May 2011
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April 2011
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October 2010
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How hard can it be to buy a shirt?
While the rest of the family were enjoying being at the theatre watching ‘Hairspray’, I was enjoying not being at the theatre watching ‘Hairspray’. So far, so good. Prior to meeting everyone for a meal afterwards, I decided to go shopping “for some shirts”. This was to be the first foolhardy step in a depressingly unsuccessful attempt to add to my wardrobe.
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September 2010
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The Alternative Vote: explanation and discussion →
This is just a bookmark for my own reference, really: a nice write-up of how AV works and the things it fixes. And the things it doesn’t …
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August 2010
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How about a nice game of chess?
Here follows nostalgic ramblings about chess computers. You have been warned.
By around 1981, I had been already been playing in chess tournaments for a couple of years. I remember one tournament where, in the same weekend, I came across two new interesting pieces of technology, both of which were fascinating in different ways.
The tournament was held in a school and, in the school hall there...
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Scratch: learning programming for kids →
BOFHlet #1 has been playing with this quite a lot recently and seems to be picking up the idea of conditionality, loops, event-driven triggers and so on. Definitely a geek in training. But then again we knew that anyway…
Testing the Tumblr
Wondering about trying to use Tumblr instead of my current blog for stuff. Largely inspired by Dave Murphy’s post, I might try this as an experiment for a while.
Reasons for considering this approach:
Would save me having to maintain Wordpress on my main blog, which is a real pain especially since I hardly ever post…
Integration with Facebook and Twitter looks promising.
Just for...
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“If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we’ve solved it.”
– Arthur Kasspe