Welcome
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Welcome to rho.org.uk, a little web site maintained by Rob Hague
(see below). There's a variety of stuff here - poke around and see
what you find.
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Rob Hague
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As mentioned above, this site is written and maintained by
Rob Hague, an expert at talking about himself in the third person.
Rob's
homepage can be found here.
In 2002, he tried (and succeeded) to
write a novel in
a month. At some point he'll take the logo off the front page. But not
yet.
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Software
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I occasionally write things that might be of some use to
other people (and isn't owned by some
huge corporation
or other). Some of this can
be found here.
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Mac OS X Odds & Sods
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I've had an Apple iBook for a while now, an have generally been very pleased with it. I've created a
virtual dumping ground for my musings about Mac OS X here.
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Links
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This page is a collection of
links to useful/interesting/fun stuff that I've come
across.
You may have arrived here by mistake; if you're an opera
fan, try roh.org.uk. If you're
looking for Reproductive Health Outlook, they're
here.
I also collaborate with Ben Chalmers to produce the
Imaginary Movie
Database, a site dedicated to those films that other sources
seem to miss. We've not updated in a while, but we'll start again Real Soon Now. Honest.
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About This Site and Whatnot
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This site is basically a homepage for Rob Hague (webmaster@rho.org.uk). I'm
happy to receive comments about the site, but please don't
send advertising material, ways to Make $$$ Now, or
Your CV.
If you want to keep track of updates to the site without the tiresome hassle
of actually visiting it, bung the RSS Feed
into your favorite news agregator (I use NetNewsWire Lite).
This site is generated by blosxom, with
the following plugins:
- theme
- rating
- meta
- seemore
- archives (modified)
- entriescache
- bloglikeapirate
(disabled)
- fixed
- blox
- interpolate_fancy
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A Christmas Message
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Tori's parents very kindly got me a box of Quality Street for
Chirstmas, and consequently I had a purple one for the first time in
several years. For those of you not familiar with the confectionary in
question, they consist of a hazelnut, surrounded by a thin layer of
caramel, all encased in a chocolate shell. As I was happily eating
this, I began to wonder how they made the oversized version that can
be bought individually. Did they employ some sort of genetically
engineered super-hazelnut? In an endeavour to find out, I bought one,
and disected it.
As you can see, they just pad it out with caramel. This seems to be
a swiz, although I'm not entirely sure why.
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Bite-Sized Chunks
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Both Steven and Tori requested that I break the HTML version of the
novel into smaller chunks, to make it more manageable. Kind-hearted soul
that I am, I dived into the Perl script and produced such a vesion,
which is now linked alongside the text and monolithic HTML versions.
(Sorry, no luck with the PDF version yet...)
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I may live to regret this...
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...but I've posted to the web; see the links in the top box,
to the left. I'm slightly paranoid about this, but hey, I know
that it's not exactly 1984, so I should be able to handle
a little (or a lot) of criticism. You never know, some of it
might be constructive...
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Thank $ENTITY It's All Over
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Well, that's it, then. Last night, I submitted to the
NaNoWriMo website, and hence am a fully validated winner. I've
got the icon (see right), the certificate, and everything. Now I
just need to wait for my masterwork to finish rattling off the
printer, then I can go and meet up with other U.K. NaNoWriMos in
London.
(As far as this site goes, I'm probably going to post a copy
of the novel for people to point and laugh at. This'll probably
happen next week sometime.)
TTFN
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