Recently I found that some Internet services were broken on my friends home connection. After some digging around I found that his connection was being hijacked by Virgin Media whenever a target server did not exist. Rather than following basic Internet protocols Virgin Media hijack the connection so that they can advertise themselves and sponsored [...]
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After playing around with the super keyworld in Python, I finally stumbled across this question which helped explain some multiple inheritence, with arguments. This also helped me to understand the use of super in Python and how to whole thing links together. I edited the original answer to the question as I found Python complaining [...]
Congratulations to the LHC for making history today. Fingers crossed they’ll find what they’re looking for (and lots of things that they weren’t)! Exciting stuff, even for us non-physics bods!
I recently upgraded to Kubuntu Karmic and since it’s so shiny (I’m a sucker for a bit of eye candy…so long as it doesn’t get in my way) I decided to try my hand at making a widget. Now, I’ve tinkered with this before and made a widget that gets a fortune but that was [...]
Lately I’ve been using DeviceKit via DBus in Python as part of my work. The DeviceKit documentation is actually pretty good but I have found that it lacks examples. I’ve had trouble finding much via Google either so I thought it might be nice to post up some short blog articles as I find things [...]
I’ve installed WordPress and decided to move the site onto it. While I love messing around with web technologies I never get around to finishing things and this way I get to have a shiny web site while still having room to play! Last night I tried out WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Joomla suggested I [...]
