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Dreams
Dreams are funny things. Some we remember, some we forget, some we actualise and some we let slip through our fingers. Some dreams mean more to us than others, some dreams we share, some dreams we keep quiet secretly hoping for them to come true. Some dreams tiptoe quietly past and sit silent until we…
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Poppy Day
(Originally posted 11th November 2008) Today was poppy day. I’m supprised the kids at work actually honoured the two minute silence. My thoughts were very much with my Popa and my Great Uncle who took part in D-Day who were spared the Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori and lived a good long life…
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CAP
I’m in the throws of writing a little two part application for work that allows users to see what computers are avaiable for work and allows us, the administrators to see who is and more importantly who was logged on when and where. The technical details of proposed implementation can be found here. The client…
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Virtualisation and Gaming
For those of you that don’t know I use Ubuntu as my main operating system; at home, at work and on my laptop. I still however have applications, mostly games, that I still have to keep a windows install handy for. At the moment at home I dual boot between windows vista and Ubuntu Intrepid…
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Time
I’m laying here in bed contemplating time. How something can come out of nothing, into existence and then leave as quickly as it came. How we can learn from the past mistakes of others and ourselves to change the present to alter the course of the future. It’s totally fascinating. The more you think about…
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Cobweb 2
I’m thinking about rewriting (read: recoding) my dissertation project as a sideline programming project. The final version of Cobweb that I coded for my dissertation was okay, but it didn’t work particularly well. I think with some refinement and some decent HCI analysis for the frontend Cobweb could become a handy service orientated collaboration tool.…
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Sorting Traffic
When driving, I let other traffic in; usually only cars that are newer than mine. This got me thinking – what if it was made law that you had to give way if a newer car was waiting? People with OCD everywhere would rejoice knowing that slowly but surely the roads are transforming into some…