Miniblog articles for November 2004

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Tuesday 2nd, 08:59 »
Mirrormask looks interesting. Apparently Neil Gaiman is involved, and so is the Jim Henson company, so it will probably have good puppets in.
Tuesday 2nd, 23:42 »
I've just taken the blogger code survey. I think the results mean basically ‘not one of the cool kids’. Here's my blogger code: B7 d+ t++ k- s- u-- f- i-- o++ x e l- c
Wednesday 3rd, 18:20 »
Woo, pretty 3D graphs of CVS repository data and the like.
Thursday 4th, 14:49 »
Perl syntax is beautiful, don't you think? I just found myself writing this expression:
[[$l1->[0], $l2->[0]], @{zip([@$l1[1..$#$l1]], [@$l2[1..$#$l2]])}]
Tuesday 9th, 11:50 »
Firefox 1.0 is out, and it finally has a feature (hidden by default) that prevents websites opening links in new windows. I've been waiting for that one for a long time. I need no longer fear _blank.
Tuesday 9th, 19:05 »
What kind of time is this to have an alarm clock going off? And on, and off, and on… Bastard neighbours.
Thursday 11th, 12:10 »
Started using the fast new Dell server at work. 2.7GHz Xeon. Very fast. Firefox and OpenOffice just start up, straight away.
Thursday 11th, 17:17 »
“What the fucking shit? That bears repeating: What the fucking shit? No, seriously: What the fucking shit?” —Brian Nelson, on the debian-user list, describing the rather ‘special’ maildir format Gnus uses.
Thursday 18th, 22:47 »
What was that other one The Kinks did? Oh yeah, that one.
Sunday 21st, 15:12 »
“…modern data compression techniques would probably reduce Llull's output to a size much less than that of, say, Aristotle.” —Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Pre-Fascicle 4b (History of combinatorial generation)
Sunday 21st, 17:15 »
Just seen episode 16 of The Prisoner. It's the strangest one yet, and that's saying something. Only in the '60s could they make TV that baffling.
Monday 22nd, 13:42 »
The short-lived Babylon 5 spin-off series Crusade has now been released on DVD. I've pre-ordered mine. (Amazon page)
Sunday 28th, 20:13 »
“an embuggerance … is defined as an obstruction in the way of progress.” — Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett

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Tuesday Apr 24th 2007, 16:54 »
Just took the annual web design survey that AListApart do. I don't realy consider myself to be a web designer, but I have been doing a lot of HTML and CSS lately.
Monday Apr 23rd 2007, 18:23 »
Strange, there appears to be a bare-knuckle boxing match going on in the field outside my flat. Wish they wouldn't make so much noise about it.
Thursday Mar 1st 2007, 18:47 »
“In its written form, Hebrew has no vowels, making it the ideal language for texting.”
—Said in jest on some Radio 4 programme just now.

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