Minor Hiccups

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 …


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Preparation

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 …


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Giving up on Xorg

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 …


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Turing Complete

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 …


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Slumdog Hat Maker

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 …


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