Monthly Archives: April 2003

Weather Parser

UPDATE: Sorry but this was written ages ago and the weather parser has stopped working now. I thought about keeping the code posted here but there is no point as it’s so outdated and there are so many newer methods … Continue reading

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I’ve gone weather mad!

Blimey, some people who know me know that I tend to obsess sometimes over things. In the same vein, I’ve positively gotten obsessed with the weather, obtaining latest readings, parsing them, storing them, displaying them, the works. So yesterday I … Continue reading

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Weather feed

I’ve added an hourly weather feed to the site, using PHP Weather. I had to use the older version 1.x series as it is easier to use at the moment anyway. I wasted too much time struggling with the 2.x … Continue reading

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London Marathon 2003

Yay! The London Marathon is about to start in about 5 minutes, I’m watching it live on TV. I’ve been interested in the Marathon and running in general since I started running about 2 months ago. I’ve gone slack in … Continue reading

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Code reviews and Peer Programming

Kasia has been trying out code reviews/pair programming at her work and I do tend to agree that code reviews should be done and that they probably result in better code, i.e. code that is less full of bugs We … Continue reading

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Weblogging, Journalism and the future

I’ve been thinking a lot about weblogs recently, having started one of my own. After reading several of them I began to wonder what the general media thinks about them, since they allow people to skirt around the news issues … Continue reading

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SARS

We temporarily have a second modem now, still waiting for DSL. It should already be set-up now, we just need to set-up our network for it (gateways, firewalls, etc). Dan gillmor has an interesting piece on how news about the … Continue reading

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Moveable Type!

I finally migrated the weblog to Moveable Type. It wasn’t easy, I had a lot to figure out and the biggest problem was fixing the layout of the site. I’m using a 3-column layout and I’ve noticed that most other … Continue reading

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Office madness

Been quite mad in the office the past few days since the move. Things are still not all organized yet, such as the ADSL connection, networking cables, etc. Everyday we come in and get distracted from work slightly. I just … Continue reading

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