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Monthly Archives: April 2005
Pushing hard
I am in Cambridge. We are abusing a BBC Micro. This is traditional.
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Interview Me
Okay, the way this works is: I ask someone to interview me. Someone asks me five questions. I answer them on my blog. If you have a blog, you can ask me to interview you. I ask you five questions. … Continue reading
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Invasion of the Noddysnatchers
Pod Person isn’t listening. Ctshk-ctshk-ctshk-ctshk. He’s sitting down. The iPod (or iRiver, or maybe even his pimp-o-phone’s MP3 player) has been a lifesaver for him. He spends three hours a day on the Tube and he’s damned if he’s going … Continue reading
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Business head
Pink Paper doesn’t straphang. He leans. In his striped shirt and tie he angles against the dangle, sealing himself off from all those who might impugn his briefcase. Inside the briefcase- well, noone knows for sure, but if he’s not … Continue reading
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Word of the Day
Questino n. A weakly interacting question, only posed to maintain the principle of conservation of spin. Presidential press conferences are particularly rich sources of questino particles. Compare neutrino.
Centennial Man
The Oldie firmly believes herself to be a goodie. She doesn’t straphang; her crunched and hunched form can’t reach the bar, and she doesn’t need to anyway. A fifteen-year-old girl-slash-boy with a cruel haircut and a mean iPod stands, dripping … Continue reading
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Commuted sentence
Wrapped in space-age fibre, the Commuter straphangs all the way, every day. Nothing touches him; he is Kevlar-armoured against personality, his nose in filtered air, his eyes behind a Ray-Ban screen, his ears wrapped in comforting velour and plastic. In … Continue reading
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Break Request
I want another holiday. They’re much less stressful than working. I’m sorry I’ve been sparse lately but my life at work hasn’t exactly been exciting. Build failed this, new submission that, final draft the other. Sigh.
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Oh noes!
Overheard at work: A: Does anyone know where C sits? B: On the second floor. A: What does she look like? D: Uhh… you need a code to get into the second floor. A: Oh. D: And it’s not the … Continue reading
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Talk to me (don’t talk to me)
I’ve been playing with Skype for a while now. It is utterly awesome- IP telephony that Just Works, indeed. I mostly use it for text chat with Tom, but today they launched two new services- SkypeIn and voicemail. So I … Continue reading
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Reverse Star Trek
You know that rule that odd-numbered Star Trek movies suck and even-numbered ones, um, rule far less? (I actually liked the first one. And Insurrection. But never mind.) ARM processors seem to be the opposite of that. Are even-numbered ARM … Continue reading
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*cherchunk* scrrrrch *cherchunk* scrrrrch
Here are the rest of my photos.
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This Is Not Idealog
But I had an idea: the pop-up OpenGL book. Instead of having pictures of the intended results of your coding, it could have three dimensional popups! It’s brilliant! (If anyone makes this I want a cut.)
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Road User
Now that I’ve been back on the black stuff for a few weeks, I have a few observations I’d like to make. Truck drivers: you say fuel is too expensive. You’d use a lot less fuel if you didn’t keep … Continue reading
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