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I’ve been doing a lot of node.js recently, and I started editing coffee-script in my favourite editor which is Emacs. Now one thing I use regularly in Emacs is flymake-mode which essentially provides a set of hooks that are activated … Continue reading →

<rant>I’m doing a beginner’s French course at the Open University. It’s great. It’s also hard work and takes lots of time. However, the forums seem to attract many posts about how it is “suitable for beginner’s” or that “it’s not … Continue reading →

With the recent snowy weather in December, my roof sustained a fair amount of damage. Enough damage, in fact, to require a claim on the insurance. All well and good. In fact the insurance company have been very good and … Continue reading →

I was thinking today about my favourite anecdote about my Dad, who is very much alive.  My Dad, who is now in his seventies, is very into the outdoor life, exercise and generally being healthy.  I think that this has … Continue reading →

The picture says it all.  (Had a twitter failure, this was supposed to be a twitpic …)

Interesting post by Rob Wier about year and date problems in Excel.  I’m using OpenOffice instead.  They’ve hopefully fixed the problem in Excel by now though?

… has probably been the best thing that has happened to me on my desktop.  It started after an update on Intrepid 8.20 which broke Liferea and stopped it from running.  The effect has been to stop me reading endless … Continue reading →