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So, that siege, eh?
My first thought on hearing of it was that it's bloody convenient timing, what with the security services being all gung-ho about expanding their powers and there starting to be a bit of pushback. It's not like they don't have form, after allI'm not saying that I genuinely believe that this was some sort of conspiracy. Apart ( Read more... ) -
Chromecast impressions
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Phones, the conclusion
As per my recent post, I'd got pretty fed up waiting on Optus to deliver the iPhone 6 Plus I'd ordered at the start of October. They finally got a clue and switched on their "we'll call you back" function on their sales support line today, so I was finally able to get through to them and cancel the order ( Read more... ) -
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Currently reading Ancillary Justice. It took a little to get used to the default being female - one of the cultural groups doesn't distinguish between the genders in language, so they use she/her as the default - but so far it's living up to the praise it's received ( Read more... ) -
Daily dose of kitten
I do not usually do cat photos, certainly not here, but this one is rather cute and I thought
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Benjamin
Today was Benny's last day at the office.
This doesn't sound terribly significant, but it is.
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The experiment of trying to use Twitter again is going tolerably. The key things seem to be finding a client I don't hate and finding people with interesting things to say - not just the usual echo-chamber of sysadminly types ( Read more... ) -
Baby's second Moose class
Yesterday I wrote my first Moose class: a simple wrapper around Selenium, basically.
While not sleeping I had a lot of thoughts about how to better do this, and now I have a shiny new base class making use of lazy builders and read-only attributes. This shiny new class looks a bit like this:
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Earworms
Today has been unusually earwormariffic.
From waking until about 3PM: Liz Phair, H.W.C.
From about 3PM until 6PM: Spider Pig
Then briefly while travelling home: Lily Allen, Sheezus.
The first of those was wildly unhelpful. Not only was it incredibly distracting - far more so than a typical earworm - but it was also something I couldn't say ( Read more... ) -
New shiny
After years of being a Telstra bigot - a position arrived at after discovering I couldn't reliably make a call on the Optus network in front of Rialto Towers in Melbourne back in 2001-ish - I have finally decided that it isn't worth the ~30% premium any more ( Read more... )