Continuing a recent trend of doing things I should have done long ago (switching to Opera, swing dancing, paying attention to classes), I have switched from Windows to Linux. Yes, finally, the day has arrived, and it’s a bigger deal than you think, given that: I once actively (well, semi-actively) pimped Microsoft software as a Student [...]
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Links Day
10Nov06The stupidest man alive. ‘Nuff said. Now everyone can dunk. Yep, all you have to do is shell out $50-150 an hour, and your personal trainer will plyometric-ise you till you finally feel like a man. FM, SH, I hope you’re paying attention. What is 78 * 23? And am I stupider if it takes me longer [...]
Aaaack, Math!
30Oct06Yep, that’s my current state of mind. I’ve successfully wasted half of the weekend (and am proceeding to waste more, keystroke by keystroke right now…) doing this, that and the other, and now I have just a few hours left to buckle down and get some work done. Actually, I got a little bit of work [...]
I gotta say, I’m pretty pissed off with IE 5/6 now. I didn’t bother looking at the new theme with it and it turns out now that it looks pretty crappy. Well known problems, such as the transparent PNG issue and CSS incompatibilities make this such a massive headache. On this blog, for example, the [...]
Brave New Economy
13Oct06Wow, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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