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From The Daily WTF: "I've heard of Gisborne, Ashburton, Darfield, and Kaikoura", writes Steve Chadbourne, "but that last town is a new one to me."
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A TV Series about two C-Series Kawasaki Police Specials
We got this on DVD a few days ago. After two episodes, I'm sold. I shall be savouring the next twenty and then plotting a path to obtaining the next season. Maybe one day I'll find a couple of mint seventies-to-eighties police specials* and a riding partner.
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You know you've read too much WWDN when...
You're watching C4's 80s weekend and think "Hey, I've just been rickroll'd", even though you weren't really. -
BASIC to batch to Delphi to PostgreSQL to Python and back again.
The old DOS/PDS BASIC app I've been working on for the past 20 years or so (with some breaks to do other stuff) was purely Microsoft PDS BASIC (and a little MS-DOS batch language) until recently. Now parts of it are in Delphi, some of which contain SQL queries, since it's now also a front-end for a PostgreSQL database running on a Linux server, ( Read more... ) -
Scriptomatic Version 2.0 - filing under "unexpected humour"
Next week's fun interfacing project is talking to a voicemail system. Like the PBX with the MCP last week, it's talking TCP/IP and I'll probably hit it with Delphi/Indy. Unlike the PBX, I don't have the actual device in my secret programming lair*. For the testing, I might have to hook up remote access to a PC on-site. Anyway, the vendor did ( Read more... ) -
"With the information I can access, I can run things 900-1200 times better than any human."
I've been writing Delphi code to log data from an ethernet-TCP/IP connected PBX. People make calls, the PBX sends out a line of text with the details. We used to log this on the serial port, but serial ports aren't cool anymore. An Indy client component seemed to be the best way to do this, so I coded and drew forms for an app. Since the PBX ( Read more... )
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