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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Friday Morning Grab-Bag
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I've come across a couple of interesting things on my daily
trawl through the web. The first is a nice article entitled
"Top Ten MacOS X Tips for Unix Geeks" at the O'Reily
website. A tie in with their "OSX for Unix Geeks" book (which
I've not seen much of), it starts of with the mind-boggling
trivial ("You can find the Terminal application by navigating
to /Applications/Utilities in the Finder. Drag the
Terminal application to your dock so you can access it
quickly."), but by hint 3 is giving you quite useful tips on
substantial stuff like Startup items and /etc. The
second was
this hint at macosxhints.com about
getting an iBook to drive two monitors in true PowerBook
fashion. I think that my iBook is one of the qualifying
models, but given the dire yet plausible horror stories about
a botched hack permanently wrecking the firmware, I'm not
going to try it until I need to.
In other news, Bluetooth is working like a charm; I've been
using it to transfer VCards to and from my phone, and check my
mail while sitting waiting for a Neal Stephenson (yes, that's
Neal Stephenson) talk to start. I got the modem scripts
from www.taniwha.org.uk, and
setting it up was fairly straightforwards; mail me if you'd
like more details.
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Apple Destroys Trees - Film At 11
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I've just taken delivery of a
D-Link
Bluetooth adaptor, which I can use with my
Nokia 6310i
to get a dialup connection while I'm sitting on a train back
from Nottingham. Anyway, if you follow the link, you'll see
that it's a dinky little dongle-like device, about
45x16x8mm. It came in a box with the standard page-and-a-half
"this is what a USB port looks like" user guide, repeated in a
dozen languages. That box was rattling around inside a
350x250x200mm box, presumably provided by the courier. So,
assuming that the recipient knows how to plug a USB connector
in to a USB port, then we could fit 2,625 Bluetooth adaptors
into the box, and still have space left. That seems a little
wasteful.
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Added UnityWiki
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I wanted to set up a
Wiki so that a group of
us could collaborate on designing a role-playing game
setting. As I wanted something easy to install, I chose
PikiPiki
(MoinMoin has a lot
more features, but is a lot more complex and requires distutils,
which wasn't installed on the target machine). Anyway, I've
hacked the script around to add a couple of nice features and
tidy things up, and then
Ben
asked for CVS access as he wanted to make some improvements and
install it at work. So, I set up a SourceForge project, and
hence world+dog can now download the source and fiddle with
it. See the box to the left for details.
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NaNoWriMo - I Must Be Mad
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A while ago,
Ben mentioned
NaNoWriMo - that's
National Novel Writing Month. The idea is to write a 50,000
word novel in November. Against my better judgement, I've
signed up, and I'll be posting updates somewhere
on the site. Watch this space (or take the vastly more popular
route, and don't).
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You Learn Something New Every Day
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Today's question: what exactly is a pretensioner?
Well, it's...
- A large, complicated and difficult to fit gadget
that sits under your seat and pulls the seatbelt tight
when you have a crash
(www.howstuffworks.com)
Apparently, Corsa ones come with explosives in them.
- Bloody expensive.
- Fairly essential in a "not dying while driving down
the A1 to Nottingham" way, particularly if your seatbelt
is prone to spontaneously popping out of the holder at
inopportune moments, such as when you're pulling in to the
outside lane.
Educational, isn't it?
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Things That Stop Me Doing Work On Monday
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In case you've not seen it, look at
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About.
Not only is it "laugh until you shake and people walking past your
office think you're insane" funny, but the author got into a legal
argument with The Mail On Sunday, and he's friends with a load of
ex-staffers from Amiga Power.
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