Misspelled Nemesis Club

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Summary Ansible is weakly typed, but in particular variables set on the command line are stringly typed.

Regular expressions (regexes) are famously hard to read or write.

Last week I ran three blind taste tests at a local meetup.

In Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice Calc one can name a range of cells and refer to the name in a formula.

I’ve hit a wall with this, so please take it and do with it as you will.

Last year in MPGe of an electric car I attempted to compare the carbon emissions of the BMW Mini-E, and my own Ford Sport Ka.

Birmingham has a vibrant community of geek/enthusiast groups, of which I’m proud to be a part.

Does an electric car gets better or worse mileage than a conventional petrol or diesel car?

There are quite a few forums on the net for electric bikes, scooters, motorcycles and cars.

These two messages appeared on the Spatialite mailing list today: From: stefanobartol87453@gmail.com Subject:Where can I find an online anti-virus that doesn’t install on your PC?

Petrol is fantastic stuff.

LocalView Intranet is a web mapping product developed and sold by ESRI UK, predominantly to local councils.

Apologies if your email to me has bounced these last few days.

To help you build and distribute your Python packges, Python provides distutils.

If you’ve enjoyed PyCon UK the last 2 years, the bad news is that it won’t be happening this year.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are by their nature data driven.

Investigating the performance of an intranet mapping website this week, I was introduced MXDPERFSTAT.

Sending a sensitive file, one that should be encrypted, amongst Linux and OSS geeks is doable.

A couple of years ago I tried to use ArcObjects, through IronPython.

Here’s an email I received today: From: meetYourmessenger <no-reply@meetyourmessenger.com> Subject: You have (1) new message from Adam Hi alex, You have (1) unread invitation “Hello :-)” from Adam at meetYourmessenger.co.uk Click here Show the message in…

I have no evidence, and it’s wishful thinking more than anything.

Putting my timesheets in order today, I finally figured out how to make Excel deal correctly with time durations.

Slashgeo have noted the release of Deep Zoom in Javascript aka Seadragon, by Microsoft.

For months now, I’ve found Firefox on my Linux laptop to sometimes be sluggish and a CPU hogging, particularly when scrolling.

I couldn’t find a Python cheat sheet that I liked, so I made another.

This post is a tribute to Linux Hater who sadly has retired.

The XBox 360 (Xenon), Wii (Broadway) and Playstation 3 (Cell) all use an IBM licensed PowerPC CPU.

Backing up my home folder this weekend, in readiness for the Ubuntu Intrepid beta I spotted some unusual path names scroll by: ~/.local/share/applications ~/.local/share/desktop-directories ~/.local/share/gnome-do ~/.local/share/mime ~/.local/share/Mono P…

It’s been Five years since I moved to Birmngham, to begin work with Defence Estates.

In Fitts Law and Minimalism vs GTK+ and Qt I complained about the excessive use of borders and padding in GTK+ and Qt.

It all started with the Pidgin chat window, which is surrounded by several pixels of padding.

Anybody who tried to register on this blog during the last 6 months or so, would not have received an activation email.

On 31st March the British Standards Institute (BSI) submitted an updated vote of approval, on ISO 29500 (MS OOXML).

My first ever LugRadio Live was LRL 2006, which was the perfect opportunity to pickup CDs of the then newly released Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Dear web 2.0 coolios, Please stop writing comment systems with half-assed threading.

The term “unlimited” has been stretched in various ways over the last few years.

By default the proprietary driver for Nvidia cards on Linux fires an interrupt for every frame drawn on screen, whether it needs to or not.

Several events for me in the last fortnight converged almost perfectly on a common theme On Thursday 28 March The Register reported from an anonymous source, that the British Standards Institute (BSI) would reverse their vote on the proposed DIS 29500 sta…

My first UK Unix User Group conference and the first ever Postgres UK conference ended on Wednesday.

For those who aren’t familiar, ArcSDE is server software that sits atop a database to spatially enable it.

The UKUUG Spring 2008 and first ever PostgreSQL UK conference are soon.

I joined the property ladder 2 years ago, a nice prefab steel-framed maisonette with only one problem - a minute builder-specified kitchen.

Apologies to anyone who got email to moreati.org.uk bounced or a 404 over the last week.

I’ll admit it, I’m cheap when it comes to telecommunication.

Thanks to a comment on the blog post Hacking T-Mobile, I’ve discovered that the T-Mobile Web n Walk transparent proxy can be bypassed neutered.

Around 1992 my second computer was an Amiga 500+, a lovely machine.

It is said there are 2 types of people: Those who perform backups.

At PyCon UK 2007 I gave a short talk on using Python to deal with tabular data.

For the last week or so I’ve been putting together a spreadsheet, to compare the various Python implementations on support of PEPs and library modules.