Migrated to Wordpress

Posted on Mon 02 November 2009 in general • Tagged with blog, emacs, meta, site, wordpress

I've finally gotten around to migrating the blog to Wordpress. While I'm still very happy with Personal Weblog it was getting a little long in the tooth and given Livejournal's ongoing problems with syndicated feeds I thought it would be easier to host everything (including comments) on my site. You …


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Albums

Posted on Tue 27 October 2009 in general • Tagged with music

One of the perils of having the entire smorgasbord of a music collection available on your computer (or music playing device) is the shuffle button. I almost unconsciously end up setting the player on random and just hitting skip when a track that doesn't quite fit my mood comes on …


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LUG Radio Live and OggCamp

Posted on Mon 26 October 2009 in geek • Tagged with barcamp

I spent the weekend in the company of fellow geeks in Wolverhampton at LugRadio Live and OggCamp. As can be expected the ratio of connected devices to attendees was over 1 and we successfully saturated several WiFi routers to death.

While LugRadio was a more typical conference type event with …


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Question Time

Posted on Fri 23 October 2009 in general • Tagged with bbc, bnp, politics

Well the reaction quotes are in from last nights Question Time, as are the viewing figures (7.9m, easily beating the previous 3.8m water mark at the height of the MPs expenses scandal). I'm not sure I'm cynical enough to accuse the BBC of engineering the media storm on …


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Finding Open Source Android applications

Posted on Wed 21 October 2009 in geek • Tagged with android, development, htc hero

I love my HTC Hero and growing number of applications that are available for it. However the marketplace really doesn't make clear the difference between free (as in beer) and free (as in freedom). For all sorts of reasons I'd like to be sure the code running on my new …


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