July 2008
48 posts
Blogging. Check. Hot. Check. Sweating. Check. Tired. Check. Bedtime. Check.
Milk was in date and didn’t appear open yet it was off. I wonder if the naughty shop have been keeping it in the outdoors fridge.
Sweating. A lot. After a little jog around the sea front.
Flask retrieved. And there was me looking forward to the controlled explosion.
Just realised i left my flask of tea on the station platform. Bugger.
The thunderstorms at about 8:30 last night were just the warm up act for the main event. Heavy rain, thunder and lightening in early hours.
How Price Comparison Site Results in Google Hurt... →
Good post about price comparison sites appearing in SERPs. I completely agree. Maybe if/when Google implements Digg style voting, we can get rid of them. I wonder if reevoo is perceived as a price…
Opposing Views Launches As A Debate Site Where... →
“Getting average know-nothings to create content for your site is easy enough and well understood by now.” Made me smile, that’s all.
Project from Hell « Project Failures →
Incredible story of a very, very, very bad place to work.
Google Developer Day →
Might be interesting to attend.
bkkeepr | chrisroos →
My bkkeepr page
Tired and in bed but too hot to sleep
Paul Gross's Blog - Capistrano with pairing... →
Using capistrano to keep pairing stations up-to-date and in-sync.
IT Conversations | Supernova | Lada Adamic →
This podcast contains some interesting statistics on whether or not people adhere to the recommendations of their friends. Summary: one recommendation for one thing - good, multi recommendations for…
Disqus Blog » Testing Django Applications →
The Disqus chaps patch the Django TestCase to allow them to start/stop a webserver so that they can reliably run their selenium tests.
Free Our Data: the blog » Blog Archive » Want the... →
Now this is impressive. The Postcode Address file available for use in the Show Us a Better Way competition.
France is very clear across the channel today.
tesseract-ocr - Google Code →
Open source OCR software. Available via MacPorts although I haven’t had chance to try it yet. I want to convert some scanned in letters to text.
OCR - Community Ubuntu Documentation →
I needed to follow step 1 (save the image in greyscale), of Preparing images for Tesseract, for it to recognise the text in the letter I had scanned in.
I appreciate getting a reply from southeasternrailway.co.uk but is it really necessary to send it through the post?
Brain fried
Going for a swim
Home time.
MS08-037: Description of the security update for... →
The Windows Security Update that screws Zone Alarm.
Microsoft Update KB951748 - Workaround to Sudden... →
The fix for the Windows Update / Zone Alarm incompatibility: uninstall the update or turn off your firewall (OK, I’m paraphrasing but it’s still a bit shit).
BUG: Error "Unable to Register MSADO15.TLB" If You... →
The error I’m getting trying to install a very, very old VB application on Windows XP SP 2.
Access To MySQL →
Free utility that converts a Microsoft Access database to MySQL (either a dumpfile or straight into the database). Appeared to work fine on an old Access database I needed to open (I didn’t have a…
Struggling to use something that I’ve had a hand in building. That’s a good sign, right?
Ticket checked by two large(ish) “railway enforcement officers”. That’s new.
Feeds mainly consumed, now off to play some pool.
Inbox processed. I think I’ll leave my 600(ish) unread items in google reader for another time. Off to bed.
In a sunny field eating bacon sandwiches and drinking beer. Life is good.
Watching the band on the tiny festival folly stage, drinking the worst pint of masterbrew ever.
Heading to lounge on the farm. I’ve got a tent but just realised i don’t own a sleeping bag. Hmmm.
No worries. I used tumblr instead.
Anyone know of any alternatives to the broken pastie.org?
My email to southeastern railways
Hi, I wonder if you’d be able to let me know your plans for services between Ramsgate and London when the new high speed trains are introduced? Although there’s been a great deal of speculation about a high speed service between Ramsgate and St Pancras, I’ve never seen anything concrete. Indeed, from what I’ve read so far, I’m guessing that there won’t be a...
Ibrahim Ahmed: Vim: Find and replace text across... →
Using vim to find-and-replace in multiple files.
Show Us a Better Way: Swimming pools en-route →
Someone else wants a map of public swimming pools.
The Thanet Star » Thanet Council and The... →
Matt B looks into the publication of local planning applications on the ukplanning.com website. I’ve offered to write a scraper for planningalerts.com but was a bit more assurance before I did.
Home | Spot.us →
Mentioned by James M. This site aims to arrange funding for sought after investigative journalism by getting people interested in the story to donate money. Nice idea but I’m not sure how popular…
Bookmarklet for the YUI Logger Control » Yahoo!... →
Might contain useful information for using the YUI logger - I’ve never really got round to working out how it works.
Preparing to get very wet
Waiting for @smallcheese at wetherspoons. Oh, and having a cheeky breakfast while i’m at it.
Running late due to major track fail.
Sitting in the pub getting ready to go see jack johnson.
Carectomy.com: Removing Cars from People - All... →
I’m sure this is just one of our many pub proposals to improve train travel
Browser.cache.check doc frequency - MozillaZine... →
“Check for a new version when the page is out of date. (Default)” So this is why our pages aren’t being requested after they’ve been stored in the local browser cache.
June 2008
36 posts
Pluribo Is CliffsNotes For Amazon Reviews →
Maybe one of the future sites they support could be reevoo? Whatever, I think we need some way of concisely expressing our review content for individual products.