Posted on Wed 04 March 2009 in general
Packing almost complete. Fliss is despairing of my preparation being more focused around chargers and cables. I think she finds my need to be able to plug everything together a sign of technology dependence. It might be true but I like to believe tech make life easier. She did put …
Posted on Tue 03 March 2009 in general
The bags are slowly filling and I'm crossing the t's and dotting the i's for our trip to Oz. I have a slight trepidation about flying for 24 hours straight (modulo a half hour in Thailand) but hopefully I shall have enough to amuse me. It's all getting quite exciting …
Posted on Mon 02 March 2009 in geek • Tagged with development, xorg
You may recall the adventures of playing with the bleeding edge of Xorg. Well I've given up, I just don't have enough time for tinkering with my main machines display. I managed to get a locally built Xserver after a fashion but I keep hitting various brick walls. I've basically …
Posted on Thu 26 February 2009 in geek
LittleBigPlanet continues to be a source of wonderment for me. Today I did a search for "calculator" to find the apparently famous LittleBigCalculator only to find there were many implementations. The calculator is fairly simple in that it can only add and subtract numbers between 0 and 99 but it …
Posted on Thu 26 February 2009 in general
We joined my parents for a credit crunch influenced film and food last night. Apart from the normal Orange Wednesday film deal they are now also offering 2 for 1 on a starter and main at Pizza Express. I suspect we made up for it with the wine though.
We …