Wow, this New Economy stuff just gets more and more interesting. First, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought out MySpace for a massive $580 million. In recent months, that’s been called a bargain. In fact, it has been, given that Google’s paid $900 million for advertising rights on the site, making Murdoch a 55% return in his [...]
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Big update
06Oct06I’ve been busy lately, what with school finally starting and Ramadan and all. I’m just posting a few bullet points for now, and then a description of life at LSE so far will follow tomorrow, IA. You need to read this article by Uri Avnery. Go ahead, read it, I’ll wait. It’s worth your time. [...]
On Wordpress
23Sep06Well, my 1-year experiment with Typo is over. It wasn’t all bad, but eventually I got fed up of having to babysit my blog. And in the meantime, Wordpress caught up with the only real functional advantages of Typo (AJAX integration). The migration has been fairly smooth thus far, thanks to SQL from Stuart Johnston [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Free Starbucks coffee!
26Jul06Kiat’s awesome. His advice on how to get yourself some free Starbucks coffee is priceless, and hearing him talk about ‘Grants’ and ‘Jacksons’ is side-splitting stuff. Sufferin’ suckotash!
Theme slightly broken…
18Jul06If you’re seeing a lot of ‘Application Errors’ messages, it’s likely because this theme the old method of rendering sidebars. Interestingly enough, they render OK on the front page, but not when you view a particular entry. Anyway, I’ll fix it tonight…
If you haven’t checked out distcc do so forthwith. It’s a distributed build tool that sits on top of make and makes C++ builds significantly faster. Our Linux build previously took 23 minutes on a dual-processor Linux blade; with distcc on 19 hosts, it now builds in under 2:30. Clearly not a linear improvement, but [...]
RFC: My theme
04Jul06SAA complained a while back that the colours make things hard to read, and I’ve been meaning to fix them ever since. Obviously, that hasn’t happened yet, and it’s very possible I won’t really bother with it till I have time to implement some of the other things I want to do with it. Probably more [...]
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