I’ve updated the picture on my homepage to make it a little more contemporary. Credit’s for the image go to Chris Flemming who took it during the recent weekend in Scotland. It turns out to be possible to get good pictures of me
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
Seen on the ‘net
I saw this on the news feeds today. It’s still too early to hope for a new stable release this year. Interestingly I did some hacking on vc-git.el on Friday in an attempt to improve the annotate support. vc-git.el is now living in the emacs distribution proper but unfortunately doesn’t work with older emacs, I [...]
Rugby
After sofa shopping we settled ourselves down for a nice afternoon of Rugby. We were joined by Mark, who had been abandoned by his wife for seats in the Stade de France, and Anne. The most impressive game was the Wales vs Italy one – there where tries a-plenty as the Welsh got stuck into [...]
The slow stiffling of the soul
The weekend has been full of many wondrous and varied things. However the main thing that stick in my mind have been sofa shopping, securing socrates, and the rugby. We went out to DFS on Saturday morning and sat in a series of sofas trying to decide if they where acceptable. We deflected the over [...]
Impossible!
So the government want to punish the ISP’s if they don’t do the impossible. The spokesman from ClaraNet on Today this morning (somewhere around here I think) was fairly direct in his rebuttal. It was apparently “impossible”, even if is wasn’t impossible technically it would be legally. Well technically it would be possible, you could [...]
Cute
There is something inherently heart warming about watching one of your favourite childhood movies being re-told by your favourite childhood toy.
Blu-Ray and CoD4
I see that Sony have “won” the battle for physical high definition media. Unfortunately since the last firmware update my Japanese PS3 has rather taken against playing Blu-ray discs. It does however play DivX files quite nicely (better than my ageing Cello DVD player). Given current trends I’m unlikely to be buying any Blu-Ray discs [...]
New Box
I have a new hosted Xen box in Germany now. I decided that it was worth the rather small hosting fee to have at least one box I could configure that was unlikely to have it’s incomming and outgoing ports filtered, limited or otherwise manipulated by consumer ISPs. I didn’t help my setup though modifying [...]
Old Legs
Fliss and I spent the weekend in Scotland, in Newton Stewart to be precise. The gathering was an annual event to celebrate the birthdays of two of Fliss’ friends from her days at Edinburgh. The 22 or so people had exclusively hired out the local youth hostel and provided a handy barrel of ale as [...]
More Lisp
I continue to gain confidence with (Emacs) Lisp. I used to have a hacked up (my-find) function that worked reasonably well but was a bit flaky and capable of missing stuff in other languages. It turns out it’s faster to ask git a lot of these questions if your working in a source controlled environment. [...]
