The Orwell Diaries have been running for a little over a year now. One thing I’ve learned is his slight obsession with the egg production of his chickens as well as a few notes about living in Spain. However the last few weeks has seen more earnest reporting of the political situation in the UK [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2009
Updates and clarifications
My previous post regarding the frustrations of a slow frame update when emacsclient was spawning frames wasn’t helped by a gotcha I’ve walked into a couple of times regarding the if function. In my haste to debug problems I’d added a message in some code: (if I-am-emacs-22+ + (message “loading color-theme at %s” (current-time-string)) (if [...]
Write to your MP time
I’ve not sent many letters to my current MP since I moved down south. So today I was moved to send the following: Dear James Paice, I’m writing to you today to let you know about my views on the Governments proposed Internet disconnection policy [1] on accusation of illegal file sharing. While I agree [...]
New Job, Old Job
I started my new job today. In many ways* it’s like my old job except with paid holidays and stuff. I’ll miss the 2 spare days a week I had to indulge other interests but projects but I suspect I’ll just have to do that at the weekends like everyone else. Half-Llama will still be [...]
The curious case of (make-frame) delays
I had a problem on my home machine with the way emacs created new X frames. New frames would appear but then pause for 4-8 seconds before I could type any text. My question to the mailing list was met with a comment to get a faster graphics card. This seemed a little silly so [...]
It’s just cricket
I’m never been a big fan of spectator sports. Generally the only things I watch with any sort of regularity is international Rugby Union and the occasional World Cup game. However there is something to be said for the institution of Cricket. It’s a lot easier to watch the figures slowly grow in the corner [...]
Lovely Evening
Thanks for all the good wishes for yesterday. Despite spending the day in work it was actually a fairly interesting one for that. I headed back in time to enjoy the evening chatting with Fliss while enjoying a BBQ steak with fresh home grown tomatoes, supermarket corn on the cob and a baked potato with [...]
Unlikey to be wiser
Well I’m now a year older* although not necessarily wiser for it. With Fliss back on her feet after enforced invalidity we spent the Saturday mooching about (Fliss preparing food, me doing washing up) before heading over N&MA’s house warming BBQ/party thing. They have recently taken on a fairly extensive renovation for their first house. [...]
Numbers to make your point
I assume most people are aware of the recent furore over Daniel Hannan’s appearance on Fox News where some fairly distorted views of the NHS where given. I’m not going to say the system is perfect but I certainly know which system I’d choose to be treated under. However I thought I’d confine my comments [...]
The Pirate Party
Well it seems the Pirate Party in now registered with the electoral commission in the UK which opens the way for their participation in elections. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Their front page policies are all good stuff, reform copyright and patent law, reduce surveillance and uphold free speech. I hope that [...]
