So what? Quite right! Well, I’ve got sore fingers, and I can play some chords without that annoying buzzing sound. I’m making progress, and it feels good. Truth be told, this guitar has been sitting in the corner of my room for years now – I made my (then) girlfriend buy one for my twentieth … Continue reading I’m learning to play the guitar
Hosted wordpress blogs allow reasonably rich text editing features, which I tend not to use. They don’t always translate well to places other than the website, and aren’t really guaranteed to work on other platforms. For example, I use NetNewsWire Lite as an RSS aggregator on my mac. You usually just get the text there, … Continue reading Posting F# sourcecode in hosted WordPress blogs
A perennial question on messageboards, BBSs, and mailing lists of a certain kind is “what music do you tend to listen to when coding?” I’m a fairly lazy listener, so my answer tends to be “whatever’s on”. But Apple’s Genius Playlist feature has revolutionised the way I listen to music. I’ve never really bothered with … Continue reading Genius
Hiring good developers is hard. It turns out, there just aren’t that many out there. Occasionally, you’ll get lucky. You’ll look further afield and find a pocket of clever people, but you’ll bring them all in on tasty salaries, only to find that they all clock off at five pm, or they want to re-write … Continue reading Hiring good developers
This is one of the prettiest things i’ve seen on the web in quite a while: Multicolr Search lab The team from Idée Inc. use Flickr’s API to generate a large corpus of ‘interesting’ images. Then they filter based on colour to show similar images. Further, their technology ‘Piximilar’ finds images that look like an … Continue reading Multicolr search
I recently did this, and it’s a little convoluted. I don’t have an external CD drive, or a >1Gb flash drive, so I thought I’d give netboot a go. Here’s what to do: On your ibook, start the tftp server: sudo /sbin/service tftp start Download and extract the pxe image to your tftp folder: wget … Continue reading Ubuntu Hardy Heron on Asus Aspire One via netboot from an iBook over wifi