June162009

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Luna Park

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Luna Park

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Posted on June 16, 2009 05:21 AM

Fish

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Fish

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Posted on June 16, 2009 05:21 AM
June152009
Metacrap
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Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Review
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Why It Feels Good to Scratch — "Imagine there is a little gate within the spinal cord that allows pain messages to travel up to the brain, says Warfield. Usually, smaller nerves send pain signals, the gate opens and the messages of "Ow, I hit my elbow!" make it to the brain. Larger nerves - which pick up on pressure, touch and position of the limb - will send messages to block the gate, crowding out some of the competing pain messages. Moreover, these larger nerves will trigger the body to release endorphins, the same hormones responsible for the natural high after exercise or sex. "
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LED-Backlit Laptops - Reviews by PC Magazine
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Pixel Qi - Home
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June142009
The Three Ticking Time Bombs Under British Politics — "Gordon Brown has failed because he has been paralysed, unable to take any substantial decisions at all - except to keep drifting in a Blairite direction. With the honourable exception of using the state to stop the banks collapsing, he has carried on with hardline Blairism: building more airports, trying to part-privatise the Post Office, and apologising profusely to millionaires for his meager tax rise, even though 68 per cent of the public support it. In reality, he has failed because of a double-whammy: he has continued with lousy and unpopular right-wing policies, and he sells them appallingly. If he remains as Labour leader, he will hand the country to David Cameron, who will dismantle the few good left-wing policies that snuck through New Labour - tax credits, SureStart (our equivalent to HeadStart), Educational Maintenance Allowances."
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thomas.apestaart.org » rip update
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Slashdot | Why Programming Rituals Work
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thomas.apestaart.org » The Art of the Rip
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June132009
June122009
Network Layer: Route — Sample 9.3.1 REST routing layer
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June112009
USENIX - Invited Talk: Objecting to Objects — I was in the sixth grade when this paper was published and only now is it kind-of-sort-of being thought about.
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June102009
CS193P - Cocoa Programming | Announcements
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June092009
June022009
Functions (COM)
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June012009

Sam Thursfield

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L'été du code, première semaine

Hello! I haven't posted here so far (although I think a couple of really old blog posts of mine appeared a while ago for some reason) .. so I thought I would write a note about my plans for this summer.

GSettings & GTK
I took on the task this summer of closing bug 494329, and in the process helping Ryan to make gsettings rock extra hard. You can track my progress if this sort of thing interests you in gitorious: http://gitorious.org/gsettings-gtk/. This includes hopefully adding GLADE support for gsettings bindings and converting some existing applications, so that the API is actually useful in real-world situations. I'm really excited that I will be saving people hours of future time adding new preferences and setting keys, which for simple situations should be as simple as adding the control widget to the dialog, and writing a changed hander for the settings key it's bound to. This I think makes up for the fact that I can't show what I'm doing to my girlfriend and make her say "wow that is cool"

jhbuild on windows
I've been using jhbuild for a while to manage building dependencies on Win32. Recently I decided to not leave all of my alterations bitrotting in Launchpad but to merge what I can with the master repo, and maintain the rest in a Gitorious branch or some such. When I say "my alterations" I am talking about mostly things I didn't do of course, I just added some cruft on top of all the stuff John Stowers did. Anyway, it's at the point where with git HEAD and this ugly patch the infrastructure basically works. Only two unit tests fail (or only one in the right build environment). In the next few days I'll push (seperately) some other niceties like a seperate bootstrap moduleset for msys, the infamous binary moduletype, and a hack to make it possible to use MSYS-git. These will go into a seperate branch.

So if you're interested in building GTK+ really, really slowly on a substandard OS this work should be of interest to you. I haven't had many comments about this stuff so far, perhaps because it's a very painful thing to try to do and you have to be a little bit crazy .. I don't know where all this work will end up, I really just want an easy way to build new gstreamer releases for mingw and compile my gtk+ branch, but on win32 there's a lot more for jhbuild to do because the rest of the infrastructure is so bad.

Sorting my life out
Recent days have not seen much productivity because here in England, the clouds seem have gone on holiday for a couple of weeks! Back to work though and I have various things to sort out such as the university revoking my libary card even though I have another year of study left, tax forms for the GSoC money and other time sinks ..
Posted on June 01, 2009 01:51 PM
May292009
May252009
Map Templates Resource Center — Make less ugly maps
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May242009
VIM as Python IDE | Alain M. Lafon
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May212009
-moz-column-width - MDC
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May112009

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Oh noes!

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Oh noes!

I will be out of space on my iPod in no time!

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Posted on May 11, 2009 02:57 PM
May012009
django-sphinx - Google Code
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Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin
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April292009
logGen | freshmeat.net — For obtaining a list of changed files for .mpkg creation
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eurodjangocon
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Jon Atkinson was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1883. He was abandoned as a child and raised by local natives, who also subsequently abandoned him. After nearly starving in the harsh tundra, he discovered a special affinity with nature and began his lifelong quest to destroy civilization.

Isaac Cohen, te plus oculis meis amarem, Isaace iucundissime, munere isto odissem te odio Vatiniano: nam quid feci ego quidue sum locutus, cur me tot male perderes poetis?

Happy, or as you may remember him from his folk singing days, El Sonríe, retired from performing his unique brand of Tex-Mex folk/mariachi/country fusion in 1978. He is now quite active in his local church and has abandoned his corn liquor bootlegging ways.

Jason Scheirer has many faces, but none of them housewife. beginning in the late 1700s, he built a modest publishing empire that eventually, at its peak, incorporated every citizen in the Austro-Hungarian empire as an employee. He lost his fortunes on less-than-shrewd dogfight bets.

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