Posts

  • 9th
    • Chris Buckley! → I am proud to announce a link to cjbuckley.net, the blog of ultralegend Chris Buckley! I was apprehensive at first about linking to such disreputable places, but the man drove up to my house in what I can only describe as a smoking hot silverine pimpmobile, with a crew of licensed heavies wielding polite smiles [...]
    • A regex for years → Because of this site’s technical history, and my commitment to unchanging URIs, the software which serves certain pages is governed, in part, by this regular expression: ^/(200[6-9]|20[1-9]\d|2[1-9]\d\d|[3-9]\d\d\d|\d{5,})/$ It’s supposed to match any year from 2006 onwards, but there must be a better way of doing it. According to the mod_rewrite documentation, there is a special extension to [...]
  • 11th
    • SDHC → Already being in possession of a nice camera, I haven’t been reading sites like dpreview.com for a while, so the introduction of the SDHC standard passed me by until now (I’m getting someone an Ixus 75 for their birthday! No, they don’t read this website (I’m not sure if anybody does)). How disappointing. 8GB SDHC cards are [...]
    • More on Wii Sports → I’ve had a couple of months experience with Wii Sports now! The attention to detail is continually impressive. When the tennis ball hits the metal post, it makes a metallic clunk, even though this only happens once in ten thousand shots. When the pins are struck by the bowling ball, they clatter around with beautiful physics, [...]
  • 13th
    • Pseudoscorpion in my bathroom → It was about 1mm long. The pincers looked scorpion-like so I searched for a list of bugs with “scorpion” in the name. It paid off! What’s That Bug? shows it clearly to be a pseudoscorpion. I’m quite pleased with the photo; there is depth of field even under 32mm of extension tubes. The floor is not [...]
  • 15th
    • Errorwiki → I wasn’t standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, nor was the porcelain wet, and neither did I slip, but the other day I had the idea of an Error Message Wiki. I think it would be fabulously useful. Error codes are often cryptic and overloaded, sometimes famous, and frequently bizarre (”000 Error: [...]
  • 18th
    • Today is a good day to buy → In case you haven’t noticed, pounds are currently worth a lot of dollars. That’s bad news for any Brits who sell their stuff to dollar-wielding folk, but for everyone else, it means American crap is cheaper. Furthermore, Verisign are raising their prices as fast as ICANN will let them, and inflation has hit 3.1% in [...]
  • 25th
    • Vote with your vote → It’s fashionable to say that abstention, or vote spoiling, sends a message to the politicians that you wish to vote None Of The Above, but all it really does is send a message that said politicians don’t need to care about what you think in order to get elected. It would be nice if they [...]

Oneliners

Reading twitter’s startup pages. What a delicious waste of time this looks. And I had the same idea about 3 years ago, dammit.

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