May 2009
13 posts
1 tag
Vim
(because everyone has got to have their own Vim post)
I’m pretty much settled on using Vim as my editor of choice after giving up BBEdit (many moons ago) and trying to find a good free alternative. I went through everything (Smultron, oh, no, actually that’s it) before making a concerted effort to learn Vim. I guess at the time I must have been spending a lot of time in the terminal...
1 tag
WatchSorry I’m Late. A stop motion animation. Pure class.
- Seen on Google Reader “Cool” via recommendations.
1 tag
Awkward Family Photos →
I particularly liked the Winnie the Pooh one.
2 tags
Shoes
Three years ago I used Ruby to write my first program with a GUI, using the almost-built-in Tk toolkit. It wasn’t very exciting*, but it impressed me as I had a working bit of software on my screen that I’d created and yet I didn’t really know anything about programming. I still profess I still don’t really know how to program, sure I can hack about a bit, but when it gets...
1 tag
http://flic.kr/p/6oAMHg →
Flickr Short URLs have been around for a little while, but I still don’t think they’ve been officially announced. At least I’ve not notice a post on the main flickr blog, or the flickr code blog.
I first saw them on Twitter as a flickr staff member had used one. I googled and found this blog entry on flickr short urls.
So this is just to spread the word. At the moment you have...
1 tag
WolframAlpha →
It’s not like it isn’t already linked all over the place, but it is still worth a mention. Some of the things I’ve tried so far:
Solving the quadratic equation
Why stop there?
Great wall of china divided by earth’s circumference
Calories in a peanut
Determinent of a matrix
Matrix dot products
Some results are confusing:
Derivative of y=x^2 why doesn’t...
1 tag
“…So I buy old pairs of spectacles from junk shops and when I meet a dog in...”
– Alex Brytcha (illustrator of The Oxford Reading Tree series, aka: The Magic Key)
[Finally! Solved! This has been bugging me for years ever since I first started spotting these spectacles in my kids’ reading books. And now I know.]
1 tag
2 tags
Almost Valid
I’ve tweaked the (x)HTML and CSS so it gets as near to validating as it ever will. Tumblr use an iframe to insert the and , etc into the top right hand corner of the page. This throws a validation error. There’s nothing I can do about that. And it’s of no big concern.
The CSS is valid apart from the use of border-radius. Which is more an issue with the Jigsaw validation engine...
1 tag
1 tag
What to write here
Interesting personal blogs are written about things the writer is passionate, knowledgeable and opinionated about.
However, sometimes the things you are emotive about aren’t best served by blogging for every man and his dog to see. In the space of a few years things have changed a lot. I certainly won’t be mentioning anything to do with work. I think the only bloggers that seem to get...
2 tags
Back to the party
A few years ago now I first got on the net (Isn’t it scary how much of this stuff hangs around?). I accumulated a lot of posts about a lot of nonsense. I was using Blogger as a back end to manage ‘dynamic’ content, serving it up via server side includes. All in xhtml goodness. I made a beginners mistake and let my webhost register my domain name in their name. So when they went...
1 tag
There vs Here (before Tumblr)
The only ‘old’ post I’m going to import. For a bit of fluidity. Although I’ve had to edit it a bit for context, and in the process made it more incoherent than it started.
There
I loved my site. I really did. It was made with my own fair hands. I liked the look of it. And it almost did everything I wanted (It was a portal for what I do on the net). And it allowed me to...