Blog Archive — Page 42
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
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...
To follow up blog posts on gun control and police brutality, back to my normal standard of blogging: In The Night Garden. So, the Pontipines and the Wottingers. Stuck in their houses in the middle of nowhere, miles from any other member of their species. All they have to do...
My last blog post got me thinking about how much worse the whole protest could have been if anyone was in any way armed. So why (hello America) the right to bear arms? As far as I can tell, there’s two arguments: To protect my home Does having a weapon...