I’m working on a spreadsheet application at the moment. (Very exciting.) Part of the implementation obviously includes an expression language (so you can write things like total = sum(numbers) or vat = price × 17.5%).
Part of the design is to disallow things like “text” ÷ 11 or apples + oranges, and for that I need [...]
I just watched The Stolen Earth (first episode of the two-parter Doctor Who season 4 finalé).
Fuck.
What a stinking cheese platter of overripe dramatic stilton.
Personally I lay full blame at the feet of series godfather and cheesemonger in residence, Russell T. Davies. Gaping plot-holes, magical mobile phones which work across the Universe, a key plot-point straight [...]
Gary Gygax, inventor of the role playing game, yesterday failed to recover from an Abdominal Aneurysm spell cast by higher-level mage. Finished off by giant spiders:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080322/news_1m22gygax.html
He is survived by a wife, six children, and 8 million teenagers with funny-shaped dice.
Well, there you go. Just noticed that the last blog post I posted was posted more or less 10 years since I blogged my first blog post. Way back in 1997. That’s ten whole years of posting shite on the Internet. I would do more of it, you know, but really, I don’t know where [...]
Yeah, the wee server which was running dysphoria.net finally gave up the ghost at the very end of January (it was an ancient, recycled desktop machine and the disk—and probably most of the rest of it—was a bit dodgy) and I only got around to setting up its replacement tonight.
The replacement is a tiny, silent [...]