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The Circle
David Egger’s The Circle is a fast paced and addictive read, it’s a blunt satire of the pervasiveness of social networking and people’s need to share. The Circle is an internet company that has replaced Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Justin.tv and more. As such it knows a lot about a lot of people. The novel […]
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Cooking with wine
I have just found out that some people refuse to cook with wine if they have children. It has never occurred to me that a glass of wine in a risotto or stew might be a problem, and I’ve been happily serving it up to my son (there’s a stew in the oven now). Being […]
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The Illiad
I’m not sure that given all of the attention and scholarly works about the Iliad, what I can really add, but it has made me think and I’ve really enjoyed it. The below does contain “spoilers” (the story is nearly 3000 years old!). I assume not much of an introduction is needed, it’s a testament […]
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Faster than light
Faster Than Light (FTL) is an infuriating strategy game. It pits you as a Captain Kirk like figure, constantly rerouting power from the warp drive to power up your lasers (or vice versa). In between the space battles you choose how you want to develop your spaceship & crew and choose your way through random events. […]
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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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Dean Sas 