Having been to the theatre last night I got in rather late. This meant that getting out of bed this morning was a bit of a challenge, but getting out of bed was well worth it. Really enjoyed the event today and liked the area.
I started well and managed to keep a good consistent pace [...]
On Saturday I went with friends to the theatre to see Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay: A Discworld Murder Mystery dramatised by Stephen Briggs. Rather good it was.
This week is another where I am teaching. This time I am just teaching the practicals, so I am only busy in the afternoons and not all day as last time. Though, at the moment, I have not done that much. There are only two students for this module. On Monday the students were busy [...]
After some recent poor weather it was good to wake up to a sunny morning. I really enjoy running on winter mornings like these. The poor navigation today was displayed to and from the event with a couple of trips round Farnham, as we struggled with the one way system and poor signs.
For the early [...]
How to mount a remote ssh filesystem using sshfs
I stumbled across this a few days ago and set it up on my work machine today. Seems to work very well and cuts out the need for using scp to transfer files back and forward between the machines I use. Mainly posting this here so that [...]
An event in the New Forest, in January, after some recent heavy rain, suggested lots of mud and marsh, but this was not really the case. While the paths were often deep in mud and the marshes wet, if you could avoid both then it was fairly dry and runnable. I decided to do the [...]
Not a great news day for either.
In the US the leading certifier for electronic voting systems was unable to document how it supposedly tested the machines for accuracy and security. It really does not encourage my confidence in having such certified systems used for elections, nor in the results of elections using such systems.
A team [...]
Software patents keep cropping up, as various governments pass laws concerning them and as various others comments on them. If you are after information then a quick search for ’software patents’ gives a reasonable selection of the media articles on and arguments for and against software patents. If you are British and anti software patents, [...]
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