Preston and ForumPreston was fun, if a little hectic. I am waiting for pictures of the “bigger than Nick” server that we were playing with. It was good to see people at forum, although I hav realised that I have spent quite a lot of time in a small team with small meetings and people who agree with me, this made forum very frustrating. Also, my office is very hot, so I’ve come home for a bit. Today’s dinosaur comic is good, as is buying tanks on amazon, check out the comments! |
Pirates!Last night I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest with one of the world’s foremost cryptozoologists and others from CREEM. It was pretty good, although I think they could have easily shaved off about an hour from the movie or replaced the time with more cool pirate fight scenes. But that was yesterday, I’m now sitting at Preston FM putting together some stuff for Global Village. Before I go, I feel I must dump some links: lies about St Andrews, the guy who traded a rred paper clip for a house and go software! |
code monkeyI just looked at a line count on the code I’ve been working on at CREEM. My FORTRAN code has just hit 1300 lines and between mrds version 1.2 (just before I started) and the code currently in CVS there is a difference of 2000 lines. I’m quite pleased. It would, of course, be nice if I had already finished this FORTRAN code… |
DJ Shadow at the Sage (Gateshead)Holy crap! 27th August. I’ve got mine! If you’re going give me a bell. Thanks dad! |
linkslinkslinksJust some quick links… A cool applications called wink which lets you create Flash movies of what you’re doing on your PC (ideal for tutorials etc), EasyUbuntu is a great way to get all of the bells and whistles that you need once you’ve installed Ubuntu (thanks Nick.) Finally an interesting page at Cambridge CL about circumventing the great firewall of China. The PDF of the paper gives a good technical discussion of various techniques for blocking traffic on such a large scale. |
all work and no blogging makes Lawrence a busy boy…Well, I’ve been working on the mrds Fortran optimisation stuff quite a lot (over 1000 lines of code now) and I’ve also been doing a lot of Global Village related stuff. Although, we did make it into the Times! I’m currently trying to remaster Knoppix to do transcoding. Which is time consuming to say the least… In other news, bands which name themselves after levels in Batman games for the NES are usually cool. Get cape. Wear cape. Fly. are no exception, as they proved on 6Music just the other day. I, like many others aparently have chosen to switch to Ubuntu on my iBook. It’s rather fast, nice and unix-y. I think that’s all for now… |
Google calendarIncase you were wondering how to quickly put a lot of new events into Google Calendar you need to write a CSV file with the following headers: "Subject","Start Date","Start Time","End Date","End Time","All day event","Description" Which comes in very useful when importing data from a spreadsheet; as I found out this afternoon. |
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