Category Archives: Miscellany

Stuff, musings and nothing in particular.

A view of a dying way of Fen life.

Posted on August 24, 2010 by diziet

Nice audio slideshow. The Eel Man of the Fens

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Scientist detects powerful jet from supernova. . .

Posted on August 13, 2010 by diziet

and decides to announce it as a Doctor Who fanfic rather than a boring paper (via Metafilter): Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral

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Playing with photoshop.

Posted on August 13, 2010 by diziet

It’s all well and good making apps that work but you realise how dull they look. That’s the key difference between what I have right now and existing apps in the store. Look and Feel. To fix that we need … Continue reading →

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I need this for when I’m painting.

Posted on August 5, 2010 by diziet

Perhaps I could get it attached to my future cyborg arm? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/imudeblurring/

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Crypto chall…. errr whut?

Posted on July 26, 2010 by diziet

Thanks to kirrus. I hadn’t actually looked at it since saving it to a text file… but yes it does indeed have exif data. You win! diziet@xenoglossicist:~$ cat cs_cypher.txt | base64 -d > fish.bin diziet@xenoglossicist:~$ file fish.bin fish.bin: JPEG image … Continue reading →

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A little bit of this and that.

Posted on July 22, 2010 by diziet

Quite a few things have vied for my attention this week. I ploughed through 2 books, namely The Girl who Played With Fire a book on Obj-C. I’m now reading The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Next and Living Next … Continue reading →

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Walking over the Gravel Pits at Sunset

Posted on July 10, 2010 by diziet

A few photos from a little stretch of Casey’s legs. Once the temperature had dropped enough not to kill the fluffy beast that is. <a rel="sf-lbox-manual" href="http://farm5.staticflickr website here.com/4120/4780516506_fb27e57029_b.jpg” title=”Cardinal Beetles Mating”>

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New Mac!

Posted on July 7, 2010 by diziet

Well it seems I can’t reliably fix my poor old MacBook Pro and I discovered that my credit card was significantly in credit! There’s a turn up for the books. Give or take £200 it was in credit to the … Continue reading →

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Well don’t I feel a prat!??

Posted on June 10, 2010 by diziet

So err… I guess I’ve learnt a lot writing this crap on my own, and I am at least comfortable in the knowledge that when my routines DO work they are faster but I just found this: MagickMorphologyImage MagickMorphologyImage() applies … Continue reading →

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I suck

Posted on May 29, 2010 by diziet

at make files. That is all.

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