Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Powershell
My latest hobby has been learning Powershell.
Powershell is the long-awaited Windows equivalent of the Unix shell. It doesn’t have things like grep, awk, sed, ps, that would be way too sensible. It can however do everything a UNIX shell can and a whole lot more, as it plugs into all of Microsoft’s application APIs.
However, like [...]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Cyclops
I’ve been entertaining the thought of getting a cat. I have yet to convince Beau this is a good idea, and him being a seemingly typical feline-phobic man, this may take some time.
But the other day I was browsing trademe, on the prowl for some rimu timber, when I came across the following listing:
“Ooh there’s [...]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Week 1
For the past week we have been going to bed at 8pm, and getting up around 7am the following morning, as part of a 30-day sleep experiment.
Going to bed at 8pm requires some life-style changes. Firstly, I’ve had to adjust my working hours by one hour to the left, to ensure I am home by [...]
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
The Sleep Experiment
In the early nineties 15 volunteers walked into a research facility in Maryland. It was the middle of winter, with darkness enveloping the area by 5.30pm, and light not fully returning until 9am the following day.
The head of research, Wehr, was investigating the seasonal impact on sleep and depression.
For the next thirty days his [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Excitment by michelle
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Ned
At 4.21am this morning Ned The Rat shuffled off this mortal coil, his snout terminally rammed into a parcel of organic peanut butter wrapped in Mercer cheese rind. It was a sad moment, but Ned had danced with death for many days now, always cleverly evading setting off the trap, unaware his every action was [...]