Oldey Timey Mickey

(November 28, 2011)

I don’t think he eats worms any more.

Reuse Before Recycle

(November 25, 2011)

I got a package from Amazon today — delivered in a mail bag.  Which isn’t unusual.  This is, though: But a veteran of what?

More Further Legal Proceedings

(November 22, 2011)

As you recall from the first episode of this series, I received several kilos of paperwork from India about…  something.  The gist of it was — somebody had allegedly committed libel against somebody else, and they had put a law firm onto the case. The law firm got it all firmly in hand, but neglected … Continue reading More Further Legal Proceedings

More Legal Proceedings

(November 21, 2011)

My boss got the letter below today.  As I don’t speak French, I’m not totally sure what it’s asking me to do, but I’ll assume that it wants me to remove the links in question. The fascinating thing about this very geniune-looking (ahem) official letter is that it doesn’t mention who’s sending it.  Who is … Continue reading More Legal Proceedings

Music Distribution

(November 12, 2011)

The main issue when I moved to the new flat, oh, three-ish years ago? I think, was how to listen to music. I want to be able to walk between rooms, listening to the same music.  This means that there has to be some kind of way to distribute music between the rooms. I looked … Continue reading Music Distribution

Lars Animal Rescue

(November 11, 2011)

Bird When I came home today, I found a magpie (Pica Pica) sitting on top of my outlet box.  That’s on the fourth floor, so it had flown up the stairs.  Confused bird. Anyway, I thought could just open the window and let it fly out, but it flew on up to the top floor … Continue reading Lars Animal Rescue

Emacs Light Switches

(November 11, 2011)

Tellstick Duo Telldus launched a new version of their nifty USB-based “home automation” thingy a couple of months ago.  It’s mostly the same as the last version, but this one can receive signals as well as send signals. This means that you can buy stuff like this switch, glue it onto a wall somewhere, and … Continue reading Emacs Light Switches

Will This Do?

(November 9, 2011)

I was reading an MC Siegler post linked to from HackerNews, where he rants about the iOS Gmail client and Google products in general: And all of this is the M.O. of pretty much all Google iOS apps. They’re half-ass, buggy, and generally ugly to boot. The obvious retort is “yeah, and Apple never released … Continue reading Will This Do?

flac123 tweaks

(November 8, 2011)

I’ve altered flac123 slightly to allow setting the output buffer size, as well as cleaning up the STDOUT/STDERR interaction and put it on github.  Not extremely exciting. So here’s a picture of a bowl: Bowl

Artifacts

(November 7, 2011)

Cartridge

(November 1, 2011)

Gem I bought a new pick-up for the record player (I know, how au courant) today.  They didn’t have the one I wanted so I bought this one instead.  Look at the pretty packaging!