Posted on Fri 31 October 2008 in general
I'm feeling more than a little guilty having used the car 3 days so far this week. While the cold snap is upon us it's very easy to come up with reasons why I should be using the car (visiting folks, picking up Fliss from station etc). Must try better …
Posted on Thu 30 October 2008 in misc • Tagged with development
if (sscanf(dirname, "%8x", &scanf_id)==1)
{
// We can extract the ID right now
su = alloc_vsSu((uint32_t) strtoul(dirname, NULL, 16));
g_assert(su->config->id.idAsUint32==scanf_id);
}
else if (g_strcmp0("default", dirname)==0)
{
// The …Posted on Wed 29 October 2008 in geek
While browsing some new BBC mash-ups I noticed a reference to a new data source. Freebase is still in alpha but it aims to be a flexibly addressable database of facts (rather than articles containing facts like Wikipedia). This has all sorts of intriguing possibilities.
In other news, Obama is …
Posted on Mon 27 October 2008 in general
We spent this weekend entertaining as Phil and Karl visited from the wild climes of the North. The weekend was mostly catered by Fliss who cooked a wonderful Roast Duck (with Port and Marmalade sauce) on Friday and a lovely Katsori Dom (sp?) on Saturday. I was mostly relegated to …
Posted on Thu 23 October 2008 in geek
My venerable Ogg capable media player died* a few days ago. I'm now in the market for a new media player as it helps the time battling the on-coming headwind pass by as I cycle in and out of work. Although I mostly listen to pod-casts it would be nice …