November 2011
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My ideal squad(s)
I’ve been putting a little bit of time in with Battlefield 3, and I’ve had some thoughts about what my ideal 4 man squad would be. I’ve actually got a couple of different squads depending on how the opposition is playing.
I also tend to play only objective based game modes (rush & conquest) not TDM, so that has an impact on the setup. It should also go without saying that...
October 2011
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Do not roll your own.
I’m still astounded by how many agencies are still rolling their own CMSs. There is no reason to be doing that in this day and age.
I’ve just read an announcement from a previous agency I worked with, an agency who I setup with an awesome Django stack, that they have released a new version of their own proprietary CMS. Within this announcement they post links to some of the sites...
September 2011
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The Dusty Programmer: Most Pressed Keys and... →
dustyprogrammer:
I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know what keys are pressed…
Lazy man's TV guide.
I hate flipping through TV channels trying to find anything on. I don’t even want something to watch, I simply need background noise. But it still needs to be something which doesn’t annoy me too much.
So what is the solution? A site where I can enter the TV shows I like (or at least don’t hate), which then scans the currently playing TV listings and gives me a short list of...
August 2011
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July 2011
14 posts
Voicemail lawl
As @afocs was recording her voicemail name I shouted MONGATRON. We thought it was funny as it’s only heard by her when she calls her voicemail, not played to anyone else. Never considered that her voicemail might break. And the tech might have to leave test messages and check them.
Last 20 minutes has been spent giggling like school girls every-time the tech called Becky’s...
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I suck at picking fonts. I wish there was a site which could recommend fonts based upon some input. I don’t mean the usual serif/sans/slab type choices, more like:
headline, straight serifs, thin, classy, professional, timeless
and it would spit out the perfect headline font which matches all my requirements, as well as recommending complimentary fonts for other common text (body...
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I hate getting older.
Rugby, scuffles & general rambunctiousness growing up means I’ve broken, fractured, staved or sprained every finger, some fingers all four. Most were fixed by taping it to its nearest neighbour for a couple of days.
The last few days the joints in my right hand have been aching and I’ve been finding it hard to grip things tightly. I wonder if there is a connection…
June 2011
20 posts
Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox... →
wilwheaton:
Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to...
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Watchlukees:
Canadian Olympic Team Rebrand
Loving the Parallax effect on the old photographs
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n Degrees of Philosophy.
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at “Philosophy”
— from xkcd
We’ve been testing it in work, and so far it’s played out just as described. Starting at everything from ‘Chicken’ to ‘Star Wars’, with enough...
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May 2011
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The Markov chains of god.
Take the Bible run it through a Markov chain generator and, well, it actually makes about the same amount of sense….
Then said Jesus unto them, nor serve them, and he brought out the Canaanites to tribute, and did all the evil spirit was to be built no more: and the grove that [is] with him pursued them unto the king, and said, What have they seen in thine house divers measures, both of...
The Don't Be A Dick License →
wilwheaton:
This is a proposed draft of the Don’t Be a Dick license for open source projects. The purpose of this license is to permit the broadest feasible scope for reuse and modification of creative work, restricted only by the requirement that one is not a dick about it.
I’m sure that I had nothing to do with this … but I wish I did.
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Transformation complete
While reading through the Jelly.io examples and trying to decide if it offered anything not already covered by the Test client or Selinium, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the example code looked untidy.
Took me a while to figure out why. The braces. After so long avoiding Python, and fighting against it, purely as I couldn’t see myself using a language without braces, now I find...
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April 2011
24 posts
