I always come back to the power of Unix tools, and the ideology of using many small tools in stages to achieve a goal rather than crafting a monolithic solution. Tonight was a great example how how a little automation can save a huge amount of time.
My dad has a massive stack of Excel [...]
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Jesus H. Christ Almighty, please please tell me I’m being an idiot and it’s not actually as fugly and difficult to use as 2 hours of experimentation makes me thing. Surely it is not possible.
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Rarely do I post youtube clips, because 90% of youtube is utter rubbihs, but this display of tracking fingertips using a wii-remote is just brilliant! Nods to cubicgarden for the post.
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I’ve been using and writing for trustedplaces.com for about a year now, and I love it. Its really cool to be able to post up your own stuff and have people feedback to you how they found it, and it can be dead handy for finding places to eat in cities you’re not well versed [...]
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I found this blog entry about milk labelling absolutly shocking. Monsanto manage to get through a court ruling meaning farmers are specifically barred from saying if their milk does/or does not, come from treated animals! Amazing, truely amazing. I’m half hoping a farmer starts selling milk which explains that it definatly does not contain fish, [...]
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