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This has bugged be in the past and recently been bugging me since switching from archlinux to crunchbang.  When doing the crunchbang install (keeping my existing /home directory) I used a different...

For some strange reason I decided to have a play with the pylons framework this weekend. Seen as I’ve been playing with django recently I thought it would be cool to see how a different python framework...

So the other week I see that the maintainer of my favourite twitter client, witter, on the N900 has bricked his N900 and moved to Android.  As such isn't going to be continuing with the development...

So I've been busy the last month or so.  Been pretty much working 7 days a week.  So what have I actually been doing, well I've done some freelance work in my spare time, all good fun.  Back to working...

I decided to upgrade my machine to Ubuntu 10.10 today.  The upgrade seemed to go well. Then not long after logging in the machine crashed. Ooops. Now I had this happen not a week ago because of the...

via go.theregister.com Oh yeah Duke Nukem Forever! get in, yet another reason to get a new PC

XKCD's Online Communities map, part 2 - the online world, visualized with loads of funny Cory Doctorow at 11:31 PM Tuesday, Oct 5, 2010 Randall "XKCD" Munroe has updated his legendary...

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Now you, too, can quit like JetBlue guy: The SlipQuit™ Xeni Jardin at 10:06 PM Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010 Includes two cans of beer and one self-inflating slide. The SlipQuit™, by dialhouse...

I’ve recently had to write a function that needed to use recursion. Now I got tripped up writing the function. So for my own records and in case someone else makes the same mistake I’m documenting...

So I'd set myself the task of keeping a blog this year, I wanted to make an attempt a engaging online some more and having a repository of thoughts, tips and tricks.  Unfortunately this kind a fell...

So I've had a Nokia N900 for a few months now.  One of the big reasons I got it was that you can write apps in python.  Now this was a big selling point for me.  Now after a few months inactivity I...