrelevant how well lit my laptop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lots Of Upgrades!</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/03/05/lots-of-upgrades/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/03/05/lots-of-upgrades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/2008/03/05/lots-of-upgrades/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After putting off upgrades on omicron for ages (I was busy), this week I finally found the time. So, I&#8217;m now running:

Apache 2.2.8
Tomcat 6.0.16
MySQL 5.0.54
Subversion 1.4.6

Woo yeah for them all running smoothly! I was especially happy that converting my Tomcat 5.5 configuration to 6.0 was easy.
As a bonus upgrade, I&#8217;ve switched the theme on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIDP Low-Level UI Pains</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/03/03/midp-low-level-ui-pains/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2008/03/03/midp-low-level-ui-pains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/2008/03/03/midp-low-level-ui-pains/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of week I&#8217;ve been doing some work with the MIDP low level UI API. I&#8217;ve used the API before, but not for anything that complex. This time however I am building a set of fairly complex rich UI screens, so it&#8217;s been a good opportunity to really get to grips with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Turns 30</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/11/22/the-internet-turns-30/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/11/22/the-internet-turns-30/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online & WWW]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/2007/11/22/the-internet-turns-30/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in my RSS reader caught my eye today. elharo writes:
The Internet is 30 today. Exactly 30 years ago today on November 22, 1977 the first three networks were connected to become the Internet
Think how far we&#8217;ve come&#8230;
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		<title>VM Upgrades</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/11/20/vm-upgrades/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/11/20/vm-upgrades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sysadmin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, yesterday evening bytemark finally got around to upgrading the host machine for my VM server. The upgrade itself went smoothly, so I now have 300MB of memory and 20GB of disc space (at no extra cost). Woo for me  
I did however have some problems getting the server to come back online again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calendar/Contacts Synchronization with ScheduleWorld</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/11/10/calendarcontacts-synchronization-with-scheduleworld/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/11/10/calendarcontacts-synchronization-with-scheduleworld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online & WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/2007/11/10/calendarcontacts-synchronization-with-scheduleworld/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I found a solution to a problem which has been nagging me for a while (ever since I switched to IMAP email actually). The problem? Synchronizing calendars and contact between my desktop and laptop PCs. 
The solution I found is ScheduleWorld, a free synchronization service which allows you to share calendars, contacts, tasks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iAudio X5 File System Issue</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/10/08/iaudio-x5-file-system-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/10/08/iaudio-x5-file-system-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I decided I needed a walk to clear my head (too much work, too little sleep) so, I found myself wanting to copy some new music* onto my iAudio X5L, something I haven&#8217;t done in a while. Like, since when I first bought and filled it a year ago. &#8220;No problem&#8221; thinks me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Share &amp; Enjoy</title>
		<link>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/10/07/share-enjoy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.charcourt.com/2007/10/07/share-enjoy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harcourt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charcourt.com/2007/10/07/share-enjoy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started using a wiki to hold random notes/guides/etc that I&#8217;ve made. It&#8217;s publicly accessible but not publicly editable. I&#8217;ve decided to put it online on the off chance that the information is useful to someone else (hey, it&#8217;s useful to me&#8230;). There&#8217;s not much there at the moment, but I&#8217;ll be updating it as [...]]]></description>
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