Miniblog articles for June 2004
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Wednesday 2nd, 21:34
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- Just saw Harry Potter 3. Pretty good, all in all, although they had to
miss lots of stuff out. And there was only a glimpse of the white stag. At
least it didn't have 20 minutes of cheese at the end, like the last one.
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Wednesday 2nd, 23:33
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- A pint of Old Peculier
and half a bottle of wine: suddenly it's lots of fun to try singing
Carmina Burana to myself. In Taberna Quando Sumus is a bit too complicated though, when you're pissed.
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Saturday 5th, 23:19
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- Just watched Gothika.
I'm not really into horror, but it's pretty good. Proper spooky.
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Sunday 6th, 22:49
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- My Font::FreeType Perl module is almost ready, after a hard weekend's work.
It's just gone over 2000 lines all in. I was hoping to release it
tonight, but I just can't face documenting that last class right now.
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Tuesday 8th, 20:44
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- Fun Japanese word of the day:
下馬,
geba, dismounting. Literally ‘lower horse’.
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Wednesday 9th, 13:12
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- Wow, version 1.4.1 of GNU m4
has just been released, almost 10 years after version 1.4.
Includes a security fix.
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Thursday 10th, 19:27
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- Me and Dave are talking to the people who run
the Grove Folk Club about
running their website. Fortunately the negotiations involve plenty of beer.
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Saturday 12th, 15:09
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- Tried to use GD to do a simple bit of drawing, but I'm giving up. The
antialiasing has a weird API and doesn't work, and even a simple 3-pixel wide
line without antialiasing comes out pants, with the ends sliced off vertically.
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Sunday 13th, 00:54
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- “Similarly, the car of the car of a cons whose car is a cons can be assigned
with setf of caar, but neither nil nor a cons whose car is nil can be assigned
with setf of caar.” —Common Lisp HyperSpec
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Monday 14th, 18:21
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- I was right: if you want to center text properly you need to take the left
and right side bearing of the first and last glyphs into account. Hah!
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Wednesday 16th, 17:14
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- Dropped my phone (landline) and it seems to have crashed. Weird rattling
noises and screwed up LCD. Even cold booting it seems not to help.
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Wednesday 16th, 20:10
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- I've been watching Andromeda, and it's
good stuff. Basically Star Trek, but with the trusty captain taken away from
his cosy Federation. And a very cute computer :-)
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Wednesday 16th, 23:22
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- David Wheeler, Mr. Bricolage, has got
himself a blog.
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Saturday 19th, 20:41
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- I bought a Remington Precision Ceramic Hair Cutting Thing today, and it's quite
efficient. I may have gone a little overboard with it. Let's just say I feel
the strange urge to wax my head.
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Sunday 20th, 00:40
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- Watched Shogun Assassin.
Good sword fights, buckets of fake blood, and three ninja with really big hats.
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Monday 21st, 08:51
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- Hmm, it seems I can eyeball a large diff faster than this bloody X terminal
can scroll it past. Look, my mate's Atari STE had accelerated blitter, so
why can't this modern kit do it? It's bloody X's fault of course.
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Monday 21st, 21:57
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- “Increased job satisfaction and family togetherness are poison for a
purveyor of mind numbing intoxicants like myself.”
—Moe, Simpsons series 3, episode 10, Flaming Moe's.
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Wednesday 23rd, 13:59
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- Now I've had cold callers trying to sell me Cisco kit, and trying to buy our
‘redundant’ Cisco kit. I've never even laid hands on a Cisco switch.
Leave me alone with my crappy little network.
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Friday 25th, 23:31
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- “Joe le taxi
Et le cha-cha-chi”
—Vanessa Paradis, Joe Le Taxi.
Now that takes me back.
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Saturday 26th, 13:03
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- I wondered why Apache kept adding a
/ to the end of my URLs. It was
only after failing to find an answer in the Apache source that I realised it
was Firefox caching a redirect for me. How thoughtful of it.
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Saturday 26th, 16:39
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- “(For ladies) If the size of nigiri is too big to one bite and does not fit to
your mouth, you can ask the sushi-chef to cut it into two pieces when it is
served, or ask to make it smaller from the next.” —Sushi Etiquette
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Sunday 27th, 14:51
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- “There are two options for getting out of this conundrum. One is to study a
branch of linguistics called discourse analysis. The other is to get
married.” —Invitations, Japanese-style
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