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Programming, gadgets and life as a lecturer in a UK university.
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March 2005 - Posts
Broadcast Media
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:02 PM
Had another weak moment on Saturday and bought a media streamer thingy. It listens to my wireless network and receives streamed audio files from my server PC. It is the Netgear MP101. I got it cheap, with some nice speakers thrown in. I've upgraded my
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Carlton Game Fair
Monday, March 28, 2005 7:44 PM
In a truly british manner we spent our easter day going out and having fun. Whatever the weather. We went to the Game Fair at Carlton Towers, a little country house near where dad lives. I'd never been to a game fair before, I was expecting anything,
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Mud Plugging
Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:15 PM
Went out for the day today to a Game Fair at Carlton Towers. Lots and lots and lots of mud. With mud on. I'll post some pictures tomorrow when I've got them out of the camera.We had a nice Easter Sunday. Hope you had too. But pehaps with less mud.
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Plasma Plugging
Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:46 PM
Whizzed over to dad's today and plugged a few things into his big plasma telly. Tried Gran Turismo 4 with a force feedback steering wheel and it is great fun. Even though I lost every race. Then number one son plugged in the XBOX and fired up Steel Batallion,
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Media Conversion Magic
Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:52 PM
You've got number one son to thank for this one. I've been trying to convert some media files to play on my Portable Media Centre. Whilst I can play them on the PC; when I try to transfer the using Media Centre it seems to reject the files and just transfers
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UK Student Zine
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:06 AM
If you are interested in what is going on in this business you should take a look at a new student Zine (I think this is a trendy name for a magazine) which is being launched by Microsft UK for young developers. I've signed up (possibly to try and make
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Sons, Cars and Puddles
Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:12 PM
Oops. Missed a day. That is going to bother me (although I've no idea why it should really). Picked up number one son today from uni. He is home for a five weeks. So there goes all the bandwidth. As I write this the hub lights are flickering merrily and
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Back To School
Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:53 PM
Went back to school for a day. I did a presentation at Baysgarth school, just over the river. The audience was polite and attentive, and I think they enjoyed the talk. Of course I took the dog, and of course he stole the show. This time, for some reason,
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Irons in the Fire
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:52 PM
I've applied for something today which probably won't come off. I've now got a new policy on this kind of thing. From now on I'm trying to make sure that at any one time I have at least three things "out there" which would be really
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Leaves
Monday, March 14, 2005 9:54 AM
Whilst I was pulling Red Nose Day pictures off my phone I found this one I took in autumn last year. I've tinkered with the colours ever so slightly, but I think it is still a good testament to how good phone cameras are these days.
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Comic Relief Relief
Monday, March 14, 2005 9:51 AM
Well, the lecture has been and gone. At the end of the day we raised over 500 quid. The only problem was that fifty of that was payment to paint my hair red. Again. Many thanks to Paul Chapman for setting that up, which meant that I had to spend the whole
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Red Nose Day On Friday
Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:15 PM
In the UK we have a charity thing called Red Nose Day. I've been involved since forever. Each time it comes around I dust off my dictionary and put together a lecture in rhyme. I'll be doing another one (based a bit on the one I did last time about .NET).
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You must read this
Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:47 PM
This is something else that Don Box's blog put me on to. It is a web based version of a history of the Macintosh. Linked together as a series of posts from the folks who actually built the beast. It is a very interesting description of how a small
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