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Today I went to to the Letterboxing meet at Lee Moor. It was really busy there but I did get myself the latest clue catalog.
I found this article today on What the US Constitution would be like if it was an EULA
I also found this link a few days ago about creating a gravity defying [...]

This week has seen some interesting code. I’m currently working on my MEDA302 (Graphics) coursework mostly this has meant me brushing up on my C++ skills and figuring out how to use the SDL and SDL_gfx libraries. The coursework is really interesting, to make a simple 3D program that does scaling, translation, rotation and a [...]

My mum has just gone on one of her tidying sprees in my room again and despite it looking marginally more tidy now all of my stuff is crammed under my computer desk and I can’t reach any of the stuff that I need (namely access to the sockets and back of my boxen). I [...]

For anyone thinking of destoying the Earth here is a quick rundown of a few ways to do it. Please attempt it before tomorrow. I have lots of coursework due in then and I’m sure the destruction of Earth will make a good extenuating circumstance.

The central locking on my parents car has gone a bit dodgy. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, the central locking won’t work from the drivers side door. However if you go around to the passenger side you can lock it but it’ll promptly unlock itself. Then the drivers side door lock starts working properly again.
Sometimes [...]

I’ve been meaning to do a backup of my home directory for ages but I was worried that if I planned in advance to do one the gods of fate would rain fire and brimstone down upon my computer destroying all data the second before I was about to to back it up.
The most important [...]

Trying to look at the news on the BBC website and I get two popup dialogs from RealPlayer, both saying “General error. An error has occured” and clicking on “More Info…” closed the dialog. It reminded me of the bit in Red Dwarf where Holly says “Emergency! Emergency! There’s an emergency going on”. Totally useless, [...]

No, I don’t mean the thing inside curly brackets.
I was looking around on the web and I found something that describes my current state with my final year project fairly well http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6744&cid=889873. Yep, I’m suffering from programmers block.
I’ve recently decided to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for the database because it has better support [...]