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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.
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...
Okay, how hard can it be to get a doctor’s appointment? I called last Friday - admittedly quite late in the day - and was told “Sorry, you can’t book an appointment now. Call back on Monday if you still have the same symptoms.” Fair enough, I thought. Maybe the...
After a spree of lunchtime coding today, my Telegraph Fantasy Football Team Picker has finally hit v1.0. It’s a utility for football noobs (like me) who play the Telegraph fantasy football game. It scrapes players’ past performance and injury lists from the web, and suggests the mathematically optimum team. It’s...
The commonly accepted wisdom is that babies and toddlers need a set routine in order to thrive. As someone who quite passionately hated routine and stasis for most of his pre-fatherhood adult life, I wondered how I’d cope with doing the same thing, day in, day out. As it turns...
So, today the defendants in the Pirate Bay trial were found guilty, sentenced to a year each in prison and fined $3.6M. AND NOTHING WILL CHANGE. Whether they appeal successfully or not, nothing changes. Whether the Pirate Bay goes down or not, nothing changes. If ISPs across the globe block...