Tue, 18 Apr 2006

Link(s) of the Day

In the tradition of not actually providing any useful material whatsoever, here's another collection of vastly amusing - yet completely content free, or at least of limited use - links. Yay me!

http://www.livingstonmontana.com/access/dan/191magicswitch.html: I was recently reminded of the Magic / More Magic switch located on the MIT campus - an amusing story and well worth a read.
http://www.ddj.com/184403996: I've not used VB for a while, though I did start my commercial career as a software developer with VB3 and worked right through to VB6 (when I took the opportunity to shift to *NIX platforms.) It's always nice to have a technical article that has me smiling and nodding in agreement while reading through it :-)
http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/derekandclive.htm: Derek and Clive (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) were mentioned on a program last night as having been censored during the 80's in Britain. Of course, I had to have a look to see what the fuss was about. The link has some recordings and some scripts (with outtakes and cuts marked) which are excessively vulgar, but very very funny.

posted at: 15:37 | path: /lotd | permanent link to this entry

Blog Search Function

A few times of late, I've noticed that my blog has reached some kind of critical mass whereby I cannot easily find an entry I'm looking for - without relying on the power of grep or similar, that is. A small amount of perl later and I have a very basic search function, that also (helpfully???) highlights where it finds matches. This is still quite buggy, but it's good enough for an initial release. It's something I'll work on as time permits over the next few weeks.
You can check out the shiny new search box at the top of the side-bar at www.signal2noise.co.uk/blog .
posted at: 02:48 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry