Posted by Ceri Davies Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:10:00 GMT
James and Helen got married on Saturday in a beautiful ceremony. It was a wonderful day and we all got a bit drunk and took lots of bad pictures as a result.
Thank you for having us present, guys, it was a real privilege.
Posted by Ceri Davies Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:29:00 GMT
I like prunes, and I usually have a few after my lunch as dessert. I’ve never understood why other people seem not to like them, but it all became clear today when I accidentally put them in the fridge this morning.
Cold prunes taste like Jabba’s penis. Not that I’d know or nuthin’.
Posted by Ceri Davies Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:23:00 GMT
When I ask Stef if she wants a cup of tea or coffee, she’ll often say “yes, peppermint please”, and I’ll mutter ”EINVAL” to myself and chuckle. That’s really nothing compared to what I found myself doing today.
We were walking round H&M earlier and she said “look for things that are brown or pink” (hey, no smirking in the back) and I actually said “your search returned 45000216 results; try narrowing your search by specifying additional keywords”.
I’m not sure whether I’m more upset by the look she gave me, or that I was a factor of ten out.
Posted by Ceri Davies Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:02:00 GMT
I’ve decided to move the web log to Typo, purely so that I can stop running MySQL (because it keeps spinning on EAGAIN on some pipe or other), the worst excuse for a database I ever came across.
The process of doing so has only confirmed that I am doing the right thing; for example, you’d think that the --compatible=postgresql or even the --compatible=ansi options to mysqldump would produce SQL that PostgreSQL would understand. No. All that does is leave out the MySQL-specific storage clauses and quote things with with real quotes rather than backticks. The data types are not converted into something that PostgreSQL understands.
For example, PostgreSQL doesn’t understand int(n) as a datatype; integer is what it wants to see. --compatible=postgresql doesn’t know that for some reason. I count that as pretty basic.
Anyway, the point is that for now, all the articles have not been moved. They will be, I just have to work out the best way of doing it. For now, old web log is at http://submonkey.net/wordpress/ and the new one is at http://typo.submonkey.net/.
The gardening news is that I finally got hold of the site supervisor and I’ll be picking my new plot next Wednesday.
Update, 20/09, 22:48: Turned out to be easier to migrate all the posts by hand. Some comments were lost but I’m not bothered.
Posted by Ceri Davies Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:56:00 GMT
On another note, we bought one of those orgasmatrons and, far from being the best, most wonderful head-massage experience ever, it’s horrible. It’s like having someone close an umbrella on your head.
Stef, on the other hand, thinks it’s brilliant.
Posted by Ceri Davies Sun, 15 May 2005 13:42:00 GMT
After nearly 12 years together, Phill and Julia got married yesterday in a beautiful ceremony during which certain male members of the audience were moved to tears.
Thanks for the honour of being there, guys.
Posted by Ceri Davies Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:40:00 GMT
Quick braindump:
Heard about these crazy “pro-life” pharmacists on Radio 4 last night. Arrogant pro-life-the-way-I-say-so idiots.
Tiger is released tomorrow, and since this is a blog I have to list the new features I think might actually be useful:
Xgrid: apparently it’s absurdly easy to cluster Macs now. Xcode’s distributed compilation was neat, but this looks great (proviso the lack of documentation today; we’ll see tomorrow)
Inkwell: I shyed away from tablets because they looked like a pain in ass to use. No longer
Xcode 2.0: Remote debugging looks nice
That’s pretty much all. I’m sure that the other enhancements are great, but I won’t be rushing out to buy it on the strength of this.
Buying a house == PITA (yes, still)
Where is FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE? Well, there is a networking regression that needs working out. We have a pretty lengthy list of new features too. There’s an upgrade I can recommend.
Update: The aforementioned bug has been fixed, and FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE should be unleashed on May 9th.
Posted by Ceri Davies Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:06:00 GMT
My 29th birthday yesterday was lovely; Stef baked me a cake, I had good presents and a big pile of us went to the pub before heading back to ours afterwards.
In the pub, Phill said the sweetest thing to me: “Of the really cool things that have happened to me in the last five years, meeting you was one of the best”. Now, there was some beer involved here but it was sincere and I was extremely touched. When he followed with “and if I was that way inclined, I think I might even try to bum you”, I was totally lost for words.
Posted by Ceri Davies Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:50:00 GMT
What with the Liberal Democrats planning to sneak in an extra %3.75 income tax (and note that it says “on average”, which means I will probably pay more) and the fact that I still haven’t forgiven Michael Howard for removing my rights to silence and to protest, if Gordon Brown manages to save me £1500 on Wednesday by raising stamp duty limits high enough, then I might even vote for the bastards.
Jon Owen Jones manages to vote against most of the stupid stuff, is responsive to mail and seems to agree with me on most issues (though making me think that is his job, it’s trivial to check), despite being part of Tony Blair’s party. If these two ever get back to me then I may actually have a winner here.
Posted by Ceri Davies Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:19:00 GMT
I had a vision of the future of shopping and, with strange synchronicity, saw that Zoe Williams has been thinking about it too. In yesterday’s Guardian, Zoe guesses that the only reason that banks are forcing shops over to Chip & PIN ”is that, when a signature is faked, they’re liable, whereas when a pin is duped, the customer is”.
Zoe does have somewhat of a reputation for making uninformed guesses about economics, but in this instance Zoe does state that she doesn’t know if the incentive stated above is correct. Although it may be part of the reason, I see a good reason for the merchants to be moving: RFID, plus Chip & PIN (or payment by fingerprint), means that checkout assistants can be dispensed with.
It’s not hard to imagine a system that will only let you leave you the store with the items that you have paid for - oh wait, apparently the ”Shopping Buddy” already does this. If you work in a shop, start thinking about what you want to do next.
