I have a Nokia N800 that I haven’t had much time to play with, but I am about to go away on a trip which will involve a lot of time commuting on buses, so I figure I should start thinking about it again. Luckily for me, this page has pretty good instructions of what…
Building a symlink tree for MythTV recordings
I wanted to build a directory of symlinks that pointed to my MythTV recordings, so I wrote a little python script to do it for me. I figure someone else might find this useful too… #!/usr/bin/python # Copyright (C) Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) 2007 # Released under the terms of the GNU GPL import MySQLdb import…
How do you spot the Australian kids in an American playground?
They’re the ones wearing hats. Despite it being noon, the various American kids at the playground all lacked sun protection. In fact, they pretty much all lacked practical clothing, it was all way too dressy. Americans don’t seem to have figured out skin cancer at all in fact, every weekend there are bikini clad young…
Review
“If you’re interested in setting up a PVR, then this is definitely a book to check out. Apress sells the paper version for $30, and offers an eBook for $15. Amazon offers it for $19.79, but I doubt that price will last long. I definitely give this book a 5 out of 5…” http://www.yeraze.com/article.php/20070603160650701
Is there any way to access the match text in MySQL rlike selects?
Hi. I am doing a select like this in MySQL 5: select * from foo where bar rlike ‘(.*),(.*)’; The specific example here is made up. Anyway, I’d like to be able to get to the matched text from bar, like I can with various languages regexp libraries. Is this functionality exposed at all in…
Apparently I am ruder in the office than I realise
Some quotes from the Dublin office last week make me think that I might owe “Master N” (as he will be called) an apology. Master N, you’re nothing like a butterfly. You don’t have wings.
On Virgin Atlantic premium economy
Welcome to Mikal’s badly organised travel tips. On the trip to Dublin I flew Virgin Atlantic premium economy. That’s kind of like anyone else’s business class, given the classes on Virgin are economy, premium economy, and upper class. It’s much cheaper than anyone else’s business class fare to Heathrow though. I thought that premium economy…
Dublin trip
I occasionally wonder to myself why I don’t blog more these days, and I think the answer is that I’m not convinced that other people would be interested in what happens to me from day to day. For example, when writing the books, all that is really involved is a massive amount of time in…
Book printed!
I got off the phone with Catherine a few hours ago, and apparently my copies of the book have arrived at home (I’m in Dublin for work at the moment). That’s very exciting. Looks like now would be a good time to buy it, while it’s shipping soon and still on special.
A large percentage of marriages fail
Apparently that applies to marriages involving goats as well. Such a shame. Who will think of the kids?