Brian Meidell is hacking his workplace coffee machine. For serious. Dumping EPROMS, burning new ones. Not sure what he’s going to do with it yet, but it looks mighty fun.
SCIgen
14 April 2005
SCIgen produces randomised, automatic computer science papers. With graphs and diagrams and everything; clever Perl scripting combined with LaTeX abuse. The results are funny in themselves, but even better – the team of MIT grads who made it have been invited to give one of these talks at a conference. Bravo, young sirs.
Tiger here we come
12 April 2005
Woo yeah, baby: OS X Tiger is here in seventeen days… and for once, I’ll be able to buy it.
Multiple loops on the same page in WordPress 1.5
12 April 2005
I’ve been meaning to write up some of my WordPress-fu since I started playing with it. This is partly because the WordPress support forums are staggeringly unhelpful at times, especially to medium-skill users. (Note: this is not a flame or a troll; it is an issue I will return to at a later date. Whilst I like the product, I have several worries and issues with the community around it).
This is about the first big chunk of fiddling I did with WordPress, and makes it very useful as a more general purpose CMS, as well as if you have many categories on your site and want to display them all, at once, differently. So, without further ado: how to display multiple loops in WordPress 1.5.
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PerlNomic
11 April 2005
PerlNomic is a game of Nomic played out entirely in Perl source code. In short, it hurts my head.
Pic of me from Blogs In Action
11 April 2005
Semi-goofy photo of me from Blogs In Action (courtesy of Lee Bryant). Focused, intent… and writing notes on my Powerbook. Still, sideburns in full effect.
Calm Weekend, Culinary Action
10 April 2005
A lovely weekend there, then; very quiet, very calm. No big surprises, but lots of lies-in (I think that’s how you’re meant to pluralise it), reading, and tidying stuff up. House looking a lot better now. Also, as the picture to the left testifies: we made meatloaf.
It was awesome. Not only did we make it (and eat it), but there’s still tons left over to make sandwiches with. So, I hear you ask, how do you make meatloaf?
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Typo
07 April 2005
“Typo is a absolutely minimal weblogging engine”. There’s no admin interface; you just set it up and from that point post to it via XMLRPC. Nifty – it’s a database driven app, unlike, say, Blosxom, but all from desktop applications. Plus, it’s written in the language and framework du jour – Ruby on Rails.
Another launch
07 April 2005
Another launch, another toot on the trumpet: the New Statesman has launched its General Election website, which will aggregate all its election coverage over the coming crucial weeks.