Category: Personal and misc

The “asking” vs “guessing” cultural spectrum is one of many things that divides British and American culture (broadly speaking, though it varies across the USA/UK). I was explaining this to an American friend from one of the southern states recently. It goes like this…

X is bad. So we should eliminate X, right?

A post about linguistics, and the word fallacies you need to avoid.

Non-original humorous post

Some attempts to solve the seating headache with software.

The order of service requires some Python hacking

Using my programming skills for higher purposes, part 1

A quick Family Fortunes game

I've blogged before about using trac as a personal wiki, now I've found I can use Emacs as my editor and trac browser it's even better...

Submitting tracks using MOC (Music on Console) and Last.fm

So, I'm back in Amman, time for some updates on what I've been doing this week...

I don't normally do really personal blog posts, but thought I'd make an exception to update family and so on about what I've been doing Jordan recently

A personal analysis of Beryl's usefulness.

This was a badly written attempt at satirising moral relativism, which I've decided to remove.

I'm currently without internet connection to my own computer, and I've been working out ways to make send and receiving e-mail as seamless as possible...

The Windows dos box (command prompt) sucks in many ways in comparison to an xterm (and I'm not even including 'command' vs 'bash' here). But if you have emacs you can make it suck a little bit less. "M-x shell" gets you shell mode, and you can select text etc, and use emacs keybindings for editing your commands etc.

Are the Google Talk servers finally talking to other Jabber Servers? I got an IM from my alter ego today...

I've somehow managed to get 'subscriber' level on Last.fm's music community site, and I'm really enjoying it.

Goodbye blogosphere! I'm off to read a good book :-)

I cleaned and tidied both my bedroom and my front room today...it was quite an interesting experience..[and some more interesting stuff about books]

Every possible type of spam...

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once, it said 'goodbye'...

GMail invitations up for grabs, and whines about living with other people's code

I found this in the instruction manual of my new iron, and it had me laughing out loud: WARNING: Never steam iron the garment you are currently wearing. Hilarious!

I'm now getting into proper working life for the first time in a good while...

First day at my new job today, and I'm having some issues returning to using Windows...

I like poetry that manages to use long words naturally...

First chance to blog in a while...

Just discovered comics by RSS...

It's never enough...

Private life of a web site bot.

Well, not exactly toothache. Last time I was at the dentist...

To shave or not to shave, that is the question:

Something my dad said about forgiveness in his epilogue on camp...

After two weeks holiday in Wales followed by Aber conference, I'm back to work again. Or should I say back to anything but work...

My paid work is pretty dull, but occasionally there is the satisfaction of doing a nice bit of coding...

what I've been up to over the past few days

Everyone who is anyone has a blog these days, so it's about time I had one too...