Nyan
26 Dec 2012 8:00
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Lyrics to “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!” (Janurary 2011 Momo Momo version) by daniwell. In these, find deeper meaning.
Read More...Lyrics to “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!” (Janurary 2011 Momo Momo version) by daniwell. In these, find deeper meaning.
Read More...I'm pleased to report that I have finally moved all the content off the old blog onto this new platform.
Because of various format changes over the last three years, some of them may still not be rendering properly; I think I've already fixed the worst of the visual bugs, but there is a surprisingly large amount of data to sort through. There's also all the tags to reinstate; I'm hoping to be able to get this sorted out as a script at some point soon.
Read More...Last week I talked for a long while about using PHP FPM to speed up the site, but avoided offering up any of the configurations files. The support for FPM and Apache is still a bit thin on the ground — niginx seems to have quite a lot of support and questions out their on this topic already. As such, I'm not entirely sure if I'm doing this the most efficient way, so don't take this as good support advice.
Read More...The design of Acorn and Mangler was aiming for light-weight and blisteringly fast — however, eventually you become limited by the tools that you're using. A good example of this is the standard LAMP stack that is ubiquitous in both smaller, and larger web environments.
Read More...7-bit ASCII and it's mapping onto UTF-8 is one of the few nice things left in in the mess that is character encoding. The 128 possible values that ASCII are mainly use for the latin character set, ‘arabic’ numerals, and the common punctuation you see on a standard keyboard.
Read More...Wordpress might well be an
unauthenticated remote shell, with a blog added
,
but it does has a number of exciting features. These include the flexible
support for ‘Short Codes’, essentially extra custom
tags which are processed server side. These formed the basis of my footnotes
plug-in, Note-n-Cite.
Government is steadily becoming more digital: we've had services.gov.uk, data.gov.uk, and legislation.gov.uk providing online access to a wide range of data. This year has seen something of a drive for getting the politician into the digital age.
Read More...Non-integer number handling in JavaScript is...somewhat fuzzy. And not in the cute critter kind of way. Some implementations of JS use a variation on IEEE-754; the standard seems to be that a minimum of 64 bits are used to represent the number.
Read More...The debate over the use of "closed material proceedings" (secret court hearings) in civil cases — where evidence that is considered sensitive or is even classified can be presented to a judge in a closed hearing, such that even the defendant is not aware of the contents of that evidence — ran late into the night, with a bloc of cross-bench, Labour and Liberal peers striving to put safeguards in the Justice and Security Bill.
Read More...So, it turns out that this week is Parliament Week, with a wide range of events going on aimed at school students and people looking to get interested in UK politics.
I must say I'm a little surprised to have missed this previous year — the website has information about last year's events, and heavy implications that it's been going on since before that. If it does pre-date my following, I'm a tiny bit astonished that it wasn't marked in school at some point or another.
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