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Sunday 31 December, 2006
# Well, that's that then.
Gevs said Happy new year!! [added 1st Jan 2007]

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Saturday 30 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Generating a single, globally unique ID - One that's XML-compliant and not too long.
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Thursday 28 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Unobtrustive OpenID
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#[linkfarm] OpenID screencast
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#[linkfarm] How to turn your blog in to an OpenID
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Monday 25 December, 2006
#Happy Christmas Chums
 As you were. Be about your business.
John H [e] said Aha! There you are on the attic cam. Pretending to work but probably playing some game or generally messing around.

Merry Christmas yourself, and a charming New Year. [added 27th Dec 2006]


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Saturday 23 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Generic Algorithms for Java
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Friday 22 December, 2006
#[Arabica]XSLT: Template matches

Just committed some changes to take me another step closer to calculating template match priorities. I'm really quite pleased with how I wiggled through that one :)

Once this is finished, I hope to be able to cut an initial release early in the new year. That would be super.


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Wednesday 20 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Create cross browser vector graphics
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Monday 18 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Ugandans grab 'pig-for-name' deal - Hornsleth, who on his website sometimes spells his name Horn$leth, says the scheme, offering villagers of Buteyongera aid in the form of a pig or goat if they take on his name, is a commentary on the hypocrisies of society. Well yes, but is it art?
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Friday 15 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Geek Mafia - Well, fact is, I’d rather you read the book than not, so if you don’t want to pay, then fine. Here. Have it for FREE.
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#[linkfarm] We Subject Today's Kids to Yesterday's Classic Games - Defender - If I was in it, I'd be like, "OK, aliens, if you give me 500 dollars you can destroy this planet." Surely this is convincing proof of falling educational standards
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Thursday 14 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Developing Java Software reviewed M'colleague Russel's book gets reviewed on Slashdot. Hilarity ensues. Some of the 100+ comments are even about the book. Result!
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#[Arabica]DOM: TreeWalker

Something I started but never finished years ago was DOM Traversal. I wrote a load of header files, then never did anything else. Never even looked at it. Never even thought about it, nor used an implementation in another language. Looks like I was a bit silly though, because I've had a TreeWalker implementation donated by a chap called craigp. I wrote a few basic tests for it, and it actually looks rather good. I can think of several places over the past few years were it would have been jolly useful.

In short - if you're walking a DOM, have a look at TreeWalker.


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#[linkfarm] The Ripper Files. part 2 - on which wee Hayley Campbell, age 7, catalogued, with one or two digressions along the road, all the ways of dying Hilariously reassuring about your own kids
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#[linkfarm] Hayabusa vs TAKA Michinoku from November 96, part one and two. Terrific 2nd half spot-fest - watch for TAKA's breathtaking top-rope moonsault and Hayabusa's full pelt suicide dive. Top.
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Wednesday 13 December, 2006
#[Arabica]Mingw MSYS builds

Spent a little while playing with Mingw's MSYS, which I'd not heard of before and which turns out to be rather cool. Committed some configure patchs so that Arabica builds on it properly.


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#[linkfarm] RAW Data - Musings from Robert Anton Wilson FNORD
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Monday 11 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Ultimo Dragon part 1 and part 2 - 1993, Tokyo Dome
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#[linkfarm] Kirsten Hirsch playing at The Glee Club, 4th March 2007

   * smellygit said I saw the Throwing Muses at Edwards years ago, is that the place that burnt down recently? [added 11th Dec 2006]

It is the place, although it's not where I'd expect a band like Throwing Muses to be playing. Eee, things wert differnt in them days ... [added 11th Dec 2006]

   * John H [e] said As a young rocker from the Black Country I misspent many a Saturday night at Edwards No. 8 (as it was then known). Leather, mullets and spandex were de rigeuer - Throwing Muses, not a once. The fire was like the final nail in my overly prolonged youth. [added 12th Dec 2006]

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#[linkfarm] Long the fixation of physicists worldwide, a tiny particle is found I had dinner with a physicist on Friday night. I asked him if he was the slightest bit excited about this. He said he was more interested in how cellos worked. I suggested that maybe we could smash a few cellos together to see if tiny sub-violins came flying out of the splintery wooden impact. Disappointingly, he declined.
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Sunday 10 December, 2006
# Note to self: running socks, wellies

Do not forget!
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Friday 08 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Mutoh Keiji vs Jyushin Thunder Liger They might be 10 years older, but they've both still got it. There's a school of thought that says wrestling is pure symbolism - that a punch is just a punch. That's cobblers. The reason this match works so well is because of the reputation as a wrestling titan each man brings to the ring. The crowd undoubted knows, and the commentators are certainly selling, Mutoh's long standing and pretty serious knee problems. The whole narrative of the match is laid out around Mutoh's bad knees, and that's why everyone goes so bonkers at the finish. As far as I know they've only wrestled once previously. The whole thing is, therefore, laden with history and expectation. It's a cracker.
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Thursday 07 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Six hurt as tornado hits London - Fire services have sealed six roads in a zone covering a quarter of a square mile Lasting about 30 seconds, hitting a quarter of a square mile and yet, it's second up on the Ten O'Clock News, with their "special correspondent" in a helicopter overhead. Don't remember getting that kind of treatment here. I'll bet that this time next week nobody's making "tornado did 10 millions pounds worth of improvement" jokes, either.
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#[linkfarm] NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars Often when you read stuff like this the word "recent" means some time in the last few thousand years - that is recent on a geological scale. Here, recent means in the last 5 years. Wow. 15 years ago I was at a lecture on Martian geology where the phrase "God forbid, free water" was used when talking about the causes of some geological features. This is a pretty significant find.
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#[linkfarm] Flocl: a local copy of your Flickr photostream.
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#[linkfarm] When Mr. Self recently traveled to New York, however, he did not take a taxi from his house in South London to Heathrow. He walked the whole 26 miles. Upon arriving in New York, he walked from Kennedy Airport to the nearby Crowne Plaza Hotel Time was I thought Will Self was an insufferable pompous tosser. Over the years, he's won me over and I feel rather fondly towards him now. Even if he is still a bit pompous.

   * smellygit said One of his books (I forget which) was one of the few I stopped reading half way through. [added 7th Dec 2006]

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Wednesday 06 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Java's Iterator Interfaces
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#[linkfarm] The Iterator Design Pattern: as implemented in Java
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#[linkfarm] trailer for Mary Poppins re-cut by a fan into a horror film called "Scary Mary"
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Monday 04 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] MeetingLogs/OpenWeek BecomingMember
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#[linkfarm] Ubuntu Open Week - Packaging 101 - Mon, Nov 27, 2006
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#[Arabica]XSLT: xsl:namespace-alias

Watching December to Dismember. Team Extreme have just won the overlong curtain jerker against MNM. I just committed initial support for xsl:namespace-alias. It doesn't work properly in the face of xsl:imports yet, nor does it do anything with attributes in namespaces. The main bits work though. Now it's time for Matt Striker vs. Balls Mahoney. Yay.

Wrestling wasn't quite what I was hoping for - ECW really is being mishandled. Attributes in namespaces are now remapped correctly. Had a crack at #default too, although it's not quite there yet. [added 4th Dec 2006]

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Saturday 02 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Muslim veils A pictorial guide
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Friday 01 December, 2006
#[linkfarm] Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() It's all in the 0x5f3759df, apparently.
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# More Mind-Game. Four levels now, and they're harder. A cheery sound effect. There's some scoring. Hold space for a fast replay, or hit escape to bin out of the replay.And more - more sound, more levels, more damsels. Yay. [added 1st Dec 2006]

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