Monthly Archives: August 2007

Sunny Sardinia

Prickly Pears

I just got back from holiday in Sardinia and it was bloody hot! Did lots of swimming eating and taking of photos. The Prickly Pear cactus pictured right grows everywhere in Sardinia and the fruit is pretty yummy – but … Continue reading

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Falun Gong

Falun Gong brass band

I saw the Falun Gong guys brass banding it up in town the other day. I can’t decide are they just a harmless religious startup, or a scary Chinese cult. It was certainly bizarre to see them marching around Leicester … Continue reading

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Design Patterns

I went to an interesting talk on Enterprise Integration Patterns at SkillsMatter the other day. Though aimed primarily at Java developers, there was not a scrap of code and the concepts discussed could apply to development in almost any language. … Continue reading

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Weird Chinese Food

Nutritious Pickle For Students

Bought this from the Japanese food store in Brewer Street. It’s full of weird and wonderful things that could be food or a toy of some kind. I was just intrigued by this ‘Nutritious Pickle For Students‘ (which I thought … Continue reading

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When Computers Miscount

Diebold voting machines

Finally acknowledging how easily voting machines used in US elections can be hacked (they run Windows), it seems Senate will hold a hearing on voting machine security. What’s that? Vote fixing in the states? Surely not

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