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July 17th, 2010
01:41 pm [Link]	Testing, testing. tap tap Is this thing turned on? Just checking to see if'n anybody still reads LJ. If so, I believe I may begin posting again. Current Location: BS5 6SN Current Mood: quixotic (11 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 28th, 2009
03:35 pm [Link]	The circle of pain ends here I've been through a lot of shit in the last decade. Thousands of miles and years after the worst of them, I think that while the earliest of these things seemed complicated at the time, they were quite simple because I hadn't gone through as much trauma yet. As time went on, I used my history of pain as a shield and a weapon on the occasions I felt hurt again ("you don't know what you're talking about because I've been through XYZ!"). Most of the time, though, I tried to use it to empathise with others who'd been through equivalent experiences. No matter what happened, this combination always ended badly. What I've come to realise (partly thanks to being in a different culture) is this: I can either take the so-called "victim mentality" and use my pain as an emotional weapon or I can choose to use the memories I have to understand others who are still caught in the former mode. I cannot do both. The occasional slip-up is okay, but any more than that and I'm back in the "transitory" stage where my flip-flopping will confuse and damage others. And, ultimately, just bring me more pain. A fair few people have been hurt in my figuring this out. I can't feel too guilty about that, though... because part of this is realising that just as I had this responsibility to break the circle, so do they now. As we all do. Comments screened, and only passed through if you ask me to. Privacy note: friends-locked only to protect against the general public. Feel free to show to people who might benefit. Current Location: e9 5rb Current Mood: compassionate Current Music: Crystal Ball (Styx) (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 1st, 2009
01:52 am [Link]	Transcript of a wrong-number SMS I received a strange text on my phone this morning: Hello mate its ray this is traces number my fones playin up over ere. Just thought id send u a quick txt 2 say it was gr8 catchin up with u lads yesterday. poor trace is sufferin a bit this mornin ;-D. enjoy the match pal Now, I don't know anybody named "Ray". So after careful thought, I sent the following response: Yeh was gr8 last nite. Lookin 4wrd 2 game. Hope its ok, she prolly told u, but trace an me had a snog when u went out 4 a fag ("Fag" still means "cigarette" in England.) I didn't hear from the enigmatic Ray for several hours. Then, I got this text: Fuckin potato munchin numptys At this point, I decided that I'd probably better make Ray's error clear to him before something tabloid-worthy occurred... (that's what you get for texting the wrong number! ;) It didn't work. Its ray m8! It's Emmett m8! That was the last I heard from Ray. Current Location: e9 5rb (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
February 12th, 2009
02:56 pm [Link]	Make update -- still need help If you're a coding whiz who knows make well (I'm starting to doubt that such a person exists), I still need your help. What I'm trying to do, again, is individually gzip all the .js files under a certain directory. Here's how far I've gotten: FILES_STATIC = mydir/build/blix/blix.js mydir/build/blarg/blarg.js FILES = $(shell find mydir/build -name '*.js') %.js.gz: %.js gzip -c $< > $@ compress: $(FILES:.js=.js.gz) $(FILES_STATIC:.js=.js.gz) @echo $(FILES) When compress runs, it should do both the static and generated lists. The generated one evaluates to nothing, though. The echo command correctly prints out the generated list. If I try to `echo $^`, I get a blank line. Note that the files do not exist at the beginning of the script: they're de-archived before compress is called. What madman designed make anyways? Did someone really write the language up, put together the first build based on it, and go to bed that night thinking they'd left the programming world a better place? (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:18 am [Link]	Calling any Makefile experts I'm crossing my fingers that someone on my f-list is a rare expert on Makefile syntax. I'm not, nor can I find any. What I need to do is gzip all the .js files under one directory (not flat, but in subdirs). Any idea on how? Can make even do that? (Leave a comment)
November 29th, 2008
11:59 pm [Link]	Soup Recipe ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) Current Location: E9 5RB Current Mood: accomplished Tags: recipe (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 24th, 2008
07:53 am [Link]	Ameca's Mt R liabN work Sounds rather like a transcript of conversations I remember having when I was with Verizon. (For the record: Verizon was the absolute worst in coverage and reliability, by a large margin, of the three wireless networks I've used: Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. ATT is the best by far) Current Mood: amused (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 22nd, 2008
12:46 pm [Link]	Semi-spam: moving sale! T minus two weeks and counting. Selling almost all my remaining possessions at pretty darn low prices. Some of it might be more of interest to friends on here than to, say, the general Craigslist community. Details are behind the cut, but here's the general selection: Heather Alexander 10 CD collection Weird Al Yankovic 10 CD collection Adventure games for PC, 8 games in all Board games including the posh Deluxe Scrabble and the kitsch Mad Magazine game ( The gritty details ) Current Mood: accomplished (10 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 14th, 2008
11:13 pm [Link]	Laptop accessibility So it just occurred to me that laptop computers aren't generally very accessible for zombies. The trackpads are heat sensitive, so their fingers wouldn't even register! Something should be done about this. (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
August 13th, 2008
09:19 pm [Link]	Thoughts on an old TV show Seven Days. It's an interesting if poorly executed science fiction show. But has it ever occurred to anyone that the launch team would never get the chance to improve their technique by learning from past mistakes? Every single launch would be the first one for them. Current Mood: curious (1 comment \| Leave a comment)

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