Its coming to that time of year again, when a festival-goer has to consider the prospect of paying Anheuser-Busch or the like upwards of three pounds for the privilege of a cold beer. Since the wall has arrived, the number of vendors of cold beer has declined, allowing the ridiculous prospect of only getting [...]
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The MPAA to sue themselves.
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I’m in Buenos Aires at a Freedom of Expresion Project conference this week. Last night, I went to a fantastic tango show.
Flash photography was not allowed, so I ended up taking these long exposure shots. I think they’re pretty cool.
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I was playing around with random L-systems when I ‘discovered’ this shape. Random L-systems tend to be very, well, random so this symmetric image was quite interesting. The ruleset to produce it was very simple, so I decided to vary the parameters and see what other images would come out. Turns [...]
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Can anyone recommend a decent XML editor. XML is all about the tools, so where are the decent XML editors? At work, people use XML spy but this is non-free and windows only. I’m also surprised I can’t find an eclipse XML editor that is any good – eclipse development requires loads of XML.
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I just did a fresh install of feisty on a new machine and I’m not happy. Lets take a look at two packages, all beginning with fire, both of which are pretty standard for me:
Firefox – this just segfaults from a brand new install. Thanks.
Firehol – this is the best way of writing firewall rules [...]
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…for the apparent attraction of the Metro as it is held in a fellow commuter’s hands. An attraction that disappears completely when the commuter leaves it on the seat and you start reading it.
Still looks like Westminster are doing the right thing and charging them for dumping tonnes of crap on the streets of [...]
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I was having a problem where I would see “Forbidden, perhaps you need to change the file permissions for this document or upload an index page” for every page in the site if I changed the permalink option in the wordpress admin page.
The good folks at A4 suggested putting this in the .htaccess file:
Options -Indexes
Options [...]
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I went to the premier of We’ll Never Meet Childhood Again a few weeks ago. It was showing as part of the Human Rights Watch film festival.
The film follows the plight of Romanian children with AIDS who were abandoned to institutions in the eighties, see the HRW report here. It shows the stories by [...]
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We’re back.
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