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Author Archives: tom
Singadraw
I’ve just come across Singadraw, a lovely blog charting the experience of moving to a new city, a new job, and a new country. Fantastic stuff.
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The Shaggs and other things
Listening to Radio 4’s Pick of the Week earlier on I came across a clip of The Shaggs Philosophy of the World and with work to be avoided I thought I’d check them out on YouTube. The bizarre backstory aside … Continue reading
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The doubly-comforting clock
There are two sorts of clock. One is the sort of clock which is set to an approximation of the actual time, as defined by GMT, adjusted for your locality and any daylight saving measures currently in effect. I shall … Continue reading
Debugging embedded platforms using GDB and Python
I recently received some great news — an article I wrote on embedded debugging using GDB and Python has been published in Linux Journal. I got my free copies of the magazine yesterday, and my article is in second place … Continue reading
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Brighton Rock
A loan from a friend at work, I read Brighton Rock shortly after watching Rowan Joffe’s recent screen reworking of the title. Having rather enjoyed the movie I was expecting good things of the book. I discovered a much darker … Continue reading
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No Country For Old Men
I’d watched the Cohen Brother’s film before I read this novel. Coming to the book itself it was not difficult to see the appeal of the text to a film-maker: McCarthy’s writing is so sparse it is practically a screen … Continue reading
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Commandline blogging is go
As I moaned about previously, one of WordPress’ downsides (for me) is that my data’s primary home is now on my web server rather than my PC. Another niggle is that I have to create blogposts using the web browser … Continue reading
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Importing my legacy posts was easy
Thanks to the combined power of the WordPress Import HTML Pages plugin, the WordPress Mass Page Remover plugin, and a bit of good old awk and sed, I have now successfully imported my blog posts from the old system. Huzzah, … Continue reading
Brave new world
As you may have already realised from the tell-tale signs littered about the page, I have decided move away from the “roll your own” approach to blog software. I am now using WordPress. I have to confess, I have been … Continue reading
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Haitian Folkloric drumming
Browsing around YouTube I came across this fantastic Haitian ensemble. Well worth a listen.
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