I continue to gain confidence with (Emacs) Lisp. I used to have a hacked up (my-find) function that worked reasonably well but was a bit flaky and capable of missing stuff in other languages. It turns out it's faster to ask git a lot of these questions if your working …

It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture is still causing ructions in the news. Sadly it has lead to a great deal of hostile comment, most of which from people who have never read the text of lecture but see it as a chance to put the boot in …

It seems I'm not the only one unconvinced by Rhythmbox's shuffle mode. No sooner I mention it on the local IRC than one of my colleges points at some work he did over Christmas. While I've not got time to start running around patching my work box with a suitable …

The breaking news today is perhaps one of the greatest arguments against allowing a government to maintain ubiquitous cross-departmental database of it's citizens. The guilty party today was HM Revenue and Customs who store quite a lot about you. The politicians have been pretty vauge about exactly what fields have …

Yet another small nugget of code has gone into a public source tree. When I get a chance I'll have to fix up the one that didn't make it.