#[mango] Added a couple of new iterators - ArrayIterator and SingletonIterator. The SingletonIterator is a brilliant idea, and a blatent steal from Jakarta Commons. It iterates over a single object, thus allowing you to pass it to your algorithms. Cool.

I also whipped up an IntegerSequence generator, so that when I come to do generate algorithms I've got something to play with.
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#[linkfarm] Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 Beta
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#[linkfarm] Security warning draws DMCA threat
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#[linkfarm] On the Wave-Particle Duality of Random Events
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#[linkfarm] Welcome to www.villainsupply.com, your best online source for everything EVIL. If you are a supervillain, mad scientist, warlord, dictator, or despot, then this is the place for you.
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#[linkfarm] Integrating audio with Java applications
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#[linkfarm] Ethical hacker faces war driving charges
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# Test Match Special Webcam - more interesting than the AtticCam (when the cricket's on anyway).
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#[mango] Kal Ahmed has donated a new algorithm called transform. It is similar to forEach, in that it applies a function to members of a sequence. The difference is that forEach discards the return values, while transform gathers the return values into a Collection.
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# In the last ten years, I've only ever worked a handful of Saturdays and most of those were under protest. Working weekends is just not something I do, it's not something we do. I don't generally work in the evenings either although I'll think about things - stewing over a problem, maybe shuffling a bit of code - but on Friday that shutters come down, and they don't go up again until Monday.

In the next six weeks I'm going to double my tally of Saturdays worked. Nat's having a run at finishing her PhD, and the Beancare arrangements mean he'll be with me on Tuesdays. So I'm here in the attic today, making up the time. It still feels wrong though. There's not enough traffic outside so the ambient noise is all wrong. John, Frazer and Kal arn't on messenger. It's the end of the working week, but I didn't take the Bean to nursery this morning.

My clock's all off.

You learn that lesson approximately 10 minutes after your nipper first learns to roll over. Never again can you put them down, wander off, and expect them to still be in the same place when you come back. Little gits! [added 27th Jul 2002]

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# Cracking photo of wildlife at large.
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#[linkfarm] "The parties are advised to chill," said the judge.
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#[linkfarm] Unleashing the Better Programmer Within: OSCON Attendees Get Self-Critical
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#[linkfarm] Is This the Right Room for an Argument?
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#[linkfarm] OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE USE WITHIN UK GOVERNMENT
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#[linkfarm] Four charged in theft of moon rocks
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#[linkfarm] How to Write Like a Pundit
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#[linkfarm] Chefs cook up best baked beans
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#[linkfarm] Shaken or stirred
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#[linkfarm] Fowl play
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#[linkfarm] Using java.lang.reflect.Proxy to Interpose on Java Class Methods
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#[linkfarm] What If Palladium Doesn
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#[linkfarm] Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee
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# Sat down for an hour to eat my tea (a stir-fry made from our alarmingly bounteous broccoli harvest) and watch a bit of no-brain telly before going back to work TV can be good like that - it's mainly about other people who you have nothing to do with. Except tonight, when it wasn't.

We kicked off with Gardener's World. It's harmless, and Rachel De Thame has a winning smile. It was about poeple's favourite gardens, and so as you know off we go to Cornwall. As they were setting the scene, showing you the journey to the garden in question, Nat said they're talking about my Uncle's garden. It turned out she'd never seen it herself, nor was she quite sure where he lived, but she knew it was his. When he was eventually revealed as the man behind it all, it was a little bit of an anticlimax.

At half-past she flicked it over to The Real Country House on Channel4, which was about Capt Bobby Cunningham-Reid, who seemed to be something of a social and political dynamo in the 1920s and 30s. He owned the rather swanky hall in Six Mile Bottom near Newmarket, where we rented a flat while I was working on my first contract job.
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#[linkfarm] Newsagent tells customers to "stop perusing the porn"
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#[linkfarm] Recipe for a Linux 802.11b Home Network
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#[linkfarm] NetBeans: Open IDE, Open Platform, Open Source
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Croo! Croo!
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#[linkfarm] Copyright enforcer Ranger Online caught stealing content
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#[linkfarm] Llamasoft - The Blog
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#[linkfarm] The age of aggressive Linux advocacy is upon us
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#[linkfarm] Windows is a lot more expensive to run than Linux, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally confessed.
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#[linkfarm] Ballmer
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#
jez : I have an W2k uptime of 125days 11hours 56mins!
jez : :o
john : u can't be using it right
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#
It's tricky to see because the Sun is very bright and so everything's a bit over-exposed, but the pond is in the corner of the garden. Right on the left you can see the start of the fence round it (to prevent the Bean and the dogboy hurling themselves in), and in the gap between the two trees you can just make out the blur of a little patch of geraniums.

The ducks haven't visited for a while which is a shame, especially as they used to eat so much of the floating weed. Now I'm having to net it out, then pick through it all to find the tadpoles and tiny frogs. There are hundreds of the little frog blighters. At the moment, they stay pretty close to the pond, although they venture further first thing in morning when the dew is still down. When they get bigger, they all huddle along the base of the wall in the bottom left and leap out at you when you're not looking.

