Now this is a service that ought to get support -- kinda like calling-up Grandpa and asking about the family roots, the Internet Archive does what it says! Here's the School of Maths entry: Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Touched by a slumbering lungfish
Isn't it odd how occasionally something encountered online will have an unexpected, even emotional impact? This did it for me today: The Slumbering Lungfish Dybbuk Hostel and All-Night Boulangerie
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Monday, April 05, 2004
Stupid MySQL Benchmarking Lesson #153 (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)
So that's the right way to do it ;-) Note for future self... Stupid MySQL Benchmarking Lesson #153 (Jeremy Zawodny's blog):
- create schema
- write data generator
- write benchmarking plan
- write benchmarking code
- load data
- run tests
Friday, April 02, 2004
April fool from the Web Standards Project
;-) Not adhering to web standards may be bad for your sex life!
Matrix scene parodies
Jill has posted a link to a ping-pong game matrix-style that I'd seen before. For your amusement here's another: On Wednesday (as it was the last lab before Easter & only 10% of the class turned-up) we spent a little while laughing at this Mario Bros version of the Matrix Reloaded Smith vs Neo fight scene ;-) Kudos to Chiraag for pointing-it out...
Be warned: The Mario page opens with popups -- Opening it in Internet Exploder quickly reminded me why I love Mozilla Firefox!
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Fencing
<grin> Went to the Surrey Novices and Intermediates foil fencing competition on Sunday -- my first! Slightly marred by a lack of rest/sleep the previous day/night as we'd been into town with friends to see "When Harry Met Sally" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and "Matrix Revolutions" at the iMax (wow!) but it was an excellent day. I'm a beginner fencer so was not expected to win (& did not disappoint in that respect) but I did beat one person so it wasn't a total washout. First novice 'pool' had the eventual 1st and 2nd place fencers in it (tough group!) I was crap in the subsequent 'direct elimination' round where I was beating another novice for a while but lost after letting him take the last 5 points. In the 'intermediates' I was thrashed by the more experienced guys (but had fun) & the subsequent elimination round was against one of the best fencers in my club (Wimbledon) & I was quite happy to get 2 points off him (out of 15!) Good fun, but exhausting...
Friday, March 19, 2004
The electric sheep screen-saver
How cool! the electric sheep screen-saver, noticed on Boing Boing Blog.
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