Category Archives: Personal

Anything relating to myself.

Living Without Twitter

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Jethro Carr

It’s been an interesting 10+ days since I took my twitter holiday and 4+ days since I deleted my account. It’s been interesting, not a total success yet, I do use my placeholder account from time-to-time to check out the … Continue reading →

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Free At Last

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Jethro Carr

By now I presume you have read my Infodrugs post where I recently decided to take a Twitter holiday. This has now progressed a step further, with me taking steps to terminate my Twitter account entirely. Twitter has been the … Continue reading →

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Wellington 13th to 17th

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’ll be in Wellington from Monday the 13th till Friday the 17th of Feb on various customer work projects that can’t be done via a remote shell. Due to the nature of the work I’m not sure what evenings I’ll … Continue reading →

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Infodrugs

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’ve taken a spontaneous holiday. Not to some exotic location or escape from daily life, but rather a Twitter holiday, logging out of my account, removing it from my laptop, my phone and any other system I use. I’m still trying … Continue reading →

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Wynyard Crossing

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Jethro Carr

As part of my mission to get out and explore Auckland some more, I’ve been down at Wynyard Quarter a bit. It’s quite a neat and relatively recent development in Auckland, with several trendy bars/food places and a pedestrian friendly … Continue reading →

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A goodbye to #geekflat

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Whilst I’ve been an official Aucklander for a few months now, I’ve been sort of ignoring the whole end of an era going on with my awesome, amazing time in Wellington at the place known only as #geekflat. As of … Continue reading →

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So I might have gotten slightly engaged….

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Jethro Carr

You may recall that this time last year I met a very lovely lady and becoming somewhat attached to her. On the 29th of January it was our 1 yr “official” anniversary, which we spent in Wellington. I realised there’s … Continue reading →

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Wellington Visit

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’ll be heading down to Wellington to escape the Auckland anniversary long weekend and spending a few days catching up with friends and family. I’ll be bringing Lisa down with me too, so we can inflict the poor long-suffering people … Continue reading →

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Intel 320 SSD stats & encryption

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I recently obtained a 120GB Intel 320 SSD for upgrading my Lenovo Thinkpad X201i from it’s sluggish hard disk to something with a bit sharper performance. Whilst not the latest and highest performance SSD from Intel, it’s certainly still very … Continue reading →

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Great Ocean Roadtrip

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

The weekend before linux.conf.au, I decided to go on a roadtrip with @chrisjrn down south of Melbourne for a roadtrip through the rural areas and along the Great Ocean Road. I started the trip with a pickup from @chrisjrn from … Continue reading →

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