Electronics geek, phone phreak, whiteboard enthusiast, broadcasting nerd, amateur photographer, general troublemaker
Run in case of Death
This is cross-posted from CantHackWontHack, and my first contribution to their blog after they appeared at my house this evening. The first rule of hack-club – DO talk about hack club! OK so I figured – I’ve got irssi running in screen on my virtual server, like most good geeks. What happens if I get [...]
Kindle Schedule Thingy
So, I thought it’d be nice if I could upload my day’s travel/meeting/whatever schedule to my Kindle and have it “offline” for quick reference. My life basically revolves around Google Calendar, which just so happens to have an ical feed export function. So I threw together a bit of Python which went through the events [...]
Kindle travel gateway page
I decided that it’d be highly useful to have a few things on my Kindle that were easily accessible through the browser on the device. Thus, I threw together a kindle page which links to a few things. There’s really not much to it (by intention). Everything I’ve linked to looks pretty good on the [...]
Kindle 3 test
I’m writing this post on my brand new Kindle 3G. I’m trying to see how usable it is for writimg on the go. I think so far it’s better than say my mobile (currently a Nokia 6320) however its obvious that the otherwise brilliant eInk display is not the best for editing. There are huge [...]
batchee: Simple batch processing utility
Whilst working on coursework, I had the need to do a bit of batch processing. I had a look at a few other job scheduling programs and none of them were quite what I needed (they were either way too complex, or didn’t do concurrency) Prompted by an IRCer, too, I decided I may as [...]