I actually has an opportunity to play with the Special Ops mode of CoD4:MW2 last night with a friend. Despite a terribly laggy connection we had a blast working our way through the Alpha and early Bravo missions. I suspect the AC-130 mission was the most fun although the player on the ground is mostly [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2010
Finally public
After much faffing about with repeated sending of faxes to multiple numbers I finally proved I was human and accountable enough for “Edit with Emacs” to appear on the Chrome Extension Gallery. This almost immediately showed up some documentation and usage usability issues so I spent some of my spare time at the weekend creating [...]
The more noise they make, the more interesting they are.
We played host to Rich and Al this weekend as they visited local family. Although we did abandon them during the day on Saturday to attend the Winter Ale Festival while they attended more sober children’s parties. However around those two commitments we did get a chance to catch up and generally put the world [...]
Career Best Performance
We went for a meal and bowling before Fliss’ sister Steph sets of on her next adventure for a year in India. I haven’t been ten pin bowling for some time which explained by rather ropey start in the first game (scoring a total of 1 across the first two frames). However my second game [...]
Help! Most of our Universe is missing
We went to an interesting lecture last night at Churchill College. There is a problem with the universe. It doesn’t quite behave as we would expect it to given the amount of mass we can see in it. To account for the difference in the observed universe and the what the gravitational models predict in [...]
Today’s Ubuntu Emacs PPA tip
Like many Emacs users I use the excellent Ubuntu Elisp PPA to get a more recent Emacs than the main distro repos package. However I’d been puzzled as to why emacs-snapshot hadn’t been updated in ages. The was doubly confusing as the orebokech packages on which they are based and I use on my server [...]
Google’s change of heart
So Google are finally having second thoughts about their relationship with China. We may see then end of google.cn as a search engine that filters search results that might embarrass the authorities. Google got a lot of stick at the time when they first created their Chinese presence. In reality they were doing what every [...]
First elisp patch for emacs chrome
One of the nice things about putting your coding experiments up early and under a permissive license is people can submit patches. I’d been trying to get the native elisp edit server working but I’d fallen back to the working python script as I’ve been busy at work. However along comes Riccardo Murri who cleaned [...]
No Snow Yet
According to the new live weather map we live in the only part of the country that has dodged the snow bullet so far. That’s certainly the impression I get from seeing every ones various social media musings on the matter. No matter the platform we Brits seems to love talking about the weather. I’m [...]
