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There was strange weather today. My parents went out somewhere about 25 miles away and it was fine and sunny, the sort of weather where you have a picnic outside whereas here at my house the weather was terrible, it was raining really hard and hailing with thunder and lightning! I think the weather has [...]

I am still working on a Perl script to parse the letterbox Superbase file. It has been tricky. Perl allows you to read in a file using specific delimiters as record separators but I couldn’t use this (normally) really useful feature because the record seperator (0×80) sometimes appeared in the data as part of a [...]

Yipes! Another blog post. Yeah, I decided that I’ve been neglecting this blog and not giving it the attention it deserves. So here is another post.
I’ve been writing Perl stuff this morning. A few years ago I bought a CD containing the 100 Club letterbox database as a Superbase (SBF) database file with a Windows [...]

Oh no! my bank account is looking bad. All the money that I managed to save from my placement year wages has being eaten away by the cost of my lovely broadband. I guess I’m going to have to get a job soon. Plus, my final exam is next week (and on the same day [...]