Miniblog articles for April 2004
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Thursday 1st, 10:48
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- I'm not sure pair programming is really me. After 1.25 hours caught
between some horrible code and a coworker with a somewhat different approach
to hacking I'm more knackered than after the 16 hour day I did on Tuesday.
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Thursday 1st, 14:36
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- Hmm, it turns out that using Outlook Express (with the ridiculous version
number 6.00.2600.0000) to look at a GPG-signed message sent from Mutt
the content is completely invisible!
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Thursday 1st, 16:39
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- “That's not a bug, it's a feature, but we fixed it anyway.”
—me
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Friday 2nd, 00:48
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- Cat in the garden. Nothing but territory on your mind, and the hunt.
No use for stress in your work, no doubt about what should be done.
You never have trouble finding clean socks, or remembering to pay the gas bill.
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Friday 2nd, 17:12
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- I could have been in the pub almost an hour ago, but I'm stuck waiting
for Aaron's rsync script to finish. Bah.
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Friday 2nd, 23:20
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- Ended up having a fag tonight. It's been two weeks since I last had any
nicotine, and this was only a very thin one, so I'm not doing too badly.
I'm still smoking the herbal nicotine-free stuff.
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Friday 2nd, 23:56
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- Had some Seekh kebabs from Milano's. Quite tasty, and they gave me lots of
them. I mentioned that I was partial to pickled chillis, and the guy gave me
about five of those. Good value.
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Saturday 3rd, 00:02
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- Really, providing a file for download which has a space as the first character
of its filename is not very helpful.
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Saturday 3rd, 11:22
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- RuS is stuck in Leeds for a few hours. Wicked. I'm off to Whitelocks.
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Saturday 3rd, 15:55
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- Meeting an old friend.
Sakura on the pavement.
The years turn too fast.
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Saturday 3rd, 18:08
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- “I consume the life essence itself… preferably medium rare.”
—Muldis, in Farscape series 1 episode 8,
That Old Black Magic
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Monday 5th, 20:38
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- We've just gone live with the new version of
The Register. Thank Goddess it's done.
I'm amazed that the new publishing system turned out to work this well.
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Wednesday 7th, 14:03
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- Why is my Firefox process taking 15% of the CPU time when I haven't even looked
at it for an hour? I can only think that one of the tabs is running some Flash
or something, but why bother when I'm not looking at it?
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Wednesday 7th, 14:10
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- I've just cleared 1067 messages out of my inbox, all from debian-devel.
Maybe I should unsubscribe. I don't particularly need to know about all
the rants and bitching anyway.
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Wednesday 7th, 14:44
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- Wow, Mark Pilgrim noticed The Reg's new
standards compliance. He links (in his equivalent of this miniblog) to the
page which mentions my part in all this.
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Wednesday 7th, 16:29
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- “DO NOT argue with Lisp programmers, believers in the Semantic Web, or
furries. :)”
— Charles' Rules of Argument, very sensible.
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Thursday 8th, 23:11
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- Tried looking at Microsoft's C# Language Specification. I don't have
Word, so when I double-clicked on it on my laptop I got it loaded into WordPad,
where almost the entire document is formatted with strike-through. Spiffy.
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Friday 9th, 12:11
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- Ye gods, Microsoft's
nmake doesn't support the $< or
$^ special things. I thought they were an ancient standard part of
make. Ah, you can use %s to mean $<. Yuck.
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Friday 9th, 12:23
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- I've posted my first software hate message.
Given the way software tends to treat me, it could be the first of many.
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Friday 9th, 12:54
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- To make
ls work more sanely on Cygwin, create a directory
/cygdrive. To make updatedb work, edit it to set
$SEARCHPATHS to list Unix dirs under / plus /cygdrive/c.
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Friday 9th, 13:46
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- I've switched my blog's front page to only show the summaries of articles
(now that I have them) rather than the whole thing. That should guard against
Google taking people to the less specific page.
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Friday 9th, 19:22
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- Just finished converting my standard configuration files (for Bash, Vim, etc.)
to Windows and Cygwin. Now if I ignore all the silly stuff it's just like
using Unix with a less customizable (and more frivolous) window manager.
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Monday 12th, 15:56
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- I've finally unsubscribed from debian-devel. It's just too much, and I'm
finding it harder to care as people bitch about what Taiwan should be called
in the installer that still isn't ready. No more duelling banjos!
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Monday 12th, 16:59
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- Now that my head's stopped hurting from last night: Sloe Gin is very tasty.
Completely unrelated to normal smell-makes-me-ill Gin. Only problem is that
it makes my tooth ache like hell.
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Monday 12th, 22:27
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- Just tested the new pub in Headingley, called Arcadia. It's the first
completely no-smoking pub in Leeds, and they have lots (eight tonight) of
cask ales.
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Tuesday 13th, 14:52
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- Tim Bray has given up
bothering with Orkut, and I think I have too. I haven't looked at the thing
for weeks. Can't think of any particular reason to.
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Wednesday 14th, 15:53
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- Firesocks has similar ‘prefix’ feature for bookmarks to Galeon, except
it only accepts one URL, for when an argument is provided. If there's no
argument you get a Bad Request, becuase
%s isn't valid URL encoding. Bastard.
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Friday 16th, 20:06
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- “Logic units concur that it happened. Investigation of this paradox is
continuing.” —Zen, in Blake's 7 series 1 episode 13,
Orac
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Saturday 17th, 13:45
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- The hardest thing about creating a BDF font is reading the bloody
specification. After fixing a GS problem I can now read the text, but I have
to open the diagrams separately because troff sucks goat.
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Sunday 18th, 17:12
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- Just used my Kanji dictionary to work out that Kasei
(火星) means ‘Mars’. The two kanji
mean literally “fire star”.
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Sunday 18th, 17:43
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- I've solved my problem reading the BDF spec's bad PostScript by converting
it to HTML: BDF:
Bitmap Distribution Format.
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Sunday 18th, 19:41
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- Finally finished writing summaries for all my old blog entries. I wasn't
going to bother, but now that they appear on the archive pages it makes sense
to have them. More metadata!
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Sunday 18th, 20:19
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- Sunday evening, and I'm off to the office to set up for this week's
training course. Now aren't I dedicated?
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Tuesday 20th, 11:35
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- Just found (via Bray) James Tauber's website
and blog. Some interesting things.
His sister Jenni has a poem about a cat, in Elvish.
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Tuesday 20th, 13:37
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- “I'm fairly sure UML is at least as good for you as studying Latin.”
—Robert L Read, How to be a Programmer
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Thursday 22nd, 15:43
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- Ye gods, I've just been counting the spams we've caught at work (mainly to
avoid nasty Exim configuration duties) and the number comes up as 329760
caught by SpamAssassin since June 12th last year. One spam every 1.4 minutes!
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Sunday 25th, 01:35
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- Reading about Japanese. I know desu is ‘to be’, that's one of the first
things in any Japanese tutorial. Except you use da in casual speech, which is
short for de aru. But if you're a girl you miss it out altogether…
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