Archive: 2006-10
My name in print
I just received my complimentary copy of the newly-published second edition of The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton today.
IE7 goes gold, still sucks
I thought I’d better see what the new version of Internet Explorer did to my site layout, so I loaded up an evaluation version of Windows Server 2003 in a trial version of Parallels Desktop for Mac and installed IE7.
How many seconds?
How many seconds are there in a minute? If you said 60, you’re wrong. Some minutes have 61, although the so-called leap second only comes around every few years, and then only once a year at most.
Sony: we’re protecting customers from our unsafe products
OK, that’s not literally what they said.
Was für ein comment ist that?
I love the mixed-up language in this comment from the source code of the acts_as_ferret search plugin for Ruby on Rails:
Headscarf ban
I walked on water
After seeing references to Michael Cross’s ‘Bridge’ installation linked all over the web, and discovering that it was just round the corner from my flat, I had to go and see it—and try it out myself!
Reader annoyed in city confusion
The BBC’s England news feed drives me mad. Why? Have a look at these recent headlines:
Ruby heresy
Someone on the ruby-talk mailing list asked why you can't add strings and numbers without conversion as in Perl and PHP. Now, behaving like PHP is rarely a good thing, but Ruby can be made to do it in this case:
Technika DAB radio
If you want a cheap DAB radio, you could do worse than this Technika DAB-106 from Tesco. (Technika appears to be Tesco’s own brand for Far East-sourced electronics.)
A glimpse of daylight
Good news! Microsoft is going to flip the kill switch on versions of the OS that aren’t—or, more importantly don’t appear to be—properly licensed. Given how well WGA doesn’t work, I’m sure that this will lead to a lot of inconvenienced users.
Who’s number one?
Ghetto Tyvek
I remembered reading about how you can make a sort of Tyvek-like fabric by ironing together polyethylene shopping bags, and decided on a whim to try it out this evening.
The Amazing Mr Jalloh
My junk mail usually consists of flyers for pizza delivery or take-away curry houses, so the following made an interesting change.
