Miscellany

Hi folks.  As you may have noticed this blog has gathered rather a lot of dust recently.  My last post was back in September ’09, not entirely coincidentally just before I moved home and began a new job. Things have been consistently busy for me since then – I’ve taken up scuba diving, plus a few other personal projects that might yet form posts of their own some day.  I’m still trying to size up whether blogging is something I can realistically keep on my plate these days; I have plenty of things I’d love to write about, but the time to sit down and do the ideas justice just isn’t there.

In the meantime, I’ve jumped back on the Twitter bandwagon for the second time (the first time being a while before it caught on outside the geekosphere) and you can follow me there as @philosophicles.   I’ve also just uploaded a little bit of new material to this website: nothing too special, just a bunch of old revision documents from my student years that might, possibly, be of use to somebody else.

If you’re still following me either via the website or on RSS, thank you.  Do stick around, and who knows, I might start writing more at some point.

2010
07/04
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Python for Pinocchio

So I discovered Dave’s Web Of Lies a while ago, and was at about the same time looking for random things I could code in Python to improve my skills…

Having now finished my job at the ADC, I’ve had time to put it together. I present my python Lie Generator. It’s not much, but it was fun to make. It honed my regex skills rather a lot (DWOL doesn’t include any kind of API), and is also able to deal gracefully with internet-connectivity problems. It works with Python 3 only (due to changes to their urllib library) and must be called from the command line. I might someday work it into the website in some fashion.

I should probably reiterate what’s stated in the help text: copyright for all lies remains as stated on DWOL.

2009
09/05
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Primary aims

A lot of the time more recently, I’ve had trains of thought that would make great fodder for a (random/philosophical) post here, but I’m losing the inclination to write them down. The enjoyment of just thinking them, freely, outweighs any “satisfaction” from increasing my post count.

This is mainly due to my current work-related business, which I hope to reduce at least a little in the autumn; I’ve learnt huge amounts in this job, but none of it has been cerebral in the way that my degree was. That’s a good thing – but I want to get back to academic thinking, with a bit of an urge to go in the philosophy direction. My job’s focus on practical skills has left most of my mind not-quite-caring for long enough to write stuff down if the topic isn’t in the here and now.

Anyway, I’ve got this far already: what I was thinking about this morning was “aims” – for Life, I mean. Goals, objectives, targets, dreams… that stuff. I don’t really know what mine is, yet, which is fine – my middle-term plan is to take enough variety of jobs/activities that I can narrow it down. Read more

2009
04/18
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