In my previous post on the K&E Deci-Lon slide rule, the normal sized images in the text were linked to some monster images for extra detail (and there is a lot of detail in a finely-machined slide rule — it's geek porn!). Since each monster image was of the order of 3 to 4MB in size I didn't want to soak up my fixed-sized, limited Go-Daddy bandwidth to host them. […]
READ MOREI have a fascination with older calculating devices, especially HP calculators and slide rules from various makers. And, so, I spend my book and article earnings on buying them. […]
READ MORE(In which I continue taking apart a Wordpress theme to make it work with Graffiti. Part I. Part II. Part IV. ) […]
READ MOREYou're familiar with the situation. You're at a party or a conference or in the mall, and you meet someone. A quick chat later and you want to exchange business cards or email addresses, and you find you don't have any of the former handy and neither of you have any writing implement to write on the back of your hand for the latter. So you try to remember the email address and of course fail miserably within 5 minutes. […]
READ MORE(In which I continue taking apart a Wordpress theme to make it work with Graffiti. Part I. Part III. Part IV.) […]
READ MOREThere were several reasons for choosing Graffiti as the CMS for my blog, but I suppose two were at the forefront: first, it was written in ASP.NET, and second it was very customizable, even to the point of writing plug-ins in C#. Since, in theory, I know this platform, this made it an attractive choice. […]
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Congratulations! You've reached Julian M Bucknall's personal web site and blog. In case you haven't heard of said Julian M Bucknall, (a) where have you been, and (b) you're in the company of billions, but I'm trying to rectify the fact ;-). I'm essentially a programmer by trade, an actor by ambition, and a computer scientist by osmosis. […]
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READ MORERather than repeat myself here (the DRY principle!), you can check out my personal home page for more about me. […]
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