Steve Freeman

In preparation for my (first) tutorial at XP2008, I’ll be arriving at Shannon airport at about 7:30, Tuesday night. If anyone wants to share a ride to Limerick, please let me know. Comment on this blog if you don’t have my address.

There’s a movement started in Denmark to support later risers in society. From the B Society web site

B-persons has an inner day-and-night lasting 25-27 hours, whereas A-persons has one that runs through approximately 23 hours.

A B-person has a strive for staying awake untill late at night — for instance, to go to bed at 1 […]

It’s not every day you get to see a three-storey elephant and 5 metre girl wandering around the city. More from the BBC. Even if they are French…

If I owe anyone a response, please drop me a reminder since I’ve finally suffered a disk crash and, of course, my backups are a bit out of date. The horse having bolted, I’ve been rushing around buying Firewire disks and that sort of thing.

The thing that really took up time was the […]

SPA 2006 looks like another good year. Not least, of course, because I’m rerunning Storytelling with FIT with Mike Hill and Getting to know your Customer with Andy Pols

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This one is run by the theorists

Brian Foote has linked back to my posting and now I realise that I’ve broken blog etiquette by not providing a “via” link, like this one:

via Brian Foote

This is not what I want, this is. 5.6lbs weight. Dongles for VGA (forgot mine again this week). New, incompatible power connection.

Another year to wait, then.

I was trying to upload a keynote presentation to backpack and they wrote up the bug in public…

Update RubyfulSoup is not the fastest code in the the world, but it seems to do the job.

So, I finally scrambled up on the Ruby bandwagon and I’m intending to use it to demonstrate the benefits of scripting languages in an upcoming lecture. I’m developing the examples and gradually coming to terms with the corners […]

The system I’ve been working on for almost a year went live this weekend. Hooray!

We had a few changes to make on Monday, which we turned around within the day, and since then (touch wood) no show-stoppers. The changes have mainly been to do with discovering effects on downstream systems that we haven’t been able […]