Dear Diary
My teen angst bullshit has a body count.
Anyone getting that quote earns a cookie, and no, I haven't killed anyone.

There are times I find C++ to be a deeply annoying language.

I have a class, lets call it A, and within that class definition I have the following:

private:
static QPainterPath *path;Which is to say, I'm declaring a static (class-wide) pointer to a path object; all instances of this class will now have the same shared data member. The path object ( Read more... )

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( This (very geeky thing) )

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STOP VIRGIN MEDIA!The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks" and claimed they're already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don't pay Virgin in the "slow lane", meaning those sites ( Read more... )

As an update to my earlier post here, it seems I may have over-reacted. We spoke to the landlord, who seems willing to accept whatever quote british gas give us for a new boiler. He's also going to drop round a couple of portable radiators on saturday, and has said that if we go and buy one now (up to £30 value), he'll happily refund the cost of it ( Read more... )

Hiya all, we need to sue the living shit out of our landlord, any advice would be greatly appreciated ( Read more... )

A request for help and opinions.

I am in need of new networking gear, and this little device seems to tick all the boxes I could ask for (not least being QoS). However, I've been unable to locate a manufacturer's page for it, and thus have not been able to find support or manuals for it, which I'd ideally want to do before buying ( Read more... )

Well I suppose I should write a post about my new years eve, which was utterly fantastic. I attended Seductive Alchemy, a steampunk masked ball, filled with weird and wonderful people and events. Everyone was dressed fantastically, there were mad scientists, high victorian fashions, sky pirates, fire dancers, industrialists, aliens, rabble-rousers ( Read more... )