Paul Mison’s Friends and Family

Lilypond

2008-07-02T06:55:02Z

I've been quite busy recently organising my wedding. One of the geekiest parts was using Lilypond to produce beautiful engraving for the church ceremony (in the garden, not in a church). Our guests speak a mix of English and German, so we selected...

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Blog move

2008-06-30T22:51:30Z

I've enjoyed using Vox.com over the last couple of months but I'm finally taking the plunge and moving the blog to greenokapi.net/blog. Though I've occasionally wanted more flexibility, the trade-off with a hosted service is that you waste no ti...

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90s Music Monday

2008-06-30T22:24:16Z

I started working 10 years ago today. Or, at least, this Monday of the month 10 years ago. It all started with a football match and probably some beer and ended up with me and a friend named Gareth walking up Liverpool Road to an interview at som...

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Literally, figuratively.

2008-06-30T17:06:07Z

How hard can this be? Compare & contrast: Literally: 3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Literally \Lit"er*al*ly\, adv. 1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not ...

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Isaac plays with a sticker

2008-06-30T02:44:46Z

This video was just after Isaac's first birthday, in April 2007. He had recently learned to stand up, but couldn't really walk yet. He seemed to be just starting to understand things like "mirrors" and "cameras", and that the ...

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In a world without oil, where would it make sense to live?

2008-06-29T05:46:35Z

Human societies have always depended on having ready access to cheap, efficient means of transportation. The Egyptians built their kingdoms along the Nile. The Greeks built their civilization among their islands. The Mesopotamians had the Tigri...

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The Nozzle

2008-06-28T18:29:14Z

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ICANN FAIL

2008-06-27T10:15:37Z

I've never been a fan of ICANN. They're a ludicrously costly organsisation whose "authority" stems from administrative stewardship for some of the internet's universal namespaces. As I used to point out: ICANN costs millions to run every year an...

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Velocity presentations

2008-06-25T08:19:40Z

O'Reilly's Velocity conference was earlier on this week and they've very kindly put slides online. Most of the talks seemed to be along the lines of "use gzip compression, minify JavaScript etc".Here are my highlights: First off is AOL PageTest,...

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Peak travel, peak globalization, and a light at the end of the tunnel?

2008-06-25T07:00:57Z

The effects of the rise in energy prices continues to unfold. Now people are wondering if we've hit Peak Travel, as the number of highway miles Americans drove in April 2008 was significantly down from April 2007, the first dip in over a decad...

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