You know you’re getting on when …
Ξ February 27th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Babes |
You see Facebook’s ‘Girl of the Day’, and the first thing you think is nice hat instead of nice rack!
Crossroads
Ξ February 26th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Mumble |
Just near where I live is a crossroads – which I use daily. Usually, I’m crossing straight over, and usually I find there’s someone opposite that’s indicating right: that’s their right, i.e., they want to turn in front of me.
Now, I was taught that if someone has to turn across your path, that you have the right of way, i.e., I have the right of way here. However, empirical evidence would seem to suggest that this is urban myth, or else very few drivers know the rule … I’ve often had to hit the brakes when both they and I find we can go!
Last night I decided to try and find a definitive ruling on this and pretty quickly found the Highway Code on-line, and, search as I can, I cannot find any reference/rule as to what right-of-way applies to crossroads.
Maybe I should just ram the next guy [they're usually guys] that does this – and let the police/insurance company quote the relevant piece of the law!
Commenting
Ξ February 25th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Coding, Geeky, Software |
I wrote this comment in some code earlier:
// Recursively find folders that have no files or subfolders.
However, I wasn’t happy with it :- is it finding folders that have no files in them, or, failing that, finding folders that have no subfolders in them – or both? Of course, it might also mean find folders with no files, yet contain subfolders!
Actually the routine was to do both – so the comment had to be altered – but to what?
// Recursively find folders that have no files OR subfolders.
Is that any better – just using an uppercase OR? Hmmm.
// Recursively find folders that have no files/subfolders.
Seems a bit better to me.
// Recursively find folders that have no files AND no subfolders.
The English doesn’t sound good.
// Recursively find folders that have neither files nor subfolders in them.
Argh, Nor!
Went for this in the end 
// Recursively find folders that are *totally* empty.
So, now on to the easy bit … the actual code!
Funny
Ξ February 22nd, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Oxford, Relationships, Someone knows |
For the Ghost
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TempClean
Ξ February 20th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Geeky, Software, Technical |
A little application written by me that removes temporary files from your PC: including those in a user’s temp folder, their temporary internet files, and the Recycle Bin. It appends its doings to TempClean.log [which will be in the same folder as the application].
When it’s first run it will add itself to your auto-runs, i.e., programs that start automatically when you log on.
So, all you need to do is download the zip file, unzip it [Windows will do that for you], and then run TempClean.exe – that’s it.
Infinity & Brian Clegg
Ξ February 14th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Books, Geeky, Maths, Oxford |
Went to see Brian Clegg give a talk on Infinity – based on his book, hosted by Cafe Scientifique, and sponsored by Blackwell’s bookshop.
After hearing Brian, I don’t feel so bad about often misspelling his name as ‘Brain’ – Brain Clegg sounds about right!
I also felt rather envious: how rewarding it must be; being able to research a subject one feels so taken by, have it published, and then enjoy speaking on it once in a while!
In the picture above Brian is about to get a bit heavy for some of the audience [judging by the majority of the questions asked in the Q&A]. He’s previously gone from potential-infinities [
] and just got to Cantor‘s countable (concrete) infinites [
], and is moving into the rather beautiful proof that there are still larger ones (sans having Brian around for tea, here’s a nice walk-through for anyone interested).
New Toy
Ξ February 5th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Geeky |
PC World in Cheltenham are selling off their USB toys – for example, I got a USB Rocket Launcher for £2.99!
Dog!
Ξ February 2nd, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Dog |
No, not a reference work on my former girlfriends [although ..., hmmm ...,] [but no - maybe not for *this* post].
‘Dog!’ is a note on my/our dog [Toto] – he is a Maltipoo. Got him from south Wales this afternoon thanks to an advert in the Shropshire Journal.
