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Insomnia,
I haven't slept much this evening, and found myself wondering when it was last possible for one person to read all of "the internet". Naturally I discount personal emails from that collection of data ( Read more... ) -
Not Because they easy, but because they are hard.
I'm two hours into a bout of insomnia.
About a decade ago someone tried to upstage my father, the details aren't important, and in the end they ended up with rather a lot of egg on their face. Amongst it all was a comment that they worked for a major charity, and were so good at their job with that charity that they had been round the world first ( Read more... ) -
I had an email from livejournal muttering about dormant accounts.
Well I aint dead yet! -
A professional courtesy.
Recently I switched clients, this is a routine phase of contracting, but, ye gods, the standard of agents has plummeted somewhat.
( Where do these people come from? ) -
Marching On
In the late 90s CCD sensors, used in "cheap" video cameras got smarter, some of them were able to output a composite formatted signal straight off the chip, rather than needing a load of control, frame buffering, and modulation circuitry off chip ( Read more... ) -
Consumerism,
I spent some time this afternoon browsing through sparkfun for interesting components, there may be some that I'd be interested in. I'm also wondering why they bother listing parts like the 4052, it's a standard logic part and easy enough to get from more mundane suppliers, I'm more interested in the odd ICs that are normally a total nightmare to ( Read more... ) -
Enjoying life,
I had two major gripes about my room in Cambridge Girton.
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Small steps,
I have for a while been working on an embedded operating system in my spare time.
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On homeopathy...
In discussions of homoeopathy, most counter arguments are based on the observation that the supposed concentrations involved in homoeopathy are meaninglessly low.
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Books that I've read in 2010.
(Note, I'm not including most technical literature, If I did I'd have to include a shelf of o'reily books and some A level core texts!)
The first three are minor cheats, I started reading them in the last few weeks of 2009.
Atomised, by Michel Houellebeca
Despite tearing into this book at a ferocious lick, I have to say I found the final third of the ( Read more... )