Artemis Fowl & other books
Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl : The Arctic Incident and Artemis Fowl : The Eternity Code - a trilogy worth reading. These stories are full of fairies, goblins, and other races, together with a “Mud Boy” named Artemis Fowl.
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Template Toolkit (pt 2)
Having had a chance to read through most of the new Template Toolkit book from O’Reilly, I have to admit that it’s far more impressive than I first realised. Extra plugins and filters can be written and added into the basic templating system to provide extra …
Weird stuff
Tom sent me a really weird link tonight. You thought installing RedHat Linux was easy? Try Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (note: no badgers were harmed in the making of this blog entry)
Template Toolkit
It’s just typical. I wait a couple of months for the new Template Toolkit book from O’Reilly to appear on Safari (the online bookshelf) and then when I give in and buy the paper copy it appears on Safari a few days later. I don’t know what the book is like yet …
Books, books and more books
We visited Leicester the other week on the way back from a daytrip to London and found a bookshop called Borders had sprung up in one of the out-of-town shopping centres. We didn’t get to stay there too long last time as it was getting late and having driven to and from …
Recommended watching
If you like Drama, and Action, I can highly recommend the following shows: CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) CSI: Miami Spooks from the BBC Links are courtesy of TV Tome
SETI update
Well, I’m now up into the top 1% of users in terms of work units for SETI@home - rank is 46,744 out of 4.8 million users. Why do I do it? I don’t really know - I used to run the distributed.net RC5 client but once the contest was over, figured I might as well use …
I'm a Switcher
Ok, I’ve finally switched. Now I’ve had the chance to use MacOSX I’m quite enjoying it. There’s all the power of unix but also the pretty GUI stuff that I’ve grown used to using Windows as a desktop.
So much for snow
Well, despite my blog entry at the end of December, the snow didn’t really settle. It was quite disappointing. One of my New Years resolutions is to blog more often.. given the months between entries last year, that shouldn’t be too hard.
It's snowing!
Finally, after days of waiting, it’s decided to snow. Unfortunately although the flakes are big ones it’s not settling on the ground because it was raining this morning too. It’s still snowing though so there’s hope yet!