Category Archives: nördig

It’s not for me

Posted on December 7, 2007 by acb

It’s for a friend, honest: but does the lazyweb know a way to tweak the firewall in OS X so that all traffic on Port 80 is forbidden between midnight and 3.30pm, so that some work gets done? Continue reading →

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Ultimate procrastination

Posted on November 20, 2007 by acb

Thanks to John Naughton I have just stumbled upon a site which appears to list every public or semi-public talk being given in or around Cambridge University. It is a glorious searchable toyshop of interesting ideas and almost the best … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Torn between two browsers

Posted on November 2, 2007 by acb

Feeling like a fool: I really wish there were something that was as fast as Opera, and as popular as Firefox. At the moment I am using different browsers on different computers, and this also is confusing, since I miss, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Research tool wanted

Posted on October 29, 2007 by acb

What do people here use to store all the clippings they make from the web? It needs to be quick, unobtrusive, so that I can just press a hotkey in the browser, and to allow tagging and later sorting by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Bundle of stuff

Posted on August 28, 2007 by acb

Connotea — a sort of deli.cio.us for scientists, which picks up bibliographic information from sites like pubmed when it stores bookmarks therefrom. If you are doing something else while running a registry optimiser, you, too, can set all your personal … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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It had (haved?) to come

Posted on May 29, 2007 by acb

LOLCODE is a much better language than Ruby, and so we need to work hard to make LOLCODE ON MONORAIL the standard web development language! For a stunning example of what can be done with this almost completely natural language, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Why I buy thinkpads

Posted on May 17, 2007 by acb

I never know why people buy any laptop that isn’t an ultralight thinkpad. The mixture of light weight, robustness, and service seems to me unbeatable. Until, yesterday, on an aeroplane somewhere south of Nova Scotia, I flipped the thing over … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Stop me before I code again

Posted on May 12, 2007 by acb

As usual at the end of a long project, I suddenly feel an urge to do all the things I haven’t been doing even if many of them also involve sitting at a computer and typing. In particular, I have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Feeding the hungry

Posted on May 12, 2007 by acb

I looked at my stats the other day, and realised that I get something like 1800 visitors a day; more than 2000 when I am writing a lot here. So I feel I owe you something (you all owe me, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Small nerdy note

Posted on March 14, 2007 by acb

While I am waiting 20 minutes for the PNAS site to let me back in, I might as well explain why I have been barred: I use scrapbook. It is an extremely useful Firefox extension that grabs whole web pages … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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