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The perils of going to Canada
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Stupid Password, Stupid Sign-in
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That 80's feeling
Turtle go Beep!
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The trouble with matrix multiplication
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Python: poor printing of floating point
C#: Not a careful standard
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Wii hates the fire
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Slicing Soreen
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Norvig's literal instance hack for Java
Python: how is sys.stdout.encoding chosen?
Awesome Keyboard Power: «»
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Why electronic counting failed
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Learning J - Part III
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Secrets of Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
Behold the colour purple
Awesome Shell Power: 2>&1 | tee ...
RFID tags in bullets
Awesome Shell Power: */.
Stupid top-level nested classes, stupid Java.
Learning J - Part II
Learning J - Part I
sizeof(char) is 1
Learning my multiplication tables in J—again
The sorry state of science reporting
Subclassing java.awt.Paint
The perils of multiple-value-prog1
Stupid const, stupid mutable, stupid C++
Stupid colour, stupid slime, stupid emacs
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2 Player Settlers of Catan
2-bit dither
700,000,000,000 USD
8 legs better than 6
A judgement on DNA
A little programming puzzle: /=
A Logo turning coincidence
A small matter of Unix security
A use for uncompressed PNGs
Abuses of Lambda, by Design
Anonymous things in Python
Apple's 2-bit PNG fail
Awesome Keyboard Power: «»
Awesome Shell Power: */.
Awesome Shell Power: 2>&1 | tee ...
Awesome Shell Power: stupid z trick
Awesome Shell Power: yes '' | head | nl -ba
Background Checks For Our Corporate Citizens
Bad Style Dream
BBC: don't know their GDP from their elbow
BBC: remove errors bars for better headline
Behold the colour purple
Brake with your left foot
C#: Not a careful standard
C: prefer f(...) over (*f)(...)
C: return and parentheses
calloc when multiply overflows
Canadian foetal gender
Code Monk recalls PyCon UK
Code Monk's Bonanza Give-Away!
Convert Plan 9 images to PNG
Curly Logo and The Dragon
Curly Logo News
Curly Logo now on Safari 3
Curly Logo: Wii Edition
Dealing dog death
DEFRA promotes bovine TB in herds
Dither and Gamma
double puzzle: the next floor
Earth, again
Embedding Lua in 5 Minutes
EuroPython 2009
Extreme Pedantry For The Win!
Filling in the CRB form
Fortran: can't get no leading zero
Four candles!
Frank C. Weiler asks me about emacs color
Fritz asks about C structure types
Hiragana practice grid
How Curly Logo decides on arity
How to solve any (anthropogenic) problem
I crush OptiPNG!
I learn Python
Image processing in J
Introduction to Functional Programming (UKUUG type)
Introduction to Functional Programming in Python
Iverson's Convention, or what is the value of x < y?
JavaScript: Bitmap Editing
Javascript: coercing to signed integer
JavaScript: Functions are Constructors are Functions
Javascript: switch
JavaScript: using numbers as table keys considered harmful
Learning J - Part I
Learning J - Part II
Learning J - Part III
Learning J - Part IV
Learning my multiplication tables in J—again
Light a Candle
Lisp: coerce float to rational
Logo Cardioid
Lost Searchers
Microsoft don't use VSS?
Microsoft not patenting enough
Microsoft's Wireless Keyboard Encryption
multiple-value-constantly
Multiplication, Addition, Counting, and Python
My 2p's worth
My Battle with Metroids
My laptop bag
My PyCon UK talks
My Python Dream About Groups
My Water Bill
Norvig's literal instance hack for Java
Obscure video games
Ofsted: satisfactory doublethink
OS X and X11
PNG filtering for small bit depths
PNG with palettes
Putting the Heat on Wheat
Python and bragging about C89
Python Long Masks
Python module for PNG
Python: dictionary of functions
Python: Documenting Higher-Order Artefacts
Python: how is sys.stdout.encoding chosen?
Python: integer, int, float
Python: Iterating and Mutating Dictionary
Python: perils of «x is 1»
Python: poor printing of floating point
Python: short range xrange
Python: sign of nothing
Python: Some Naughty Features
Python: Tail Call Optimisation
Python: where is your colon?
Quality Improvement Agency, improving the 404
Reactionary twat!
RFID tags in bullets
SBCL used in e-counting
Secrets of Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
Shell programming: The fu example
sizeof(char) is 1
Slicing Soreen
Stupid colour, stupid slime, stupid emacs
Stupid const, stupid mutable, stupid C++
Stupid keyboard, stupid shift; a proposal for better key sensing
Stupid Password, Stupid Sign-in
Stupid top-level nested classes, stupid Java.
Subclassing java.awt.Paint
Tabs: Stupid, Wrong, Intolerable
Taking Climate Change Seriously
Talk about Python
TextEdit margin hacking
That 80's feeling
The glorious twelfth
The GNU GPL is not an EULA!
The music of substance abuse
The odd/even operator precedence hack
The perils of going to Canada
The perils of multiple-value-prog1
The smallest number
The sorry state of science reporting
The trouble with Alpha
The trouble with matrix multiplication
The use of blah (_), aka underscore
Tony Hoare, man of Science
Turtle go Beep!
Unredeemed by Cate's boots
URL Scraping
Using the RFC 2397 "data" URL scheme to micro-optimise small images
Vote Different
Warning: Generation Green could be in a classroom near you!
Watchmen on the ice shelf
What Good is PyPNG? (and some MDIS pictures of Earth)
What I did on my holiday (Metroid II)
Why electronic counting failed
Wii hates the fire
Wii love Endless Ocean
Wii wait
Writing JavaScript for JsMin
Xbox sales
Ye Olde Thorn
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The perils of going to Canada

2008-02-08

I went to Canada and Jeremy Beadle died! Oh My Gosh! I only just found out, why did no-one tell me?

Obligatory XKCD cartoon.

This entry was posted on 2008-02-08 at 12:29:05 and is filed under rant.

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