24 January 2012
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Apparently Ubuntu is considering a move away from traditional GUI menus to use an interface called HUD (presumably Heads Up Display). I watched a short video on the Read Write Web site. There is also more information on Mark Shuttleworth’s … Continue reading
3 January 2012
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When I read Making Money by Terry Pratchett I was intrigued by the financial computer he described. Constructed from various tubes, taps and joints, it used coloured water to model the Ankh-Morpork economy, allowing the resident financial genius to make … Continue reading
20 December 2011
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That is what I normally feel like screaming after looking at my hard crafted web designs in earlier versions of Internet Explorer and this afternoon, visiting colleagues in neuropathology at the JR (IE7) was no exception. I am counting down … Continue reading
17 December 2011
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Yesterday I update my blogging platform to WordPress 3.3. I took a few days to get round to it, during which I made backups and planned my strategy, but in the end it was fairly painless. I worked on my … Continue reading
23 November 2011
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I am still very happy with my Kindle. Even though it is now only the old version, with shiny new devices having supplanted it, it still works perfectly well and I have all sorts of uses for it. However, it … Continue reading
17 November 2011
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After the statistics course I did last month, this xkcd cartoon caught my eye as it illustrates one of the points that was made. 95% confidence in a finding sounds impressive until you realise that 5% of the time the … Continue reading
15 November 2011
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Richard Stallman visited Oxford University recently and addressed a capacity crowd at one of the lecture theatres. I couldn’t make the event but the recording is now available (in Ogg Vorbis format of course — no patent-protected MP3 for him). … Continue reading
8 November 2011
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Before heading home from work last night, I decided to do a little investigation of whether there was any more effective (and, okay, yes, pretty) way to preview and switch between windows and workspaces on my workhorse Linux box (Xubuntu … Continue reading
2 November 2011
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Google has been rolling out some updates this week. Yesterday I got the new look Reader and also decided to follow the link in the bottom right of my Gmail screen to opt in early to that update, too. I … Continue reading
27 October 2011
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After the first day of the stats course, I am starting to get to grips with R, although I am still largely following the examples in the coursebook. The challenge is learning two new languages at once: the language of … Continue reading