Today has involved physical introduction of remaining in-laws to actual parents. This was by way of a wandering cycle through town via the odd pub or two. Tomorrow is a fairly light day where I have to achieve a) a hair cut b) get some keys cut. The rest of the day can be put [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2010
Code Insomnia
It’s very rare programs are ever complete, let alone perfect. I pulled a fairly late session night to push a release out at work. Hopefully testing have a chance to raise any major clangers before I go on holiday for the next month. However the combination of late night coding plus fretting meant I didn’t [...]
Serious Business
While Fliss was away for the weekend on her extended crochet and knitting course I was handed a list of tasks to do in her absence. My Dad came around to help me* replace the light fittings and we then cycled into town for the most enjoyable task from the list. We will be having [...]
The wheels of Justice turn slowly indeed
I spent this morning at Cambridge Crown Court to see the sentencing of the guy that burgled us last month. This was a novelty for me as this is the first time I’ve been burgled and the perpetrator was caught. I did see him briefly when his name was called out by the defence counsel [...]
Edit with Emacs v1.8
After a relatively quiet period a number of patches have flowed my way so I thought it was worth pushing out a new version. Perhaps the most “important” feature is the edit box flashing and fading from yellow after being updated (like It’s All Text). It wasn’t that hard to do given jQuery and the [...]
Odyssey, in 60 seconds
We went to the new PD LRP fest game Odyssey this weekend. Although we didn’t stay for Saturday evening as we had wedding planning to do we did get a good feel for the game. Instead of Maelstrom’s Play-by-(e)mail game of Civ Odyssey is very much rooted in the events of the weekend. The generals [...]
Looping in LISP
Loops are a fairly important part of any programming language and fairly fundamental to a language that is purported to be all about manipulating lists. However it’s not something I use that often in my .emacs code so I thought it might be useful to discuss the various options with some examples. Problem: I run [...]
General Melchett was right
My first impressions of Oxford where that it’s even less car friendly than Cambridge. I was visiting for James’ stag and had elected to stay at the Oxford Social Club. Having booked it through a third party site I was under the impression there was parking. As it turned out the street parking was limited [...]
