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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Fun with NTL
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Having spent far too much of another Sunday trying to work out where
the problem with the web is due top my ISP or Safari having one of it's spats,
I've learnt two things. One is that NTL tech support operators are somewhat
startled if the first thing you say to them is "Your web proxy
inktomi1-cam.server.ntl.com drops the connection if you send it an HTTP POST
request longer than about 1.1k", and the other is that
this
site, that Ben pointed me at last time this happened, has all the answers.
(To be fair, once the NTL guy had got over the intial shock, he did give me
the list of alternative proxy servers, but they were only numeric IPs, which
for some reason didn't work on Mac OS X).
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Mmm... Blowfish...
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After looking for ages, I've recently found
SSHKeychain, an
Aqua-integrated ssh-agent thaat works the way I want it to. Other agents have
done the job adequately, but SSHKeychain has a bunch of little features that
make it stand out from the crowd. It'll run in the menubar (so it doesn't take
up space in the dock), but more importantly it makes use of the Keychain. Not
only can you store your passphrases in there, but the agent can forget keys
when the machine sleeps, and ask you for the (Keychain) passphrase on wake, or
the next time the agent is accessed.
Now I just need to get round to sorting out an on-demand wrapper for SSH
tunnels...
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Prepare To Be Boarded...
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...For it be International Talk
Like A Pirate Day. Yar! Shiver me timbers, splice the main brace, and so
forth. (Note to self: avoid calling Tori "wench", lest ye be forced to walk
the plank)
(Avast, I be raising a flagon to shipmate
Jason Clark, who be joining me in
Blogging-Like-A-Pirate. Aaarrr!)
Update: Simon has
piratised his web page in admirably minimalist fashion, and of course one of
my favourite comics is officially It Be
Walky! for the day. Yarrr!
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Now Powered By Blosxom
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Phew. That was a hairy ten minutes or so. I managed to completely trash my
docroot directory whilst trying to move the testing and ready Blosxomed website
to the new host (called, with absolutely no connection to Steven Kitson,
"ocelot"). For some reason, rsync didn't seem to want to do the right thing.
Anyway, it's all sorted out now, so the site is officially generated by
Blosxom (statically at the moment, but I plan to have a mixture of static and
dynamic eventually). Archives are all there, but not linked to - I'm planning
do some reworking over the weekend, now everything is in place.
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As Tori was away at the weekend, I got the chance to sit
down and get my head around Blosxom.
Once I'd reminded myself that XML is a means to an end, and
not an end in itself, I started to see ways in which I could distort it
to fit my own weird designs. I've now just about got it doing what I
want, but things need a little bit more polishing before it goes
live.
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Good thing, bad thing
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Good Thing: Getting a poster accepted at UbiComp 2003.
Bad Thing: Said conference clashing with the night I'm meant to
be going to see Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Thingummy. Dammit.
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That is indeed the question. I'm 90% finished with my ad hoc Python
Script, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to use Blosxom
in the long run, as I get to leverage all of the great plugins people write
for it (and would probably contribute one or two of my own). I think I've
figured out a way to do what I want to do with it, so this weekend I
might suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Perl and try
again.
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