My name is…
…Slim ShadyDaniel Silverstone. I just thought I’d take this opportunity to back Martin F. Krafft up on the point of names and IRC. Those of you who know me on IRC know me as Kinnison. There exists exa…
Google Summer of Code…
The Google Summer of Code is upon us once more, and this year two projects dear to my heart are involved as mentoring groups. The first and perhaps most obvious is Debian but a less well known but equ…
Why I might 'support' Ubuntu more this year…
…or “How much does it cost to fly to Argentina? Fuff that!” The Ubuntu developer summit (UDS-Intrepid) is in Prague this year. The Debian Developer conference (Debconf) is in Argentina (at Mar del Pla…
Ficlets…
Via Lesley Mitchell I was pointed at Wil Wheaton’s ficlets page and unfortunately for the world, I was inspired to contribute three original ficlets to the site. As a result, please visit my ficlets p…
Dear lazyweb…
I am in need of a C parser which I can use to detect violations of a coding standard. Particularly it must be able to be sensitive to comments (the internals of which are important also) and whitespac…
Cats can be odd…
My cat appears to like cola and also twiglets. Did I get a defective model?
New home phone number.
If you happen to have my landline number (starts 0161) then it’s important to know that it has changed. In order to know the new one, either ask me by email, ring me on my mobile phone, or follow thes…
Entropy for exim4, or just a bad idea?
Ingo Juergensmann recently asked if there is a way to get more entropy for exim4 for a way to make exim4 take less entropy. A while ago I posted my solution which grabbed the imagination of Steve Gran…
Dear lazyweb…
Who is to say how large a potato can be? Does this koan have the budda nature? If a monkey falls from a tree, can a fruitarian eat it? Kthnxbye, Daniel