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Thu Feb 25 09:54:13 2010
A good friend of mine convinced me to give "The Wire" a try. I've just finished season four of five. This is the best TV programme I have ever seen. I'd have a renewed faith in the TV industry's quality standards were it not for the fact it stands alone, quality-wise.
Guardian columnist Charlie brooker says it best:
The Wire's so good, I've lost count of the number of people who've approached or emailed me just to thank ME for convincing THEM to watch it. The Wire's so good, I'm jealous of anyone who hasn't seen it yet, because they get to discover it anew. The Wire's so good, it's come to an end.
That last point is an important one. I'm only ten episodes away from it ending. As much as I'm going to hate reaching the end, I'm glad it will. I'm reasonably confident it will end with the same quality as it began: something which I can't say about Battlestar Galactica, for example.
I wish I'd discovered "The Wire" sooner: I think you can learn a lot about relationship politics which can be applied to aspects of your own life.
A word of advice to the folks who produce the boxed-set: a second set of Season One episodes would be very useful, as things stand I can only loan it out to one person at a time.
Thu Feb 4 09:54:28 2010
Id
Software have released a port of Doom for the
iPhone. What makes this exciting for
me is the lineage of this code. the iPhone port is derived from
prboom. Peeking around in the source code, there's
some of my code in there (p_checksum.[ch]) as well as some code I borrowed
from dpkg (md5.[ch], thanks to Colin Plumb and Ian Jackson). This stuff is
unlikely to actually be run on the iPhone, mind (although I think I have
some patches against p_enemy.c which will).
John Carmack has some interesting words about developing the app.
Fri Jan 15 11:48:42 2010
The weather in January in the UK is normally very drab, and this January has been no exception. Despite this I've found myself uncharactistically upbeat. I'm enjoying work, I've got a lot to do, and I feel like I'm making real progress in "real life" too. (It's a shame Debian has taken a back seat for the time being...)
This morning was marginally less drab.
Thu Jan 14 14:53:49 2010
An excellent Linux Journal article on the improvements made to music software on Linux during 2009:
Wed Jan 13 21:06:01 2010
I'm no longer on hold - the call was disconnected after 1 hour and 9 minutes. Yay for O2!