My rubbish herbs

28Mar08

OK, a quick update:
Chives: rubbish, all dead. I thought these were meant to be easy.
Sage: Vibrant.
Rosemary: gave it a haircut today, made lovely spaghetti with said rosemary, chilli, garlic etc. Good.
Parsley: oddly vibrant.
Thyme: trying hard. Not dead yet.
Mint: supposed to be very aggressive, in fact dead.
Courgettes: one dead owing to inexpert re-potting. One appears OK.
Tomatoes: [...]

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Recent musical epiphanies

26Mar08

OK, the inaugural music post.
First off, just to discourage any dilettantes, this will not be one of those blogs where I actually post songs, or entire albums, to download. While I’m against DRM of all kinds, and I think the music industry at present doesn’t know New Year from New York as far as sales [...]

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Deferred functions in Javascript

24Mar08

Okey dokey. So as my first little peek at some of the actual programming I’ve been up to over the past couple of years, here’s a little implementation of a way to defer arbitrary functions until arbitrary conditions have been met.
One of the first problems I came up against when developing Bxs came to light [...]

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Why not Rails … yet?

24Mar08

So straight off the bat, why did I decide on PHP as the server-side technology to use for my little project?
Well, first of all, I knew more about it than any other scripting language — meaning I knew enough of the language itself and its structure to be reasonably confident in turning out good, object-oriented [...]

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