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Geekery / July 30, 2008 / John / 3
I was speaking to Mr Daniels today and waxing lyrical, as is my wont, about the lovely messaging system in objective C. He commented that something I said was a really nice metaphor so I thought I’d post it here. Objective C, as you might know, uses square braces (these []) as part of its
Mac Development / July 30, 2008 / John / 0
Look up there! At the top! Where the page links are! See that one with ‘PressGang’? Well, that’s a new page that is. I’m currently adding Cocoa/Objective-C to my ever-lengthening list of programming languages and, as it usual for me, I’m writing something useful while learning it. It seems to make it all easier. PressGang
Ramblings / July 28, 2008 / John / 0
About as historically accurate as Lord of the Rings, but who cares! Rather than going for the continuous melancholic inevitability approach of the 2004 remake, this John Wayne outing goes all guns blazing for the ‘heroic last stand’ approach. Yeah, ok, so everyone dies, but there’s the usual rousing speeches and soapboxing that hollywood movies
Ramblings / July 28, 2008 / John / 0
You really can’t beat a good 50s/60s “Swords and Sandals” epic, can you? Everything’s brightly coloured, the enemies are evil beyond belief, the heroes are manly beardy and the girlies swoon and flutter like swoony-fluttery things! And then there’s the awesome Harryhausen creations – in Jason we have a giant bronze statue, harpies, a hydra,
The Tube / July 28, 2008 / John / 2
M’okay, overbearing workaholic mum takes extremely traumatised daughter and her equally traumatised horse to see Robert Redford. Redford is, apparently, a horse whisperer and is able to settle and calm the most disturbed of beasts. Presumably, it’s the horse he’s to look after, and not the daughter. Anyway, horse is healed, daughter is healed, workaholic
Ramblings / July 20, 2008 / John / 0
Today we decided to get bang up to date (for us) and went to see something which was in use only a few hundred years ago. This was actually the first time I’ve been inside Linlithgow Palace and I was kind of amazed at the sheer size of the place. To the extent that I
Ramblings / July 19, 2008 / John / 0
Just back from a short trip to Cairnpapple. It’s a neolithic burial ground tucked away in the hills around Bathgate. Originally, it was a celtic place of worship (a woodhenge – a broad open expanse with a circle of wooden posts surrounded by a ditch and a mound, open to the sky) some five thousand
Ramblings / July 18, 2008 / John / 4
So, as it happens, The Missing Sync isn’t as good as it purports to be. The functionality is great – it does a lot of fab stuff – it just, well, crashes. A lot. Like ALL THE TIME. Not only that, but it makes my shiny mac unstable and that’s something I Will Not Have
Geekery / July 15, 2008 / John / 0
Been listening to a (n awesome) podcast for the past few mornings. It’s an ongoing series as part of the Wizards of the Coast D & D podcast that’s a live session of the guys from Penny Arcade playing 4th Edition D & D. Some of them, believe it or not, are even playing it
Ramblings, Writing / July 9, 2008 / John / 1
“Go on,†she laughed, her eyes wide and sparkling, “show me again!†I gave a pretend sigh of long-suffering and dug the ten pence piece from my pocket again. It danced over the back of my hand, flickering in between my fingers like a ghost, before flipping up in the air, catching the light streaming