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iPod Classic Verdict (so far)

[reading:Terry Pratchett, "Making Money"] By dint of transferring many gigabytes of MP3 files from my Powerbook to my PC, I managed to get my new iPod working. Well, sort of. Compared to my old 30GB...

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End of Another Era

[reading:George R. R. Martin, "Armageddon Rag"; recently Christine Denniston, "The Meaning of Tango"] End of another era: I finally got around to selling my darkroomgear. A shame in some...

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Doh

[reading:Barbara Hambly, "Renfield"] Note to self: when replacing an inner tube because of a puncture, check whether the outer tyre still has whatever caused the puncture in the first place embedded....

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Debugger Translation

After having to use three different debuggers in two days, I got around to producing a debugger translation table for future reference.

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iPod Classic Verdict (continued)

Now that I've upgraded my laptop, I've shifted the iPod back into Mac mode which means I can try out a couple more features. Calendar The calendar only seems to have a month view (which is too small;...

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De Facto to De Jure

[reading:Alastair Reynolds, "Galactic North"; recently Scott Lynch, "Red Seas Under Red Skies", Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee, "On Intelligence"]

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Bubble Bath + Jacuzzi = ?

[reading:Neal Asher, "Polity Agent"]

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O for Oxygen, 0 for Zero

[reading:Bjørn Lomborg, "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming"; recently Charles Stross, "The Jennifer Morgue"] Shocking. The reporting of science in the media has always...

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What's For Dinner?

[reading:Gerard Taylor, "Capoeira 100"]Previously, previously elsewhere.

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Paranoia

[reading:Warren Ellis, "Crooked Little Vein"] Apparently you can never be paranoid enough. My backup system for the laptop was one on-site external hard disk for Time Machineone offsite backup on the...

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Genius

Well, my laptop is now in for repair, and I've got a new iPod. After the crash, the iPod demanded to be restored from iTunes, and continued to demand this even after I'd restored it a dozen or so...

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Back to Normality

[reading:Richard Kaye, "The Mathematics of Logic: A Guide to Completeness Theorems and their Applications"] So my laptop is back, and the Time Machine restore has gone smoothly (mostly), and I now...

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Picture Sale

[reading:Yannis Haralambous, "Fonts and Encodings"; recently Joss Whedon, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home"] Apparently I (sort of) sold my first picture last week, which was a framed print...

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Remote Reset

[reading:Neil Gaiman, "Eternals"] Someone at work was complaining the other week about the difficulties of testing with the OSE board. The board needs to have the reset button pressed after each test,...

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Back /home

[reading:Iain Banks, "The Steep Approach to Garbadale"] After a long break, I've just reinstated Linux as an OS on one of my machines. I was tempted to go back to Slackware, which I used from 1993 to...

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Ken acquires restraint (for some unfathomable reason)

[reading:Mary Gentle, "Ilario: The Lion's Eye"; recently Robert Harris, "Imperium"] Imagine my surprise. Unlike every other year, this year's hike in the GLA part of my council tax bill is below...

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At the Zoo

[reading:St. Clair, John, "Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine"] The plus side of going to the zoo: The slightly more disconcerting side: But someone didn't seem that impressed (he was more...

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Programmed Obsolescence Bug

[reading:Donald Knuth, "Digital Typography"; recently Neil Gaiman, "M is for Magic"; Neil Gaiman, "Odd and the Frost Giants"; Atul Gawande, "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance"] We had a new...

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--work-properly

[reading:Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue, "The Royal Road to Card Magic (revised edition)"; recently Henning Nelms, "Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers"] Today's --work-properly option:...

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Spine: Still Evil

[reading:Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Sharing Knife: Passage"; recently Joe Abercrombie, "The Blade Itself", Richard Morgan, "Black Man", Alastair Reynolds, "The Prefect"]The spine is evil. Still....

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