Went for a walk with the dogs in our local wood which, delightfully, is called ‘Nutwood’ [link]. It had just finished raining and the pungent aroma from the wild garlic (Allium ursinum) was amazing.[link]
The wild garlic grows in woodland, in near or among the bluebells, and is a wonderful sign of spring.
Pictures of wild [...]
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We have had some high winds around here recently. I like to take a walk with the dogs after the storms have died down but our way was blocked by this large tree trunk/branch that was blown over by the violent winds:
tree approach
Exploring its branches I came across an old carving high up on the [...]
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(okay so it’s no real fireworks but a netlogo demo from my masters degree but hey)
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Oh No! Another one. Courtesy of digg this time but generally I blame thegeneva for the whole sorry business.
I like that this one tries to stratify your nerdiness but was most tickled by the fact that…
44.8% of test takers are gals,
53.1% are guys,
…the rest (2.1%) are confused.
17.1% of test takers get aroused by “iPhone,” [...]
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We can’t get enough of them but we don’t want to see them.
They’re not alive but they can be dead.
They can be on or off and be millions of colours but only one at a time.
A dot of light an electric mark.
The indivisible atom of visual communication.
Revealing the machinations of the electronic brain.
So technically speaking…
A [...]
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I’m sorry.
I thought the Wii was supposed to be region free. (It isn’t - Doh!)
I know you trusted me and ordered your US version of Paper Mario because it was agonising to have to wait until November 2007 for the UK version!
I know you didn’t check for compatabilty because you believed your dumb husband [...]
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So Java Applets did not take over the web interface, because the Java Runtime (JRE) did not become ubiquatous when JRE 2 was left out of IE.
Javascript does a fare job of papering over the browsers cracks but does not cut it on the GUI front.
CSS is struggling to be a standard under the weight [...]
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On Thursday January 11 Slashdot [link] argued over the inherent shoot-yourself in the foot insecurities of PHP when coded by the naive. This reminded me of a previous real life argument and on-line rambling [link]. I have found myself using a number of more secure PHP programming idioms along with PHP’s rag-bag of sanitizing functions [...]
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Poking around in the innards of wordpress. Normal service will be resumed shortly….
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