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Monthly Archives: August 2004
I made a video
This is a video I made on the way home from work the other day. Unfortunately I can’t work out how to make my server send the right MIME content type for it, so you’ll have to save it and … Continue reading
Posted in Minutiae
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Electro-optical memory device
Take a regular array of buckminsterfullerenes embedded in a layer of silicon dioxide grown on the surface of a silicon substrate. Diffuse a layer of silicon and a layer of gallium aluminium arsenide on top of that. If one doped … Continue reading
Posted in Invention
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Anticonspiracy
There is no conspiracy. What we saw was marsh gas refracting light from a weather balloon.
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The most important thing I ever learned
I wrote this somewhere else and someone said it really helped them. So I’m reproducing it here. The most important thing I’ve ever learnt is: You can only see your insides. You can only see other people’s outsides. When you … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Today I am victorious
I have a bank account. Anyone who would like to send me money is welcome to do so.
Posted in General
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Well paint me purple
and call me Susan. Zarlink made the CCDs for the Mars Exploration Rovers.
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Ultimate duality of existence
How many bits does a BitBLT blit if a long long’s longer than long?
Posted in General
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Dodge this!
http://dodgeit.com/ is very cool. It’s the tinyurl of email addresses.
Why…
…are dozens of recruiters suddenly trying to get hold of Symbian people? Even the ones who don’t know who I work for (and presumably assume I still work at Texas Instruments) are trying to get me to work for Symbian … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Minutiae
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Protect and Survivor
I’ve had an idea for a new reality TV show. It’s called ‘Protect and Survivor’. What you do is to get a group of people, and tell them you’re making a Big Brother type show. Put them in the Big … Continue reading
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Timothy
…has decided that he wants to be known as Leroy. He is a very silly person. I am only making this blog entry to wind him up.
Posted in Minutiae
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Ministry of Vague Paranoia
So, everyone should have their Protect and Survive booklets by now. What’s all that about, then? “Go in, stay in, tune in”? What? We’re to turn the TV on? Why? There are sixty five million people in this country, near … Continue reading
Posted in Anger
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Well, I suppose it’s good
Someone pointed me at PayFinder. It’s a website with a fairly impressive pay database. It tells me that: Male employees at Symbian Ltd earn 22% more than Female employees at Symbian Ltd I earn 17.6% more than the average UK … Continue reading
Geronimoooooo!
http://www.geronimojoe.com/ is new. And it’s published one of my stories! Woo. Web-fame is mine. (That’s the same as normal fame, only you don’t get any money or adoring fans, and certainly no groupies.)
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I did promise I’d never do this.
From the Belief-o-Matic: 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Liberal Quakers (91%) 4. New Age (90%) 5. Mahayana Buddhism (78%) 6. Secular Humanism (76%) 7. Reform Judaism (74%) 8. Theravada Buddhism (71%) 9. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants … Continue reading
Neutron rocket
Has anyone seriously considered neutrons as reaction mass in a nuclear-powered rocket? In a fast reactor the neutron velocity can approach the speed of light. It seems that a beam of high energy neutrons focussed on a stack of discs … Continue reading
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What’s a kernel?
What, indeed? There are two parts to a computer. From the original Colossus Analytical Engine to the ASCI White supercomputer, from the UK101 to the Nokia 6210, every single computer has two parts: hardware and software. Hardware, simply put, consists … Continue reading
Posted in Documentation
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What was that I meant to say?
I’ve just been described as “the Bill Hicks of kernel design”. I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad. (secretly pleased)
Dilberta’s Return
Editor’s note: Dilberta’s comments on my posting below got eaten by the comments engine. I’ve reproduced it here, with some reformatting. First allow me to clarify my position on matters. While in school I did an extensive paper on the … Continue reading
Posted in Anger
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