Mine or yours. You can only see about half the garden in this picture, and because the camera's so high up it's actually a lot bigger then it looks. Not mowing the frogs was a problem last year when we only had a handful of them. It's going to be an absolute nightmare this year. [added 16th Jul 2002]

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# For the next few hours, the atticCam is gardenCam

angry_john said Hey, where's the cool wildlife Mr Attenborough ? [added 16th Jul 2002]

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# I have no trousers on.

batty_bee said Can laptop with camera attached not become the frogcam for a day? [added 16th Jul 2002]

Aha! Another reason to buy wireless! Thanks! [added 16th Jul 2002]

smellygit said You'll need a load of Access Points and Pringles cans to cover the fair reaches of the JezUK Ltd Campus! [added 16th Jul 2002]

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# Can't really believe I'm doing this, but I'm thinking about getting the Bean his own computer. At the moment I'm toying with giving him the laptop, and using that as an excuse to get a new one for me. I think the laptop would be better that getting him a big beige box and monitor - it's smaller and quieter, can be easily cleared away, and it's pretty obvious when it's off. When he plays on Nat's machine, he turns the monitor off when he's finished. I've no doubt he'd learn to shut the lid on the laptop in no time, sending it to sleep until he came back later on.

Having kitted him up with the old laptop, I'd obviously have to get myself a shiny new one. Well, kind of. I've never really got the use out of the current one that I was expecting to get, although I did spend many happy hours playing Warcraft and Quake on it while out in Dusseldorf and Nat used it while she was doing some of her PhD work. Perhaps, I tell myself, I'd use it more if it was a bit gruntier. A shiny new one would have more grunt of course, and if I got wireless networking I could work and surf from the lounge.

I've just got to keeping telling myself that until I believe it.

I bought the Scalextric about five years ago - I think he's almost old enough to start having a go. Maybe when those long winter evening start drawing in ...

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#[Arabica] There's a new Expat release. Must try to sync with it soon.
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#[Arabica] Started some work to make building the SAX library a little more straightforward. XMLReader now has a little #ifdef ladder which pulls in the defines parser, and sets SAX::XMLReader as a synonym for it.

For instance, if your code included SAX/wrapper/saxexpat.h, you'd instantiate SAX::expat_wrapper. Now, you can define USE_EXPAT and instantiate SAX::XMLReader. Later if you needed to use MSXML or Xerces (perhaps on a different platform), you'd simply rebuild with USE_MSXML defined instead.

It's still quite earlier and there are undoubtedly flaws in this plan, but I think it's going to help.

It's available from CVS if you want to take a look.
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#[linkfarm] OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading.
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#[linkfarm] Boost Struts with XSLT and XML
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#[linkfarm] The Southampton Portable occam Compiler
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#[linkfarm] Cooking with Python
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#[linkfarm] Fox recommends hacked DVD players for The Simpsons
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#[linkfarm] PGP Outlook plugin has major security hole - comedy
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#[linkfarm] pancake on a stick
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#[linkfarm] OSCOM is an international, not-for-profit organization dedicated to Open Source Content Management.
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#[linkfarm] Sing your own ring tone
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#Meet Colin

Look into his little eyes and feel the calming emptiness of the hamster brain flooding through you, easing away those fears and worries, leaving you relaxed, comfortable, and with a twitching nose.

anonymous said we should discuss syndication - Colin is our mascot

and our NIPR [added 11th Jul 2002]

ColinTheHamster said You can't use my image unless I squeak in consent.

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Colin the Hamsters Executor said Squeak [added 11th Jul 2002]

TheRealColin [w] said Are you the real Colin the Hamster? I don't think so matey! [added 11th Jul 2002]

Lisa [w] said What about for private, personal use? He is ever so calming and would look nice on my desktop. I mean I could actually take a little snooze right nnnn... [added 11th Jul 2002]

The Estate of Colin The Hamster Enterprises Inc. [w] said The closest we can get to a picture of the ORIGINAL Colin is ... [added 11th Jul 2002]

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# Nat cleaned the attic while I was out at a client's office yesterday. It's tidier, brighter, less smelly and almost exactly wrong.

smellygit said No doubt you can re-odour it in no time [added 10th Jul 2002]

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#
Yay!

angry_john said Top stuff ! Not much of a meal tho ' [added 5th Jul 2002]

If you're really hungry, you can have a whole handful. [added 10th Jul 2002]

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#[linkfarm] “Sabbatum” is a tribute album like no other – 12 Black Sabbath classic songs played by early music band Rondellus and sung in Latin
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# An increasingly bad day - Install! Install YOU BASTARD! You worked yesterday...please...I'm begging you
Remember - You are not a journalist on a national newspaper and so will not be helped out by Microsoft UK. Repeat after me - Back up your data regularly. Back up your data regularly. Back up your data regularly. Back up your data regularly. Back up your data regularly. Back up your data regularly. Back up your data regularly. Good. Now go and back up your data.

Ben Hammersley [e] [w] said :-) I did - but when the whole OS fails to boot, it's not much use. Still: all they did was send me a new copy of XP to load on the thing. Buggered if I could find the original. [added 16th Jul 2002]

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#[linkfarm] Rotor Comes to Linux
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#

To: jez@jezuk.demon.co.uk
From: Los Angeles Film School 
Subject: Mixer for Filmmakers
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:33:00 -0700

You are invited to the launch of the Los Angeles Film School's second
Feature Film Development Program. Attend a mixer for independent
screenwriters, directors, and producers, and meet our current filmmakers
about to go into production. 

The mixer will be held at the Los Angeles Film School, 6363 Sunset Blvd
(just west of Vine), Tuesday, July 2, 7:00pm 

Actually, I think I'm doing something else this evening, but thanks so much for the offer.
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