Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Among the old computers that end up on my desk is a Pentium MMX 233MHz PC from ... I don't know, the dawn of time, probably. It can't have been made any later than late 1990s. I use it for testing code behaviour on low-resource systems. It did have Slackware ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
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'Animals' is currently a very short flashcard set. The issue of image copyright is bothering me. I used WikiMedia Commons for the images in these flashcards, but it required a bit of brute-force searching to find images that were totally unencumbered by copyright. Most of ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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It required a bit more work than I was expecting, but wossis.com now has a shiny new Atom feed for updated cardsets. Atom is a format and protocol for providing news (the 'feed') about a website. You may have seen the little ...
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
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This isn't the most exciting of flashcard sets ever! I wanted something to test a lot of work I'd done behind the scenes with Spinneret (the webserver that wossis.com is built on). It was a good test - it broke it! There was ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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I was so excited when I heard about there was going to be a partial solar eclipse visible in Malaysia today. It was an annular eclipse in some places, such as this photograph taken from The Malaysian Insider ...
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