You’ll have to excuse the radio silence since my last post. The run-up to Christmas was a rush to ship the next version of the product to the testing team for next year. This wasn’t helped by a whole day being taken up with the company Chrimbo do for clay pigeon shooting and lunch in [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2009
Update on Emacs Chrome
In my spare time I’ve been mostly bashing away at trying to implement an edit server for the Emacs Chrome extension in Emacs Lisp. It’s taking longer than I hoped mainly as it’s the first time I’ve ever tried to use the Emacs Lisp Debugger and it’s fairly alien compared to the usual functional GDB’s [...]
End to End Connectivity
We had a slight degree of excitement this evening when we got home. All the power was out and the refrigerating appliances were slowing defrosting. Due to the randomness of the breakers tripping we thought it was the boiler. As it happened it was a earth-neutral leakage that was causing the craziness. Once that was [...]
Morning coffee for my workstation
My work machine has always been slow in the mornings. I may have moaned about this before but it’s mainly due to the rather excessive overnight processing it does (convert a 3.8G CVS repo into a 714M GIT repo). This tends to leave all the active applications somewhere in swap. With 3G of RAM in [...]
Chrome and Emacsclient
I had a number of things planned to do today, one of which was to go pick up some parcels that the local delivery service failed to do. However some workmen started digging up the road opposite my house. As the un-controlled single lane alternating between inbound and outbound traffic is right outside my drive [...]
Simon Singh
As the nights draw in again it’s time to hit the lecture circuit. Cambridge is pretty well served with public lectures as well as a number of other organisations that organises talks in return for a small donation on the day or subscription. Last night I went to the IET’s “Christmas” lecture by author, producer [...]
Post Travel Slump
I got back from my Hungarian adventures at a slightly more reasonable time than Wednesday mornings departure. Never the less I find travel still zaps the energy out of me. On Friday night I managed to eat dinner before crawling upstairs and passing out. Saturday has been ably documented elsewhere and basically involved a large [...]
Exploring Budapest
After finishing work around midday I took advantage of the rest of the day to go and do a little exploring around town. There is a handy tourist bus which does a 24 hour ticket and runs a continuous loop around the principle tourist points. Hopefully I’ll get a second stab at using my ticket [...]
That was quick
I’ve spent about 4 hours traveling today and about 3 hours in the clients offices. Everything went fairly smoothly and despite occasional language impeadence I’ve only gained an extra 3-4 feature requests, none of which should be too tricky to implement. I’ll probably pop into our local partners office tomorrow morning for a write-up before [...]
