Month: September 2005
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A Jolly Good Fundraiser
Just got back from three days of fundraising for Aberystwyth Nightline, selling hot dogs, burgers, and fries at a stall at the University "Fresher's Fair". That was pretty successful.
In other news, a large padded A4 envelope arrived at The Flat today, addressed to Paul. The stamps, letter header etc. all seem to imply that the … -
The Aber Effect
Last night really works as a great example of the 'Aber Effect'. Claire and I went along to Sundeep's housewarming party, where she was feeding curry to her housemates and those of us who came along to welcome her back into Aberystwyth. I'd also promised to help sort her computer out with an internet connection, …
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Foreshadowing?
This photo was shared here retroactively, on 26 May 2019. It could possibly be seen, in hindsight, as foreshadowing the four of us pictured in bed together here ending up in a set of polyamorous relationships together a few years later.
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Interview With Hayoa Miyazaki
The Guardian ran an interview with Hayao Miyazaki, director of such films as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Tonari no Totoro. My favourite bit of the interview:
Miyazaki taps a cigarette from a silver case. The Disney deal suits him, he explains, because he has stuck to his guns. His refusal to grant merchandising rights … -
scan.co.uk
Ruth wrote:
We are in the process of ordering a new computer. Most of the bits are coming from Scan. Now, their range is lovely, and their postage policy is reasonably sensible, but they have a dumb policy on debit cards.
If you pay with a debit card (instead of a credit card), you can … -
Magic Story
Inspired by Andy's PassThePageGame on the RockMonkey wiki - a collaborative storytelling game based on that silly game you used to play at school, I've written my own tool:
MagicStory is a collaborative wiki storytelling tool designed to be harder to "run away" with than normal wikifiction. Having read the story, participants can write a suggested … -
Insensitive Humour
Jon'll love it.
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Rock Exchange v1.0
Rock Exchange, my new RockMonkey WikiGame, has been launched. Go play!
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Stressy Bear
Eek! That'll teach me to procrastinate! I've been putting off various jobs I've needed to do for work this last week and a half, thinking that they all needed to be done by Friday this week. But it turns out there's a mighty amount of stuff that needs to be done by tomorrow morning.
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Ruby Active Record Associations [PNG]
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Ruby Active Record Associations [PNG].
Understanding has_one, has_many, belongs_to, etc. -
How to Hack Firefox to Make it Faster!
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: How to Hack Firefox to Make it Faster!.
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The Champagne Murders
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Rock Exchange
This weekend I hope to release Rock Exchange, my latest WikiGame on the RockMonkey wiki. I'm just finishing performing some tests and fine-tuning on it now. Here's a screenshot:
In Rock Exchange, players will be able to invest their hard-earned Rocks (a unit of currency) in shares in the various pages on the RockMonkey wiki. The … -
Client Of The Day
Oh, some of our clients are funny. A client of ours, who hosts her web site and e-mail with us, calls me up because she has difficulty getting access to her webmail:
Her: "My e-mail doesn't work."
Me: (not knowing much about her configuration) "Are you using a web browser to check your e-mail, over the web? … -
Frag!
Frag! arrived this afternoon, earlier than expected. If anybody wants to come around to The Flat in advance of Naruto Night this evening, we can have a quick blast at it... what do you think?
In other news, Predictive Solutions, with whom we share the offices on this, the first floor of the Aber Technium, are …