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Author Archives: Angus Hardie
Smoothies
New smoothie recipe that I tried: 2 bananas 250ml Orange juice. Put bananas in blender. Add orange juice to blender. Blend until smooth. Not exactly impressively innovative, but it tastes quite good.
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Amazon ads
I was just doing a quick search for Lemony Snicket books (of which there are apparently now 11) on Amazon.com Oddly enough when I did the search I got the following within the search results: It appears that they are … Continue reading
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How stuff gets popular
This article:The Long Tail in the October issue of wired is really interesting. It offers the idea that the sucess of the most popular media titles is actually less than the cumulative totals of the other titles. The article also … Continue reading
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The Twelve Days of Crunch Time
The Twelve Days of Crunch Time Weird! (from Slashdot)
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PalmOS future?
Weird things seem to be happening in the Palm OS sector. PalmSource recently bought China MobileSoft which is a Chinese linux smartphone developer. This comes after spending about $11 million to buy BeOS from be back in 2001. One obvious … Continue reading
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Ethical Hacking: A BCS Talk
This evening I went along to the Edinburgh BCS talk on Ethical Hacking. It was really eye-opening and made me suitably paranoid about my own security. Peter Wood of First Base Technologies gave a remarkably useful, informative and funny talk … Continue reading
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Rabbit in Sauce Sublime
“Rabbit in Sauce Sublime, a recipe that sounds right out of a Warner Brothers cartoon” There are several really odd websites with recipes from a time when taste was lacking and people cooked the oddest things. Gallery of Regretable Foods … Continue reading
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Added Staticize plugin
To fit in with my views on websites (only as dynamic as absolutely necessary), I have installed this plugin. Hopefully this will not cause too many problems.
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Ebay Suspension
Weird thing happened today. I was checking my email and I saw a message from ebay stating that my account had been suspended. I assumed it was fake and went to visit ebay itself. But it seems real. The whole … Continue reading
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SQLEditor
Oracle connectivity has been one of the main things I’ve been working on this week with SQLEditor. This involved installing Oracle on my iBook. Oracle 10g is a remarkably complicated bit of software. It arrives in a 500MB+ download which … Continue reading
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Pocket PC and Mac OS X
In a break from SQLEditor and other similar things I’ve been trying to connect my pocket pc to my macintosh. After some experimentation I have sucessfully installed synce using instructions . I have also got the pocket pc to connect … Continue reading
DocBook and Apple Help
One of the key tools I’ve been using recently is Docbook. Docbook is an xml-schema which can be used to write documentation for things. This can then be converted via the wonders of XSL, XML and XML-FO processors into PDF, … Continue reading
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SQLEditor released!
After a rather over-extended development cycle SQLEditor version 1.0 has now been released. Which is a great relief to me. I’ve been working on it for so long now that I can’t quite remember not working on it, which is … Continue reading
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Writing Documentation
I’m currently in the middle of writing user documentation of SQLEditor. I finally settled on docbook as the format of choice since it seems the most compatible with other things. I’m using this tutorial to build the stuff although saxon … Continue reading
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Mac OS X keyboard layouts
I was reading macsurfer today and I came across an interesting article by a Canadian called Joe Clark who wanted to remove the US flag from the input mode menu item. This got me thinking, could I write something that … Continue reading
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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