Whilst chatting on the #minecraft channel on freenode, somebody comes out with:
<Dinnerbone> I love that 50% of thursdays are odd-numbered days <Dinnerbone> Makes the near-end-of-week that much more interesting
Which got me thinking... Are 50% of Thursdays on odd-numbered days? Probably not, at least not in every year. Some ...
Read more...Today I helped somebody in the Python IRC channel with a question about combining required, optional and multi-value positional arguments in Python's argparse module. This is actually pretty easy to do, but not immediately obvious, so here's the example I put together. I took hints from the first ...
Read more...I've recently moved back to using irssi as my IRC client, because when combined with GNU screen it can be kept independent of a graphical session, or even better, of a particular client machine (if you have a server somewhere). Since I have a home fileserver at the moment ...
Read more...A dominating story in the news recently has been that of UK Members of Parliament "abusing" the expenses system. As part of this, expense claims data has been released to the public, but unsurprisingly not in a simple CSV format that just anybody can play with. All I could find ...
Read more...For ergonomic reasons (discussed previously) I like a side button on my mouse to act as a middle button instead. Unfortunately there still doesn't seem to be an "easy" way to remap mouse buttons in Linux, and what's more the method of changing such settings seems to keep ...
Read more...When re-theming DokuWiki to fit in with the general look-and-feel of my blog, I thought it would look good to have buttons with images relevant to what they did. Having created the necessary, CSS, I subjected it to my multi-browser test bed (actually a Windows XP virtual machine with the ...
Read more...Continuing the trend of accidentally disabling hacks that people rely on, it now no longer appears to be possible to set your network card's MAC by adding a line like the following to /etc/rc.local:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:0C:xx:xx:xx:xx
It seems that ...
Read more...Today is my first day of Firefox usage after a three-week break - a break which taught me something...
First, a little background. I've been using Firefox since 0.9, and generally its always been the best browser for me. However, recently I lost my taste for it due to ...
Read more...A recent Lifehacker story about a Greasemonkey script to remove quiz stuff from Facebook made me realise something: you know your site is too "web 2.0" when users are going out of their way to remove features. A quick search on Userscripts.org reveals that a substantial proportion of ...
Read more...While developing CodeScape Framework I came up with a simple template engine that instead of implementing it's own language just provided some structure-related hooks, and I've now got around to separating out and releasing Tpl, a simple, self-contained, hierarchical template engine for PHP.
Tpl's role is centred ...
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