Monthly Archives: May 2005
To Use The Internet You Must Be At Least This Smart
So I keep seeing this particularly amusing advert cropping up on a lot of the geekier websites that I read. I would hold that the advert itself is a pretty reliable IQ test. It can safely be asuumed that those … Continue reading
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Firefox Extensions
How I have managed to survive the long without availing myself of firefox extensions is clearly a problem that will tax historians in the years to come. In this vein I present a quick list of the extensions that I … Continue reading
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BtPodder Updated
After putting it off for quite some time I've finally updated btpodder.py to work against BitTorrent version 4. So you no longer have to use an old-fashioned version of BitTorrent to get bashpodder to supoort bittorrent downloads. The new btpodder. … Continue reading
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New version of Bashpodder
Ooh, lots of bug-fixes in this release. As the number of feeds I'm subscribed to has increased so have the number of weird RSS parsing bugs. Slacker Astronomy put line-feeds in their enclosures, which is legal but unexpected. Anyway the … Continue reading
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Bank Holiday
Spent a rainy weekend back home in Manchester. Meanwile it was lovely and sunny down in London. Bugger. Anyway, my parents and I took the opportunity to go and visit the museum of the Northern Mill Engine Society. I don’t … Continue reading
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