It is amazing, but the least funny thing in Garfield is the big orange cat. Some of the comics, without the cat, and really funny.

http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/

Of course, not xkcd funny, but Dilbert on a bad day kind of funny.

Computers are increasingly getting picky about the passwords people use. Earlier I spent 10 minutes trying to change both my undergraduate computer science and computer service accounts so a friend could access them, who has now graduated (I have since put the passwords back to their normal password values). I wanted to change both passwords to " ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I bought an audio splitter from Curry's. It's a little electrical thingy that plugs into an audio socket, and gives two audio sockets. Not very complex, only really electrical in the sense that it is made of something that conducts electricity, but very useful all the same. While I think the technical "wizardry" probably ( Read more... )

I demonstrate for the ADS course in Computer Science. It's basically a simple introduction to programming, using the Ada language (not one of my favourites). Students ask me questions, which I have to answer, but often they forget to include the question, or only place it at the very end of a rambling overview of their code. A typical interaction ( Read more... )

On Sunday, I was sat in the Charles, playing Jenga, with three others. We completed the game. We reached a state where all rows had either only one block in the middle, or two on either side, apart from the very top row. We weren't playing cooperatively, and the tower was rickety as hell, but it did stand up until the end. I've never accomplished ( Read more... )

I realised I haven't posted here for ages. Today I was going back through my old stuff, looking for my post about XSL and Haskell, and realised that I actually kinda enjoyed writing about my life, and it was actually kinda fun to read back through. So, that means I probably should do it some more ( Read more... )

James Blunt annoys me. A lot.

However, watching this video made me like him. If you haven't seen this video of him singing Triangle, then you should do.

But alas he was on T4 yesterday, singing his songs, and annoyed me once more.

Very funny: http://xkcd.com/c276.html

While I was reading this, I was also writing a parser, and had just decided that instead of using OpenBracket/CloseBracket, I would use OpenBracket/ShutBracket, so the text lined up.

Googling for "Neil Mitchell" on Google.com with personal search turned off and signed out of all accounts, http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=neil+mitchell - I have 7 out of the top 10 places ( Read more... )

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