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Got my Labtec webcam working with the Mac using Macam, nice open source app. http://twurl.nl/7cmegv 4 hours, 19 minutes ago

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Saturday, 5 July 2008
Got my Labtec webcam working with the Mac using Macam, nice open source app. http://twurl.nl/7cmegv

By voidspace 4 hours, 19 minutes ago. Add Comment
Need a good diagramming program for the Mac. InkScape doesn't seem to work - trying NeoOffice Draw (Open Office).

By voidspace 5 hours, 48 minutes ago. Add Comment
Got a large mkv file that neither Quick Time nor VLC can play (on the Mac). MPlayer works ok though.

By voidspace 7 hours, 42 minutes ago. Add Comment
What's the worst thing a racist can call an African American? Neighbour...

By voidspace 8 hours, 26 minutes ago. Add Comment
Star Cops, Yes Minister, MASH or Moonlighting? An orgy of TV classics.

By voidspace 10 hours, 18 minutes ago. Add Comment
End of Deadwood Season 3 is most dissatisfying.

By voidspace 10 hours, 21 minutes ago. Add Comment
Sad that I won't be at Europython.

By voidspace 10 hours, 34 minutes ago. Add Comment
Emailed my MEPs about the awful and disastrous proposed internet restrictions in the European Telecoms package. http://twurl.nl/seeztt

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Friday, 4 July 2008
Glyph: "You have to write unit tests anyway, and static typing makes unit testing harder. " advocates static typing! http://twurl.nl/v05u6e

By voidspace 1 day, 6 hours ago. Add Comment
Glyph of Twisted fame on: "You have to write unit tests anyway, and static typing makes unit testing harder. "

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Neat collection of free (legal) online techie books. Includes SICP, Practical Common Lisp, the Django book... http://twurl.nl/hyc18m

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Thursday, 3 July 2008
I need my own wiki for tracking ideas.

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Flipping email smtp server is down. Annoying. Might switch to using the Webfaction one.

By voidspace 2 days, 4 hours ago. Add Comment
Had permission from @_why to steal the nice looking Javascript (etc) from his 'Try Ruby' online tutorial for my 'Try Python'.

By voidspace 2 days, 8 hours ago. Add Comment
Just joined identi.ca, a new 'open' Twitter clone. Wonder if I will use it, might try getting 'Tweeter' (Dabo Twitter client) to support it.

By voidspace 2 days, 13 hours ago. Add Comment
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
New release of Wing, the Python IDE - 3.1.2. Lots of bugfixes in this one. http://twurl.nl/pz2w6z

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New release of Resolver One coming in the next couple of days. Only a minor bugfix release though. Still a few weeks until the big update.

By voidspace 4 days, 8 hours ago. Add Comment
Ahhh... rogue (and invisible) whitespace really screws up the layout of tables in Word.

By voidspace 4 days, 15 hours ago. Add Comment
Trying to work with tables in Word is always an infuriating experience.

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Monday, 30 June 2008
My loony bun is fine Benny Lava! This is the craziest English translation of Bollywood madness. Absolutely hilarious. http://twurl.nl/z2pj0u

By voidspace 5 days, 3 hours ago. Add Comment
In the DLR all the good stuff happens in the Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting namespace. Guess which one is missing from the CHM documentation?..

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French court bans (and fines) ebay from selling *legitimate* perfumes to protect manufacturers monopoly. http://twurl.nl/frsjvv

By voidspace 5 days, 4 hours ago. Add Comment
French bans (and fines) ebay from selling *legitimate* perfumes to protect manufacturers monopoly. http://twurl.nl/frsjvv

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Installing Mac OS X 10.5.4...

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Northampton water infected with Cryptosporidium parasite. We have to boil water. Superman is staying out of the area. http://twurl.nl/q0ppj2

By voidspace 5 days, 4 hours ago. Add Comment
10 anti-terrorist patents. Includes airplane trapdoor + truck with machine gun turret (also useful against zombies). http://twurl.nl/egcras

By voidspace 5 days, 13 hours ago. Add Comment
Leeds University now teaches Python instead of Java to 1st year computer science students. Come to PyCon UK to hear about the success.

By voidspace 5 days, 14 hours ago. Add Comment
Japanese cigarette vending machines with age verification cameras can b fooled by a magazine picture of older person. http://twurl.nl/q5xh7i

By voidspace 5 days, 18 hours ago. Add Comment
iptables can block tcp packet resets commonly used for bittorrent throttling. Cool! http://twurl.nl/hb1834

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Sunday, 29 June 2008
Most recent post on all four of Resolver Systems support forums is mine, as are 20% of all posts. :-) http://twurl.nl/kz5zkq

By voidspace 6 days, 3 hours ago. Add Comment

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