Darren Beale

Where be that Blackbird to?

The Wurzels have a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurzels The name of the band came from the fodder beet Mangelwurzel. As can be determined from the subject matter of many of their songs, cider is very popular amongst Wurzels and their fans. Their particular “genre” of music has been named “Scrumpy And Western” (scrumpy is a name given to [...]

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Vim: Enough tabs already

Scenario: You are connected to a Linux webserver via a Windows terminal client such as PuTTy. You copy some text to paste into a Vim document open on the remote machine and you get tab hell: Here’s an example of something I pasted in tonight: [code] ServerAdmin webmaster@host.some_domain.com [...]

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