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the sopranos continues to educate…

March 27th 2008

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true” : Nathaniel Hawthorne Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two [...]

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Best quote of the week

March 27th 2008

Next heated meeting I have I’m rolling out… “Take it easy. We’re not making a Western here” Thank you The Sopranos. A few more I might just throw out there Tony: Think Christopher, think! The big f**king picture, huh… “I don’t understand” “Thats because I wasn’t fucking talking to you” “She’s so fat, her blood [...]

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Brain dump/link trap version 0.1

March 26th 2008

My brain (and my rss feeds ) has been going into overdrive today. Managing your time thought your calendar, diffiuclt to switch over to one imagines.  Only works if people don’t expect instant responces to emails. An interesting paradigm shift, not having a bad table, rather than having people thing ill of you (and websites [...]

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How to think

March 21st 2008

I spent a lot of time (at the moment) thinking about how I think, and how I work, and how I can lear to think and work more efficiently.  I really liked the advice on this list, called appropriately, how to think. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes [...]

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wiiPong (or, how to make a crappy games from exciting technology)

March 21st 2008

I bought a wiiMote a little while ago because, well, they looked fun.  No other real reason.  Here’s how I got it up and running with my favorite programming environment, processing.org Firstly, you need to make your laptop have “blue teeth” luckily my iBook came with these coloured nashers, which I’ve not really used and [...]

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Document reuse

March 21st 2008

I think everybody agrees that reuse is a good idea generally.  Reusing glass jam jars is vastly more efficient that recycling them into new jars.  Reusable templates are much more efficient that drawing the damned thing ever time.  Reusing code libraries is the only way the majority of programs could ever be created.  There are [...]

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RIP Arthur C Clarke

March 19th 2008

The king is dead. Long live the King! 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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Dear America, learn to cook

March 18th 2008

I am not Irish.  Really.  Not even slightly.  And this is why I’m not out drinking myself to destruction tonight, on some vague claim to be decended from the people over the water.  This however is a subject for another day, probably tomorrow, in all honesty. No, tonights diatribe is reserved for American cooks mutilation [...]

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National ID cards

March 12th 2008

Now I’ve got myself into a huff about nation id cards before now, but it would appear that the government is steaming ahead, regardless as to whether people want them, re interested in them, or would pay for them.  I listened to a discussion on Radio4 as I drove into work this morning with an [...]

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The worst way to start a day…

March 6th 2008

Phoning somebody who’s left your office, about a minor point in a document they wrote which needs clarification, and finding out that they quit the whole company and really aren’t interested in talking to you.  And it’s before 9:30am.  And you’ve not had a coffee. Possibly Related Posts: Haunted by the ghosts of bosses past [...]

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A Tescos Poem

March 3rd 2008

I only popped in, for five spice, and cabbage, and maybe a beer, but you made me so angry, wish your pushing and your grabbing and your lofty accents, I will return, with a stick.  Fear me. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and [...]

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Why do I love trustedplaces.com?

March 3rd 2008

I love trustedplaces.com, and because I love it, its the only site I spend time being active in really.  I’m a passive user of hundreds of sites and numerous emialing lists, but there are a couple of sites I actually contribute content to, and trustedplaces.com is one of them.  The big question is why. Well, [...]

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