Some things really boggle me about the UK. For example, those incredibly convenient machines in the US where you pour in change and get rational denominations back simply don’t exist. And I’m not saying they aren’t at supermarkets, I’m saying they simply don’t exist. I walked into my bank the other day to cash a cheque [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Paris, Continued
30Aug06Wherein our protagonist visits the Petit Palais, takes a bike tour at dusk and a barge ride at night, and tries (unsuccessfully) to appreciate modern art. This is an account of Sunday and Monday. My hotel was located just off Place de Clichy, which is right in the heart of the Montmartre district. Montmartre, by the [...]
LSE founded by Sidney Webb!?
24Aug06This is bizarre — I honestly did not know this till just a minute ago. The LSE ‘about’ page names Beatrice and Sidney Webb as its founders, but neglects to mention that they were both prominent and early members of the Fabian Society. They, along with (my man) George Bernard Shaw and others, are credited [...]
A few more pictures
18Aug06I updated the Denmark entries with some pictures, here and here. It might help make things make a little more sense. Or not :)I’m fairly unhappy with the state of the blog, both because of general stability issues and because this theme (and the others I’ve tried) aren’t great for photo-blogging. Hell, they’re not even [...]
This was at the Place de la Concorde…she waded right into the gooey water. Ahem, ’nuff said.
As Nelly would say, hurrr we go. I’ve tested the script several times in the last few days and all the bugs I’ve come across have been quashed, I’m pleased to say. The trickiest one had to do with something caused by that most evil of Clearcase objects, the symlink. Basically, if you have a symlink [...]
Yay, a response from the Subversion dev mailing list! They pointed me here, which is a pretty good description of the format. I’m not sure I understand why they chose to model it on RFC-822, since it’s not a very efficient format, and also because they don’t adhere to it particularly strictly. The key thing [...]
Bonjour, Paris!
13Aug06Note: As noted, this post was started in Paris, but I was cut short by my laptop battery, and since haven’t bothered finishing it. Well, here it is… This entry is being composed from the second story of the Eiffel Tower, my reward for lugging my laptop (and charger) around all day in my backpack. Now [...]
More on Subversion dump files
11Aug06I posted a message to the Subversion dev mailing list last night asking if there’s a formal spec for the dump format. Fingers crossed, I’ll get some answers. In the meanwhile, I’ve been playing around with dumpfiles generated from my test repository to see how the parser responds to variable whitespace etc. My Clearcase-to-SVN script is [...]
Subversion dump files
08Aug06As one of the last things I do at the bank, I’ve been asked to look at how we might import our vob’s substantial history into Subversion, should we decide to move from Clearcase. It’s a bit of a hairy problem, since Clearcase and Subversion have completely different versioning schemes (eg, changesets vs. status for [...]
Hmm…pictures
03Aug06Or, picture, rather. I just spent about 5 minutes resizing and uploading a picture from the Brighton bike ride and trying to put it where I want it to show up. I can’t update my CSS file from work, so I had to align, fix border etc. with HTML, which is always ugly. I don’t think [...]
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