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Programming, gadgets and life as a lecturer in a UK university.
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November 2005 - Posts
Which Craft
Saturday, November 26, 2005 5:19 PM
I've been a member of the Consumers Association for a while. It sounds posh, but basically what it means is that they send you Which magazine every month. It is a consumer review magazine which covers everything from fast food to widescreen TVs. Today's
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Beating Rob's Code
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:47 PM
We had some serious fun today. Andy and the MSP posse at Hull organised a programming event around a gaming framework that lets you pit game algorithms against each other. Thanks to a cunningly set up web server we could write our gaming routines in VS
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Nasty
Monday, November 21, 2005 8:38 PM
I spent a big chunk of yesterday helping a friend whose computer has suddenly stopped dialing up to the internet. Instead of the connection, she now gets the number unobtainable tone. Turns out she has had a lucky escape. Her machine had fallen victim
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Policy of Fun!
Friday, November 18, 2005 11:37 PM
Had a really nice moment today. I was at a meeting of one of the university IT management committees, where we are trying to set policy for future computer developments on campus. The plan included (apparently inspired by me) provision for fun! We now
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Hide Your Errors
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:41 AM
I'm becoming quite a fan of the Squarespace service (www.squarespace.com). They provide some rather nice, low cost, web hosting.
I've put a site up there and it is proving very easy to manage and fun to configure. Yesterday I had a problem though, in
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Mint Sourcery
Monday, November 14, 2005 8:53 PM
I've been playing with Mint Source. This is a sheepish kind of RSS aggregator thingy which you can get the source of and fiddle with. It is also a cute addition to your desktop and you can even get him out of his box and play with him. He arrives
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Union Pictures
Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:34 PM
On the way back to the car tonight (since the clocks went back on Sunday I now get to drive home in the dark) I passed the University Union looking quite cool.
And no, I didn't throw the camera in the air to take this (but thinking back it might have
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Getting a Roasting
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:23 PM
I was a bit worried last week when I gave a tutorial to the Second Year Software Design course. The students seemed a bit quiet and I was concerned that the material wasn't making sense. Todayin a lecture we went through the results from a multiple
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