Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category

The Iron Giant – the best unknown animated movie

Monday, November 9th, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Wossis? The Iron Giant!"][/caption] When I first saw The Iron Giant, I went looking for it because I saw it in a list of animated movies on Wikipedia. I'd never heard of it but it seemed to have rave reviews. I still can't believe how good it ...

Who would Jesus bomb? Lucky find on YouTube

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Saw this on YouTube, liked it a lot. No more to say on the subject right now, than: watch it, experience an emotion, keep it to yourself. OK, you can tell me, as long as you don't want an argument. I'm posting this purely for 'liked it'. A lot. To save ...

Code golf at Stackoverflow. Byte array substring searching.

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I don't know what I was searching for when I found this 'code golf' challenge at Stack Overflow. The challenge was to find a substring of bytes in a byte array, returning the start position. It cost me half an hour or so, so I thought I'd post my attempt ...

Wossis? Flashcards, that’s what!

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_515" align="alignright" width="241" caption="Wossis? Flashcards!"][/caption] I turned the flashcard page I wrote at poditronic.com a while ago into a site that allows its users to add their own sets of flashcards. It's at http://wossis.com/ if you'd like to see it. It's still very early days, but things are now stable ...

Old articles from isono.my

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I had this great idea to write about politics and open source software, and rented isono.my for a year as a domain to do it on. I decided after a few months that I wouldn't continue with it, for ... the same reason I'm not going to finish this sentence. ...