Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="96"] Alan Turing[/caption]
I wouldn't have the career I love without Alan Turing; you wouldn't have the Internet, and perhaps we wouldn't now enjoy a comparatively free Europe. The UK chemically castrated Turing because he was gay. We drove him to commit suicide*. Gordon Brown said "sorry!" There ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
I grew up on Canvey Island. I left it nearly 25 years ago but visit my parents there when I can. I like to read the Echo's headlines email and was sad to see this one: Island’s flood sirens to be scrapped for good. This is an example of the ...
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
After staring at other people's solutions to this problem for a day or so, I finally realised what I was doing wrong and thought I'd better share it, just in case you also fail to see for several hours how you caused the problem. I have a page that works ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
We needed to send a couple of small documents by post and realised - while we are in the 'No Fixed Abode' phase of our Keep-It-Simple-Stupid plan to move back to the UK - that another thing we don't have in our luggage is a printer. We're currently using a ...
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_1271" align="alignright" width="150" caption="JBullet Basic Demo"][/caption]
I've been simulating the movement of a line-following robot in plain old Java recently, but wanted to try a few problems that need physics, so I downloaded JBullet - a Java port of the Bullet Physics Library. It needs LWJGL - the Lightweight Java ...
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