Year: 2012
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Reading 2012
During 2012 I have read 57 novels, which is significantly less than the previous year (83 between 09/10 and 12⁄11), when I first received my Kindle but still probably more than most other years since I was a child. Here is what I read during 2012, in rough chronological order: Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond…
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Raspberry pi audio
If you are trying to play audio on your raspberry pi over hdmi and it is not working then you need to ensure that the raspberry pi is driving your tv or monitor in hdmi mode and not dvi mode. To do this type /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -s If it’s running HDMI it will print something like…
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Reserving IP addresses with buggy Netgear firmware
My netgear DGN2000 router has an annoying bug where the IP address reservation refuses to reserve addresses for devices with MAC addresses that don’t begin with 00. This happens when you: Log onto your router at http://192.168.0.1/ Click LAN Setup Click Add at the bottom of the central frame Click on the device you wish to…
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Diplomacy
A few weeks ago I started playing diplomacy. diplomacy is a board game that is like a combination of chess and poker that looks like Risk. You have to think about the positions of your units and tactics but you also have to make alliances, bluff everyone and stab your allies in the back. The…
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Kindle statistics
Mildly frustrated to learn that I’m generating all kinds of interesting data while using my kindle, such as how long I’ve spent reading a book, how many times I’ve read the book and so forth and yet none of it is (easily) directly accessible to me, or exposed by Amazon. It is possible to get…
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A new addition
Earlier this month, Hugo Francis Sas was unexpectedly born a few weeks early. Sara-Kate and our little child are both healthy and strong. Parenthood didn’t get off to the best start, as I said, he arrived four weeks early which resulted in him staying at the hospital for a week until he was strong enough…
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Blogging with Octopress
I’ve switched to using Octopress rather than WordPress to run my blog. I have ran wordpress since 2003, before it was forked from B2 cafelog, I’ve decided to switch as I’m currently patching security problems in my blog software more often than writing blog posts, this is probably more indicative of my blog tempo rather than anything…
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So long and thanks for all the fish
I’ve been an Ubuntu member since 2006 and was actively involved for a year before that. In years gone by I’ve enjoyed spending time with the bugsquad, the doc team, #ubuntu support and a couple of small packaging fixes. Despite my best intentions, I’ve not managed to stay involved since my last renewal, my interests…
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Bleaklow aircraft crashes walk
During the sun last weekend Tom and I ventured out to stretch our legs and find some of the airplane wreckage on Bleaklow. On our list to find was the B29 Super fortress “over exposed”, a Lancaster KB993 and a C47 Skytrain. There is more wreckage besides on Bleaklow and in the rest of the…
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