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Io — Day Two
Wow. Day two messed with my head. I woke up a bit tired this morning to have a crack at it and got really baffled by how to make a fibonacci sequence. Just drew a total blank. So, I dug out some old c code I had and copied that into io. Which is sort of cheating, but got me going and also helped …
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Review — Savanna Dry South African Cider
My continuing cider odyssey went in a most peculiar direction with my first crack at a South African cider. I had no idea that such a thing even existed and felt a little bad for incurring all those food miles. So my hopes were high as I settled down …
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Collaborative pornography and making Windows 7 rsync
This should be an unusual blog. I’m attempting to combine a belated shoutout for nor’s collaborative porn project, OpenSauce with a howto guide to making rsync work on windows. Lets see how it that works out. Nor's radicalx project has previously inv …
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Io — Day One
After getting Io installed, I am feeling a little smug with myself. I don't know if its just because the language is so different, or because I’ve had a beer or what but the Io introductory material seems more complex than that for Ruby. However, looking back at what was covered I suspect tha …
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Io — Day 0, setting it up on Debian
Well, it has been a while since Ruby, so I thought it was time to have a crack at the next of the my Seven Languages In Seven Weeks challenges, its time to play with Io. As it turns out Io was a bit of a faff to install on Debian Squeeze. So I’ve written up a day 0 tute on how to do just th …
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Ettercap remote_browser Plugin Fun
I’ve just spent some serious time getting Ettercap's remote_browser plugin to work as expected on my home network. The plugin allows you to view the pages that another user on your network is browsing. What actually made the difference in the end was changing the argument ordering. For once d …
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Sack Boris 2012: Ruling class flim—flam—nonsense maker
I was chuffed to learn that the folks at Common People had been able to use the code I wrote for the What will George Osborne Cut Next random cut generator into a Boris Johnson flim-flam answer generator. You ask Boris a question and he talks errant ruling class nonsense. Just like the real thi …
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May 2011 Reading
My pal penguin recommended that I read this one. Its a lovely pop maths (if that is even a genre) investigation, taking in everything from the anthropology of number and counting to the history of maths to why the …
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Review — Newtown Estate Still Cider
Greetz ciderpeeps! This week I’ve learned that I’m now top of the results for cider reviews on Google (i.e. dot com, not dot co dot uk). Sweet. I’ve also learned that I say autumn a lot in my cidery …
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Ruby — Day Three
The last day is definitely the most fun. We get to play with metaprogramming with one bigger question, of which more shortly. My reflections on Ruby were it was cool to catch up with the language. I’d sort of forgotten quite how nifty it was to play with. For my money its more Perlish than th …
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