The topic for the Daily Shoot on Tuesday 16th February (#ds93) was "Things are always a-changin'. Make a photo that offers a snapshot of something being built, fabricated, or assembled." Talk about dropping the easy assignment into my lap: yesterday was the second day the contractors were in replacing our windows. What better way to celebrate this than through a photograph: […]
READ MOREclass="posterous_autopost">Something I've been pondering on given a couple of articles I read recently: I find I dislike (and have done for a while) developers who get entrenched in what they know and thereby deem everything else as being wrong. It's the worst kind of rut. They become immune to new ideas, new developments, new methodologies. […]
READ MOREAs it says over there in the sidebar (at least if you're reading this on the blog), I fancy myself an amateur photographer. It's possibly the only artistic thing I can get close to saying I can do, unless you count hand-crafted code as artistic. […]
READ MOREA week or so ago I ordered a new light fast notebook for my wife to replace her aging Dell XPS M1330. Aging as in 2 years old, but showing its age nevertheless. It came on Friday, and by Sunday I'd installed Microsoft Office on it and run the Easy Transfer app to copy over her documents and settings. […]
READ MOREclass='posterous_autopost'>Some time ago, I read in some issue of Women's Health, a magazine my wife subscribes to, that you can survive in the modern always-connected online world on just three passwords. One password for your financial institutions, one password for the less important sites (say, your social sites, or your shopping sites), and one password for everything which you don't consider important or particularly care about or is essence a one off. […]
READ MOREAnother in an occasional series where I freeze frame a DVD to see that the producers skimped on something they really shouldn't have skimped on. […]
READ MOREclass="posterous_autopost"> I'm sure we're all aware that the browser we use (the User Agent in internet-speak) reports back information to each web server we visit. But could a web server gain any information about who we are just from the browser? Could we be identified when we visit later on? You might think: easy, just turn off cookies and we'd be pretty much unidentifiable, but is that the case? […]
READ MOREThis is a very handy algorithm that I came across today, which is, according to this paper, due to John von Neumann. […]
READ MOREclass='posterous_autopost'>I use Windows 7 Home Premium as the OS in the various virtual machines I run. This is a space saving thing more than anything: I've limited the boot drive space to 20GB on my base VM so that I can have as many cloned VMs as I want on my external drive, and I'm assuming that Ultimate takes up a lot more room. Anyway... […]
READ MOREI picked this up the last time we went to England in September, and I was half way through it when I got the phone call from my sister in mid-December that my Dad had been admitted to hospital with a heart attack. […]
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