A couple of weeks ago I moved this blog from its old home on a Windows-based virtual server at EasyCGI to a dedicated Linux server running as a “micro instance” on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Herein some notes on the move. Overall I’m pretty happy with the move. The EasyCGI hosting was cheap [...]
Some time ago, while explaining the concept of virtual memory to a work colleague, I remembered something I’d seen about twenty years earlier… Between July 1988 and September 1989 I worked at an IBM research lab in Winchester, Hampshire. This was the industrial placement part of my four-year computer science degree. I was about 20 at [...]
1. Don’t use batch files. Really. 2. If it doesn’t work then rem-out the @echo off at the start of the batch file. 3. Nurofen.
This has been driving me mad for the past couple of days, and I wanted to give the solution a little Google-juice in case someone else encounters the same problem. If you’re trying to install the 64 bit version of itunes on the 64 bit version of Windows 7 and you’re finding that the installer [...]
below is a copy of my letter to the First Minister of Scotland regarding the environmental destruction about the be wrought by the upgrade to the Beauly-Denny power transmission line. For context on this see here and here and here and here and here. –=o=– [My address removed] 9th November 2009 Rt. Hon. Alex Salmond [...]
There has been a lot of debate over the last few weeks about the BBC’s decision to allow the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, to appear on the Question Time programme. I wanted to set-out some of my thoughts on this. To be clear: I hate and dispise the BNP. It is [...]
Him: Daddy. My brain knows the answer to every question! Me: (Thinks) Ok. Is it possible to factor any number in linear time? Him: (Without stopping to think) Yes! Me: How? Him: … I don’t know… Me: Ah. Well… Which painting is better – the Raft of the Medusa or the Mona Lisa? Him: The [...]
I love it when this thing forces me to think. The blog post that would have been here – about the economy no less – is sitting safely in the drafts folder until I figure-out a way to express my opinion on that subject without it being full of logical holes and arguments that are [...]
This is a test of posting a blog entry from my G1 using Postbot.
