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The power of little tools

November 27th 2007

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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Microsoft Sharepoint

November 27th 2007

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. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your [...]

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Wii remote finger tip tracking

November 23rd 2007

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. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing [...]

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Trustedplaces.com rocks – officially

November 23rd 2007

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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Monsanto seem to think information is evil

November 21st 2007

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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Hong Kong – A summary

November 13th 2007

I hadn’t planned to blog whilst away for fear of loosing my passwords to some Chinese hacker, but to be honest, I can change them, so fuck it. My week in Hong Kong has been an experience, some good, some bad. The 4 hour train journey down to the flight was bad, as all cheap [...]

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I wish…

November 5th 2007

I was as funny as Andy Hamilton Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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