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These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
For the last few days I’ve been working on a simple web-based Twitter client, to fill the void between the simplicity of Twitter’s own web interface and the broken-in-IE6 complexity of BeTwittered and Seesmic Desktop’s web interface. It’s still under heavy development, and there are probably a ton of bugs...
“Forgotten Children” is an idea that’s been kicking around my head for a long while, and it’s always felt like it ought to be novel-length, albeit possibly a short novel. For several years I’ve laboured under the misapprehension that it might be publishable, and that if it was, I should...
This is a thought exercise around the idea of an idealised democracy. I do not pretend that it is likely to be achieved at any point, nor do intend to actively campaign for it. Your thoughts and comments are welcome. On the whole my country, the United Kingdom, does Democracy...
Yesterday Morning Stimuli: Coffee, Neuromancer Software items successfully written: 0 Yesterday Evening Stimuli: Curry, Beer Software items successfully written: 1 I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
In a fit of last-minute coding, I’ve produced version 0.1 of my automated team-picker for the Premier League’s Fantasy Football game. (If you’re intending on playing, you only have 12 hours left to get your team in before the start of the season!) Its purpose is to analyse player stats,...
I am now, apparently, a level 4 Software Engineer! In summary: Hit Die: +4 HP Abilities: +1 WIS Meta: +1 Base Attack Bonus, +1 Will Save Skills: +2 Knowledge (Software), +2 Use Arcane Device, +1 Concentration New Spells: Djikstra’s Algorithmic Fireball, Summon the Primordial Design Pattern, Shield from Buffer Overruns,...
I’ve been on a tidying binge this evening, and having found a bunch of CDs lying around in cracked cases behind the sofa, I’ve decided to rip them. So that my poor long-suffering NAS drive doesn’t have to think about two things at once, I’m listening to streaming music from...
We appear to have unintentionally produced the world’s rudest toddler. His favourite words at the moment seem to be: “a sí”, which he pronounces like “ass”, “cookie”, which he pronounces like “cock”, and “tete”, which alright is not exactly the dictionary word for “dummy”, but is almost certainly ruder in...
Mostly at Mark’s request, but possibly also of interest to others: A review of the HTC Magic. I’ve had mine for 6 days now. What’s in the Box? Pretty much the usual array - charger, USB cable, headset, and a 2GB MicroSD card. The latter comes with a few demo...
For the three of you who care, my Telegraph Fantasy Football team picker just got fiddled with. I had gotten quite annoyed with having to find a machine with a Python interpreter and un-proxied internet access, then downloading the script, every time I wanted to run the damn thing. So...