Miniblog articles for March 2004
Miniblog articles for April 2004 >
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Friday 12th, 01:14
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- This ‘miniblog’ thing is just an idea for writing little notes.
I'm writing them in a text file for now to see if they turn out to be
interesting.
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Friday 12th, 01:52
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- I have now eaten more than half a jar of Patak's Mixed Pickle today.
Nice, but nowhere near as good as their chilli pickle (with ginger in, mmmm).
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Friday 12th, 13:03
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- Found a reference to something called RDBA (Remote Database Access).
The name makes it sound like something I'd be interested in, but I can't
find anything about it other than the FOLDOC entry.
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Sunday 14th, 16:27
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- I needed an egg timer, and this worked quite well:
sleep 360 ; xmms 'Daft Punk - Aerodynamic.mp3'
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Sunday 14th, 17:06
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- “It's Spiderman, that man in red lycra.
He's my hero. He's going to save the day.”
—Spiderman, Joni Tuson
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Sunday 14th, 23:06
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- Recipe for dinner today: huge pile of pasta, 1 jar of Loyd Grossman's
Puttanesca sauce. Stir up together, sprinkle with cheddar. Serve with
cheap plonk.
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Monday 15th, 22:25
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- Someone's today registered a Debian ITP for the Perl ‘ooolib’ library
(apparently for making OpenOffice.org documents). It ends up with the
daft package name libooolib-perl.
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Tuesday 16th, 07:07
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- Reading Royal Assassin, 2nd volume of The Farseer Trilogy,
by Robin Hobb last night. I was surprised to look up and find it fully
daylight. Good book. Lucky I don't have work.
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Tuesday 16th, 13:52
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- Damn, bluebeard still won't respond after a reboot. It's infuriating
having a machine broken but not being able to look at it. I should have
kept it in Leeds.
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Tuesday 16th, 21:51
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- Still no luck from bluebeard, after a reboot. I might have to go to
London tomorrow to see to it. For now though, I'm going to watch
Logan's Run and try to forget about it.
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Wednesday 17th, 09:13
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- Note to self: no more coffee or pickles before bed. Chilli pickle does
not encourage restful sleep and peaceful dreams.
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Friday 19th, 01:45
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- Wow, I've had my first comment spam. It's on
my crappy guest book. It's been live
for 3¾ years, and some spammer has finally found it.
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Friday 19th, 01:49
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- Tonight I finally got my Font::FreeType module to put several glyphs together.
I've written the simplest typesetting engine I could, and it seems to work.
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Saturday 20th, 14:16
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- The ‘Fab Café’ in Leeds has a signed photo of Paul Darrow in
his Avon outfit on the wall, complete with laser gun. They've got loads of
other sci-fi naffness too, in a glass cabinet.
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Saturday 20th, 16:08
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- Fun Japanese word of the day:
品品,
shinajina, meaning “various articles”.
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Saturday 20th, 21:28
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- Found an interesting website about
the Japanese tea ceremony.
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Sunday 21st, 19:39
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- Smoked too much on Friday, and so didn't want a cigarette yesterday. I still
haven't had one, so maybe I'm giving up again. Third time lucky?
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Sunday 21st, 19:41
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- Watched the new Starsky and Hutch film. Doesn't take itself seriously,
but good fun, and some great hair-dos.
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Monday 22nd, 18:46
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- Just bought The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. It's going to
take me a while to work out just how to use it. I noticed that Jeffrey Friedl,
Mr Regular Expressions himself, is credited for programming work on it.
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Tuesday 23rd, 23:48
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- Four days without smokes. Twitch, twitch…
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Thursday 25th, 18:17
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- Hah, apparently Benton County, Oregon, has put a
morotorium on
all marriages until someone decides whether gay couples are allowed to marry.
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Friday 26th, 04:29
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- “If you lie down immedeately after eating, you will become a cow.”
—Superstition in Japan
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Saturday 27th, 13:02
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- Pineapple juice smells like old socks.
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Saturday 27th, 22:06
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- “The sources are distributed under the GPL Licence, so only non-profit
organizations can use it.” No, not quite right.
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Saturday 27th, 23:01
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- Been reading Why's (Poignant) Guide
to Ruby. I'm not convinced that it's a great teaching method, but it's weird
and funny enough that I'm reading it even though I don't care about Ruby.
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Saturday 27th, 23:29
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- Cute squirrel pictures.
The one at the bottom is brilliant.
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Saturday 27th, 23:46
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- “I have been spurned. Again. Twice hath the iron clad hammer of Google's
whimsy been brought crashing upon my dreams.” —Overcaffeinated,
denied Google Adsense membership for a blog they consider too personal.
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Monday 29th, 13:39
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- Yuck:
(nohup bash -c 'time my-program' &) — that is, tell
bash to start a subshell, run nohup in it in the background, have nohup run
another bash, which should use the time builtin to run the program.
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Wednesday 31st, 01:46
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- Just got home from work not 10 minutes ago. Bloody HTML Tidy and very crufty
Perl for 16 hours or so. Marvelous.
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Wednesday 31st, 08:53
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- Damn, all my socks have disappeared again. Mustn't wear the xmas musical
ones to the office again. It's quite embarressing when they go off, and
not at all seasonal.
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Wednesday 31st, 22:14
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- Just had an idea: it would be useful to have a little tool to take an
alpha-blended PNG and a background color and produce an opaque image. Handy
for producing themes for a website, when an advertiser wants a blue background.
Miniblog articles for April 2004 >
