http://kamps.org/haje Assorted ramblings from what passes for a brain these days Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:57:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over lunch today, I was talking to Gwyn and Laurie, two of the Ruby coders from New Bamboo - I work with them on a Top Secret Web Project for work. We started talking about geeky things, and somehow ended up discussing a compression algorithm, where you would alphabetise each ... http://kamps.org/haje/glh-compression/ (If any of you are MC riders, I'd love your input and opinions on any of this) So, this week-end, I’ve spent a lot of time riding around on a motorcycle (Honda XR, to be exact, which is a 125cc, road-legal, 5-speed trail bike). This morning I handed it in and ... http://kamps.org/haje/scooter-vs-motorcycl/ iPhone 2.0 (that's either the original or the 3G version) + BookShelf (£6.99 / $10) = a perfect eBook reader, which also has a built-in repository for public domain works, downloadable for free. Titles include Alice in Wonderland, Anna Karenina, Around the world in 80 days, A journey to the ... http://kamps.org/haje/iphone-ebook-reader/ Gone baby Gone is a movie written by Aaron Stockard and Ben Affleck. It was released in 2007, and is an adaptation of a book by Dennis Lehane. It features a star-studded cast-list, including the big-budget movie début of Ben's brother Casey Affleck, and solid performances from Morgan Freeman and ... http://kamps.org/haje/gone-baby-gone/ I'm trying to do things, but my short term memory... Useless. It's gotten worse recently. I think. Why is it dark? Is there a light switch around here somewhere? I can hear rain. Slow dripping against the floorboards. There must be a leak. Is this even my house? Yeah, it looks familiar. ... http://kamps.org/haje/five-star-day-dream/ Having bought an iPhone is kind of like being in an abusive relationship with an extremely attractive martial artist. You just know you should get the hell out while you're ahead, but you always get lured back for another beating. Except in this case, you'll be tied in to an ... http://kamps.org/haje/apple-iphone-flaws/ In any conversation the endurance of the first party is inversely proportional with the insistence of the other party to steer the topic to his / her children. - Kamps / Jacobsen http://kamps.org/haje/kampsjacobsens-first-law/ Hi guys, Sorry about the lack of updates recently, it's been rather hectic in Haje-World recently: I've recently moved, and I've got a new job, so I've been a bit stacked with stuff to do. Finally, I haven't got the internet sorted at home yet, so I'm typing this from ... http://kamps.org/haje/my-book-goes-on-sale/ If you're active in today's society, you can't have missed the word 'gadget'. The word itself is confusing, and means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. How come an item can be a gadget one week, and not the next? What makes one mobile phone ... http://kamps.org/haje/gadgets-gadgets-gadgets/ This morning, I stumbled across a news story about how: 1) Last year, the top 10 NHS litigation claims are responsible for £68m of its budget. 2) all 10 of these claims were related to problems with complications in birth or pregnancy. This bothers me on a whole series of levels. The ... http://kamps.org/haje/litigation-in-the-nhs/