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I’m a geek, and a coder, and sometimes a drunk, and often a pain in the neck.

Memory

Running multiple VMware instances eats RAM. Fortunately, RAM is cheap (not quite as cheap as you think, since it’s fully buffered MacPro modules, but nevertheless)

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2010 05 02 code
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IWM

(no, not the Integrated Woz Machine of Apple fame, but: ) the Imperial War Museum. Which I visited with Paul, and is a grand collection of tanks, guns, mines, chunks of aircraft and the like, from 1914 onwards. It’s not as interesting (for me) as Duxford, where they keep the big aircraft, but it’s free [...]

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2009 10 16 culture
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Three men, one boat (and a dog)

I finally finished Jerome K Jerome’s (I’d kill to be called that) often referenced tale of a Victorian lark up the Thames. Plenty of parts are laugh-out-loud funny, at least by my low standards, and the period nature of the book (seen from current times) merely adds to the humour. There’s factual references to things [...]

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2009 10 12 books Comments (2)

Time-wasting Flash game of the day

This one is really bad. In a glorious 8-bit way.

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2009 09 04 gaming
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New definition of ‘teenage’

A somewhat novel definition of teenage, on the BBC news website.

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2009 07 21 comedy
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Notes from Denmark

Assorted things I learned from a few days in Denmark. Despite what some people may claim, Martini Rosso is never a good thing to drink. Danish looks like mix of German and English (but not in the same way as Dutch). This should not fool (novice) German-speakers into thinking they can pronounce Danish words, they [...]

2009 07 17 Uncategorized
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Driving North

There were two photo-worthy spectacles from the drive up the M1/A1 yesterday – the first I couldn’t easily stop to capture, but consisted of very thin but dense layer of fog around Durham – not even as thick as the tree-tops, just sitting on the ground in the hollows. A really great, eerie sight. The second spectacle [...]

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2009 07 06 Uncategorized
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Camden

The rebuilt (mostly, work still on-going) Camden Market seems pretty good to me, post-fire. Fewer places selling ‘I love London’ tat, and more selling interesting clothes and stuff – as well as some trendy boutiques for those who wish to spend sixty pounds on a t-shirt. It still has the rabbit-warren feeling, but not in [...]

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2009 07 05 travel Comments (0)

Language FAIL

The joke langauge madness continues, on Flickr:

2009 06 03 comedy
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Narcissism

Beltane was pretty damn good.

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2009 05 02 art Comments (0)