Tetris

Posted on Fri 11 September 2009 in general • Tagged with house

Yesterday's packing went smoothly enough that by the end of the day our life was contained in a series of tessellating boxes. Theses boxes are currently being carried out by a series of big strong men and loaded into the two vans. At the rate they are going we should …


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Statements of the bleeding obvious

Posted on Wed 09 September 2009 in general • Tagged with environment, green, numbers

This little gem turned up in the news today. The suggestion that the rest of industry should cut greenhouse emissions even more to accommodate the growth in aviation is frankly silly. Aviation has to do it's part and certainly in the short-term this means less flying. In this context it's …


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More iPlayer updates for the PS3

Posted on Mon 07 September 2009 in geek • Tagged with iplayer, ps3

There is more information about the new iPlayer support for the PS3 on the BBC Internet Blog. While I don't get a shiny iPlayer logo on my XMB (due to owning the Japanese version) I don't really miss much as it was just a link to the iPlayer web-page. However …


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A few inches more

Posted on Mon 07 September 2009 in general • Tagged with bike, cycling

I adjusted the seat on my bike by a couple of inches over the weekend. I now have to come off my seat when I stop (or lean fetchingly against a support) but it certainly makes delivering power to the peddles easier. This as it turns out was useful for …


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Scripts from Scratch

Posted on Fri 04 September 2009 in geek • Tagged with development

I wrote my first from scratch python script* today. It's not the first time I've touched the language having submitted a number of patches to python based programs as well as spell fairly hefty tweaking existing code. But this was one of those tasks I would have usually picked up …


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