..have left my a little weary this morning. I spent this weekend at my first full length Odyssey event which gave me a fuller impression of the world than last years quick visit. The arena is still my favourite part of the experience. Certainly as I don’t get much LARP combat these days it’s nice [...]
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Fliss’ 32 Inch TV
The weekend was both incredibly efficient and lazy in equal measures. We headed into town bright and early at 9:00 in a bid to miss the rather nasty traffic Cambridge inflicts on it’s driving population. I would have cycled were it not I was picking up our new Smart TV for the library. It’s an [...]
Perils of bleeding edge
I’ve taken to running the latest emacs from a source tree install. It works well enough and additional modes I use have been liberally ${VC} fetched into my .emacs.d. However there are still a number of packages I’d like to use from Debian’s emacs version agnostic site-lisp directories. I came up with this: ;; Add [...]
It’s all about the package
Apologies in advance for this tech heavy post. I was moved to write it as some friends are doing a crash course in learning Linux. Consider this remote teaching for those that are interested. Back in the early history of computing software was often built in-situ. Generally programs were distributed as source code and compiled [...]
Uncaged Monkeys
I find it heartening that a thing like Uncaged Monkeys exists. While I doubt science based entertainment will ever reach the stadium busting state that stand-up comedy did a few years ago I hope the trend continues. The format worked well and was a lively cross between lecture and stand-up routine. Most of the comedy [...]
No news is some news
There is currently a lot of consternation around Twitter users attempting to circumnavigate the latest batch of so called super-injunctions. The approach being taken by twitter users seems to involve throwing up a number of informed guesses as to the subjects of these injunctions and seeing what gets taken down. An interesting side-effect of the [...]
Playing Blu-Ray under Linux
One of the many deficiencies of Digital Restrictions Management is the fact it makes doing legal authorised things hard for paying customers. For example my brother still can’t play Blu-Ray disks on his laptop despite it having the requisite a) drive, b) power and c) display resolution. Because the OS on his machine (Vista?) can’t [...]
completion-ignored-extensions
I’ve been using the rather spiffy Lusty Explorer for some time for my buffer and file finding. However it (I thought) had a rather annoying bug where I could never tab directly into some of the repositories I was hacking on. Eventually I figured out that the problem was down to the way I name [...]
