November 2008
37 posts
At Empire Leicester Square, London for a preview of Disney’s Bolt. In 3D. Talking animals, loads of kids. It’s going to be a blast.
Dinner at SeaFish. French woman, “What’s a chip roll?” Englishman, “It’s like bread with chips in.” French woman, “I don’t understand.”
is now the proud owner of a Canon EOS 1000d. My First DSLR. It’s light and feature packed. Reading Sontag.
Grab data between two line numbers from a huge file. And quickly. sed -n ‘7051458,22851106p’ largefile.txt > smallerfile.txt
Campaign Monitor Blog →
When scripting an import of 30,000 objects into a Django app on your local machine, make sure settings.DEBUG = False. Memory thanks you.
I support BBC Radio 3’s “complete works” emphasis for classical music but Classic FM’s Smooth Classics are often just the tonic.
Playing Wii Sports with mum and dad. It’s hilarious but also amazing how instinctively they pick it up.
Turned out to be a lovely day. In my favourite London pub, the Cutty Sark. Great views over docklands. Fine pint of Broadside.
Wow! It’s snowing!
Getting to grips with testing enterprise CMS systems. Any suggestions?
Made lentil and cauliflower curry with brown rice. Wholesome and spicy nicey.
Suffering from mild Wii shoulder.
Thanks guys for the greetings! It’s pizza time here. @simonrjones @edwardcasbon @dimitrivh
30 today! I have a Wii! And champagne.
Was treated to a special lunch at Locanda Locatelli - am really very full. Splendid food and company.
Really warm today. A couple of blustery weeks have seen most of the leaves fall.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is astonishing as usual. Go see at the NHM in Old London Town http://is.gd/7tH6
Self-closed tags like <div /> freak out all browsers. FireFox reads it only as an open tag. Come on folks, it’s just XML!
New Classical Guitar Music →
Shopping more frequently at Lidl. Their own brand cereal is Credit Crunch.
Rubbish lunch hour. Supermarket closed. Other shops nothing but fat meat sandwiches. I’m disproportionately annoyed.
Must be back home in London. Stood in the middle of the road, on a zebra crossing, apparently invisible.
On the train back home, it’s been a blustery, cold but bright day in Edinburgh. Saw National Galleries including Gerhard Richter exhibit.
Lothian Buses on a Sunday are right on time.
Having a pint of Deuchars IPA in The Steading following an invigorating tramp over the Pentland Hills.
A buzzard’s searching cry rings out around Caerketton hill and the clouds come in.
Descending Allermuir Hill.
On the train to Edinburgh, styling my new blog, which I really should have done a long time ago. nxec wi-fi is creaky but it’s free!
Future Makers - How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer →
This looks like a cracking program about network theory. Heard it trailed on the Science Show.
About Me
I am a British web developer based in London, England. I’ve been working for the Victoria & Albert museum since March 2008. Here, I am designing and developing new web applications whilst maintaining and improving existing architecture.
I work with Python/Django but I have also made money with PHP and Perl.
I have years of experience in getting the best out of MySQL - ask me about...
What the devil’s going on here? Am I supposed to be interested in pulchritudinous robots? http://w3.svedka.com/widget/widget.html
I take so much for granted as a Mac user. Just want to preview some Canon photos taken as RAW on mum’s Vista PC. Now looking for driver.