Miniblog articles for November 2004
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Tuesday 2nd, 08:59
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- Mirrormask looks interesting.
Apparently Neil Gaiman is involved, and so is the Jim Henson company, so it
will probably have good puppets in.
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Tuesday 2nd, 23:42
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- 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
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Wednesday 3rd, 18:20
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- Woo, pretty
3D graphs of CVS repository data and the like.
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Thursday 4th, 14:49
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- 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]])}]
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Tuesday 9th, 11:50
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- 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.
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Tuesday 9th, 19:05
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- What kind of time is this to have an alarm clock going off? And on, and off,
and on… Bastard neighbours.
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Thursday 11th, 12:10
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- Started using the fast new Dell server at work. 2.7GHz Xeon.
Very fast. Firefox and OpenOffice just start up, straight away.
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Thursday 11th, 17:17
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- “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.
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Thursday 18th, 22:47
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- What was that other one The Kinks did?
Oh yeah,
that one.
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Sunday 21st, 15:12
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- “…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)
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Sunday 21st, 17:15
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- 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.
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Monday 22nd, 13:42
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- The short-lived Babylon 5 spin-off series Crusade has now been
released on DVD. I've pre-ordered mine.
(Amazon page)
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Sunday 28th, 20:13
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- “an embuggerance … is defined as an obstruction in the way of
progress.” — Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett
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