Seems Natalie Portman is set to star in another film shot here in Northern Ireland. This isn’t long after the announcement that George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire HBO Series is to be shot here too. It’s great to see the Movie and TV market heating up here, and [...]
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I’ve been slowly upgrading my understanding of complex math lately, by working (in python) through stuff on Project Euler and betterexplained, etc. I just discovered the derivations package in Debian. It’s a book of applied math proofs, styled after K&R’s The C Programming Language’s logical progression and easy reference (K&R’s TCPL is a [...]
I went to a proper garden centre today, and got better soil for my bonsai. Then I removed all the soil from my Chinese Elm’s roots, and discovered the worst case scenario…
Root rot. Fairly advanced root rot. Not good. I don’t think I overwatered it, but it almost certainly got overwatered [...]
Wow. I never realised just how far this multimedia convergence thing was going to go until today.
http://www.getdemocracy.com/
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http://www.podcastingnews.com/forum/link_211.htm
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Bittorrent site feeds
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For anyone who’s still a bit lost, the podcasting thing has been spreading to video for a while. But it’s always been just a little too awkward, until now. But [...]
Linux kernel 2.6.14 came out recently, so I’ve been reading through the changelogs. One of the new features is built-in support for the accelerometer in IBM Thinkpads, which detects when they’re falling, and protects the harddrive by parking its heads.
But there’s a small debate going on now, about why Linux has to do this, [...]
The Debian Project has lost another member of its community. Jens
Schmalzig (jensen) died on July 30th in a tragic accident at his
workplace in Munich.
Jens was involved in Debian as a maintainer of several packages, as
supporter of the PowerPC port, as a member of the kernel team, and was
instrumental in taking the PowerPC kernel package [...]
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Estis longtempa tago. Sed, min pagis, do estas bona
Dormi, eble sonĝi, mi pensas. Dormi nun, fakte!
Mi returniĝas al lernu.net ĉi tiun nokton. Antaŭe, mi lernadis aliloke, sed nun, mi prepariĝas!
Sed… mi ankoraŭ ne scias kiam uzi “iĝ” kaj “ig” kaj, kelkfoje “ad”, ankaŭ. Iam, mi scius! Eble, la demandoj ke mi skribas al mi instruisto estos utila. Eble ne, sed mi vivas en espero
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Yeah, I’ve gotta stop those clichéd titles. But not right now
Today (apparently) was the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s birthday. There was a really beautiful show on BBC in tribute to him, produced by Amnesty International and others. Basically, lots of actors and other famous figures, either commenting on the [...]
SVGSlice, my little python program to slice up images for webpages, has come a long way in the last two days. It now has two different parsing engines: one for simple grid-like slicing, and one for slicing specially defined rectangles on a specific slices layer in the drawing. I’ve also built-in image loading [...]
