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If I were designing a house which had quite a narrow front hall, I wouldn’t put the telephone master socket right by the front door, where nobody in their right mind would want to have a telephone, thus rendering it COMPLETELY USELESS.

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Am very tired, and lots of bits of me ache. But I’m in the new house and have unpacked most of the lounge. Hurrah.

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Off we flew to Glasgow for the lovely Kirsten’s birthday. Or rather, off we flew to Glasgow Prestwick, which is to Glasgow as London Luton is to London.

Anyway. After a special Ryanair queueing adventure, where I was sent back and forth from the checkin to the ticket desk twice, ( Read more... )

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The Quicktime plugin keeps crashing Firefox so I finally install that iTunes update I’ve been putting off for ages (largely because Apple’s update software for Windows doesn’t work). There are pending Windows updates, so while I have all the windows closed anyway I reboot to do ( Read more... )

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I get that you want to protect your business from burglars. I get that. I really do.

But if you allow your alarm to wail unattended for OVER AN HOUR when people are trying to sleep, then you should be shot.

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Bane of restfulness!
Slayer of sleepytime!
Truly, thou art a cruel and capricious mistress.

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Change working directory of java code to location of batch file before code is launched, call rt.exec("batchfile.bat"), batch file runs.
Leave working directory alone, call

File dir = new File("C:\\path\\to\\batch\\file");
rt.exec("batchfile.bat", null, dir);

Batch file does not ( Read more... )

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In this particular case, about an hour and a half.

I’m sure there’s a moral in there somewhere, but other than “you apparently need to know more about how the APIs work internally than should be necessary” I can’t seem to find it.

Hey ho. Ever forward.

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Every so often I get a small surge of creativity which enables me to dismantle someone else’s work and twist it to my own nefarious purpose. In the latest of this irregular series, I present: the Bioshock gamercard sig.


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There are no good space-based real time strategy games around these days. And, well, it’s a fairly niche genre, so I suppose it’s understandable. But last week I suddenly had the urge to dig out and re-play Homeworld: Cataclysm, so after much digging through boxes of stuff, I did ( Read more... )