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Monthly Archives: August 2010

A bad sentence

Friday, August 20, 2010

What excellent timing! I have a spate of proofreading coming up, and I’m going to try to work this sentence in somewhere: [T]o correct a bad sentence satisfactorily is not always possible; it should never have existed, that is all that can be said. From The King’s English, spotted by Maud Newton.

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Python datetime conversions

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Recently for my work I had to do some date/time-wrangling in Python. We have a database containing unix timestamp values, and the front-end application needs to talk local time. The necessary conversions aren’t so complicated, but Python makes life a bit harder by having three relevant modules, three relevant data types (not matching the modules), [...]

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Games and prices

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Machinarium, a game by the makers of Samarost (1 and 2), is being offered for $51 in a “pirate amnesty” (down from $20); the makers estimate that only 5-15% of people playing it paid. (No idea how they did that estimation. They’ve also, in a belated fit of sanity, added a note to the blog [...]

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Olympus (or: What I Missed)

Friday, August 6, 2010

I came back from Greece last week, and have settled comfortably back into work. But Olga stayed a bit longer, and did something awesome: she climbed Mt Olympus. Here are just a couple of photos; you can find more on her blog. Check out Olga’s gallery for more fit Greeks, toe-curling alpine views, lovely wildflowers, [...]

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