I finally figured out the correct magic to pass custom command line arguments to my emacs. This has allowed me to get the emacs-server running in a way more tuned to the way I work. A lot of emacs people only run one instance of emacs and therefor take the start-up hit and leave it …
Today I’m trying out the “recycled foam” method for generating the milky foamy head on my coffee. In theory by recycling the milk from the destination cup back into the system the milk gets more warmed through which should affect *something*. However I suspect the biggest change is due to the the discovery of a …
I’m not sure if this is related to athena25′s post or the fact we had dinner with Izzy and Andy. Yesterday we had a fully veggie evening meal. Fliss informed me it was my turn to come up with a suitably meat free meal for this evening. Despite being a fully paid up omnivore we …
I think I’m Apple’s side with the latest ASA ruling. The crux of the ASA’s argument is that Flash and Java are part of “internet”. It’s dangerous because it makes a precedent that supporting these proprietary applications* is the only way you can support the full fat internet. This is something free software will have …
The (extended) weekend has been mostly filled with family related stuff. Saturday started with a trip to the Newmarket Races to start the celebrations for Fliss’ Mum’s birthday. Predictably the first bet I placed on the first race came in at 15/2 netting be 20 something pounds. This of course was not replicated over the …
I hate selling houses. It really does bring out the most anal nit-picking aspects in people who I’m sure are really nice in person. My house is empty, I’m ready to complete and I keep getting the same question about a burglar alarm I haven’t used for over 2 years.
I’ve been getting a number of DVDs through my current rental deal that seem to skip and pause on my DVD player at the start. At first I thought it was scratches but it turns out there are more sinister reasons behind it. It’s basically the DVD equivalent to Copy Control for CDs which creates …
Travelling first class in Germany is pretty good. We had a compartment to ourselves with some rather comfortably seats, a table and power socket. This meant we could enjoy a few DVDs without having to resort to shared headphones. The waiter service was pretty cool too. The difference in price wasn’t too massive and for …
The travel down was interesting. The Eurostar is fast, after a quick security screening and quick exchange of seats we were on. It gets up to 186mph and it didn’t seem like long at all until we reached a mostly closed Brussels station. We had an hour to kill before the overnight sleeper which was …
It’s official, we are in fact on holiday. In fact I’ve been “on holiday” since Thursday evening when I got home from work. The first task of the weekend was hiring a transit* van and picking up table from Fliss’ Mum’s to replace the rather crappy white plastic one that currently fills our garden. We …