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I've been using Google Reader recently, following the lamented death of Planet Fleck, and I suppose I have to admit its better.
Here are some "shared items" if, for some reason, you want to read what I read.
misc:
Category: misc
We're having a cold snap. About -2 oC, and very still. Possible snow later. Punt touts are still out though. Ducks don't care. I've never known what this means. Refs * Flickr...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:07 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Well, it has finally happened - I've decided to make a place to keep all the comments I don't publish because they are noise, stupid, or whatever. And I'll take the opportunity to add here all the ones I feel...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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And probably my all-time favourite, though this version isn't quite right:...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:22 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I don't think I've troubled you with a picture of me for a while, so here is one I particularly like, taken with Miriam's Galaxy S2 (rush out and buy one now, its got our GPS in it, which...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:05 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Pony - something that the customer wants, and which might even make sense, but isn't going to get done within your timescales. Might get done later. Unicorn - Like a pony, but doesn't actually make sense, so will never...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:04 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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That is (left to right) Miranda, Daniel and me. Daniel wouldn't let me take him giving Miranda a piggyback. Just up the hill from the Barton rifle range, looking out over Cambridge (not in shot). It has been a...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I could (possibly) work this out myself, but I'll try you lot instead: anyone know how to combine two GPS tracks onto one map? I mean tracks as stored on Garmin's website, and displayed like http://connect.garmin.com/activity/127111491. Specifically, I'd like to...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Steve [*] Schneier (security expert and tee-shirt provider to the cognoscenti) has a post in which he pokes at the massive costs of counter-terrorism, apparently out of all proportion to the threat. However, he has a bizarrely wrong calculation: I...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:28 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Where are we? There is an interesting story to it. Note that you can trivially find the answer by clicking on the pic for its name, so don't do that if you want to play the game. [Update: your...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:41 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Every now and again I'm surprised by the contrast between the sanity that you'll find on good blogs, and the madness that reigns in our useless press. In this case, its dead children again which is very sad, but should...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:19 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks