Useful Tools

Posted on Wed 28 January 2009 in geek

The exceptionally useful traintimes.org.uk has a lovely mobile site with simple bookmarkable URLS, for example http://m.traintimes.org.uk/london/waterbeach. Very useful to keep links on your mobile browser :-)


A few days of purgatory

Posted on Thu 22 January 2009 in misc • Tagged with development

I spent most of yesterday (and will spend today) operating in the Windows world. Every time I do this it reminds me of how much I hate it. Having to use IE certainly reminds me that Firefox is a much much better browser. I also miss having a comfortable editor …


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Rockbox (But not really)

Posted on Mon 19 January 2009 in geek

I finally got my git-svn cleanup patch accepted into the code base. It's a trivial fix but makes my life easier. I also think my playlist tweak is finally clean enough to go in.

That's not the real reason for this post though. Frank (the LJ Bot) has just told …


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The Moon on a Stick Paradox

Posted on Mon 19 January 2009 in general • Tagged with jobs

I went and did my initial sign on for JSA last week. The process was mainly painless although a little delayed due to the office being quite busy. As far as I could tell the first floor was given over to new claims (and possibly follow-ups) as the normal sign …


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Call of Duty: World at War

Posted on Tue 13 January 2009 in geek

I am a bit of a FPS fan. Although I'm almost universally outclassed in online play by twitchy trigger fingered teenagers I do enjoy the solo story missions. As games have advanced over the years and become more cinematic I'm beginning to think the war film genre's days are numbered …


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