Monthly Archives: October 2004

Word press spam and comments pages

I’ve got tired of people spamming my web log. So I’ve changed the name of the comments posting page. I’m going to see if it makes a difference. If it does then the people spamming are automated, if it doesn’t … Continue reading

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Walled City of Kowloon

Leynos posted a really interesting story about the Walled City of Kowloon. It’s fascinating and I’ve been reading all the linked web pages …

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Integrate flyspray with CVSWeb

Currently I’m using flyspray for bug tracking. I use cvsweb to view the cvs tree online. One thing that I really wanted was to be able to click one bug numbers in the cvs log reports and see the bug … Continue reading

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Java FileWriter, XML and UTF-8

Oddly enough the java.io.FileWriter class doesn’t use UTF-8 by default. I’m not exactly sure what the default encoding is (possibly ISO-8859-1 or US-ASCII?) but it doesn’t seem to be UTF-8, which is odd given that java strings are supposed to … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Cocoa B11a

Unfortunately there was a crashing bug in SQLEditor beta 11 and I had to release b11a. It was one of these things were format strings caused the crash. I’d transposed two of the entries [NSString stringWithFormat:@” %@ %d”,aDecimal,aString] instead of … Continue reading

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HP unveils paper-thin flexible screen technology – ZDNet UK News

HP unveils paper-thin flexible screen technology – ZDNet UK News This is a really amazing development. There are some images too. The most impressive one is probably the first image which has been unplugged for two years! They also demonstrate … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Cocoa B11 Released

Released SQLEditor Cocoa B11 today. Lots of new features included in this release. I almost missed the release today actually because I found an unfortunate bug just before I was about to upload. It turned out that an object wasn’t … Continue reading

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UGC Cinema Pass & recent films

Well I finally signed up for this. After about 5 minutes and an amazingly scarey form, I’ve now got a commitment to pay £120 and a pass good for 30 days. The actual pass will be delivered by post later. … Continue reading

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Mental Control of Computers

Yahoo! News – Scientists gingerly tap into brain’s power This is a really great piece of news. If this technology can be extended then it will really improve the quality of people’s lives immensely. Plus they’re also promising non-invasive approaches … Continue reading

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Cocoa#

I’ve been playing around a bit recently with mono and cocoa#. There also seems to be an experimental build of Mono-develop. I begin to think that .net and mono are going to be excellent java competitors. I also think that … Continue reading

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UGC Cinema Pass?

I’ve been wondering yet again about the UGC Cinema pass. It’s a 12 month minimum subscription pass that gives apparently unlimited cinema screenings. Pay £10 a month and see every film if you so desire. I’ve been wondering about this … Continue reading

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Sorry about lack of postings

Not much happening here recently. I don’t think I’ve posted anything since September. This is mainly because I’ve been really busy with other stuff. SQLEditor has been making good progress and I’ve been working on some other projects too.

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