A GMail notifier for Linux that actually works. And it’s written in python, which means that there’s none of that kerfuffle with compiling and stuff.
June 27, 2005
Gmail Notify
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Gobshite
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Chewing gum is disgusting. Two days running, the underside of my flipflop has acquired the masticated detritus of some loser’s mouthful of non-nutritional goo. Today my foot glued itself to the carpet of the train, and left a stretch of elasticated food additives behind after each step, as I tried to escape it.
What is the bloody point of this revolting stuff? Constant rumination makes you look bovine, not sophisticated. Vile, absolutely vile.
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- The containers are handy, Gordon, I agree. Well, unless you're in a train station, in whic... - Lyle
- More education?... hmmm... I suppose that a "less academic" degree of this nature would fi... - tucola
- *chomp chomp chomp* Polos rot your teeth like no-bodies-business so I switched to sugar fr... - Gordon
- One of my first "Saturday jobs" included scraping* the gum off the floors of a department ... - Mr.D.
- Polly: the downside to increasing the cost of chewing gum to take into account the cost of... - Pete
June 25, 2005
Condensed Milk
30. The Sea Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
This was an amazingly lovely book, a calmly unfolding masterpiece of subtlety, depth and clarity. It is written in four voices and set in three locations, and the characters and atmospheres are so real as to be sympathetic even at their worst.
Inexperienced Sarah by chance becomes the secretary of a famous playwright with a casting couch reputation; but Catherine-Parr-like she is the one left standing. While the other characters each undergo their own epiphanies around her, she learns and develops before our very eyes.
This is just the kind of book I would like to write myself.
Stuff about EJH
5/5
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June 24, 2005
Pretty Damn Awesome
This is a truly wonderful invention: the Hipster PDA – a portable, ecologically-friendly data-organisation device. I love it.
1. get a bunch of 3″x5″ file cards
2. clip them together with a binder clip
3. there is no step 3
Of course, I’ve been using an A6 notebook for quite some time, and this system works well too. The added advantage is that if you find yourself waiting for a long time in a restaurant, and you get your notebook out and start writing, the food usually appears almost immediately.
My favourite thing about the notebook system is transferring useful lists from the old notebook to the new notebook. Lists are lovely things that make me happy.
via The Guardian newsblog
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- Go on. Just a little one. - Doctor Pockless
- No! No pints! - Karen
- Mine's a pint. - Doctor Pockless
- Not gonna happen, Mr D. Some of us have work to do. - Karen
- Man, making that was really thirsty work.... - Count Smirnoff
June 23, 2005
£20,000 before breakfast
A less responsible person would holler “Drinks are on me!”
I’m much more sensible than that, of course. I intend to spend the money on myself.*
* Truth be told, it will probably go into a savings account and be forgotten about until I need to buy a house or something
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Conspiracy
So, Microsoft are clearly in league with battery manufacturers. You think I’m not going to tell you why? You’re wrong.
I have a wireless optical mouse, which takes two AA batteries. A couple of weeks back, a message popped up on screen saying “Your batteries are nearly dead. Replace them.” or words to that effect.
So I went out and bought some batteries, and put them somewhere close to hand.
A little while later, the message popped up again. I was about to replace the batteries, but then figured that I might as well try to squeeze every last drop available out of them, so I wouldn’t replace them until the red light actually went out.
It’s still on.
Most annoying of all, is that periodically this low-battery warning message pops up, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn it off. They clearly don’t want to accept the possibility that I don’t trust their frankly rather poor battery level detection apparatus.
I think that I’m going to consider writing a strongly worded letter, but naturally not actually bother doing it, because I’m too lazy.
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June 21, 2005
The Complete Life History Of A Chilli: Part 9
We still have a lot of chillis in the kitchen, though many have been sent to good homes. A few have also been planted outdoors in the trough with the tomatoes, and are looking very strong.
Some of the ones indoors are flowering. And we all know what flowers signify, don’t we?
Ostensible chillies.
Part One · Part Two · Part Three · Part Four · Part Five · Part Six · Part Seven· Part Eight
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- Thanks for the update, Rach. And remember that if you have to accept Earnest for who he is... - Pete
- Just thought I'd let the proud parents know the progress of one of their fostered chillis:... - Rach
- Wealthy ex-grandparents. Though if someone would pay me a - Pete
- - robin
- Once you've known Pete for a year or two [sic], you'll start to notice that he occasionall... - Karen
Software Patents
Richard Stallman has an article in yesterday’s Guardian about software patents in Europe. If you use a computer, I encourage you to be aware of the goings-on in the European Parliament right now. Read it.
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- I can't think of a specific scenario, although I don't think that means that one doesn't e... - Adrian
- In your opinion, can you give me an example of a scenario (ideally related to computer pro... - Pete
- See in general I think patents can be a good thing, and I extend this to software. However... - Adrian