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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nXML-mode: How XML should Work
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James Clark, writer of expat, editor of the XSLT Recommendation and all-round XML
genius, has done it again, by writing an XML editing mode for Emacs that
doesn't suck. In all fairness, PSGML-mode isn't terrible - I wouldn't have been
using it daily for the last few years if it was - but it was an SGML editor
with XML functionality bolted on, which meant it was unnecessarily
complicated, and couldn't do anything useful without a DTD. nXML-mode is still in
alpha, and doesn't have a pretty download page yet, but is nevertheless the
bee's knees, the dog's bollocks, and almost any other part of any animal you'd
care to name (except, perhaps, the dingo's kidneys). It's based on RELAX NG
schemas (and comes with XHTML, XSLT and DocBook out of the box), works fine
without any validation, supports namespaces, and autocompletes like a dream.
Hoorah!
(It may seem like I'm getting a little overexcited about Yet Another Emacs
Mode, but I'm getting my head down to write my thesis, and hence will be
writing even more XML than usual over the next few months, so I welcome this
like a plumber would welcome a new, revolutionary sort of self-assembling
pipe. Or something.)
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News is dead! Long live News!
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A few weeks ago, NTK mentioned GMane, a mailing-list to NNTP gateway. I
never really got into the whole newsgroup thing, so I didn't pay much
attention. However, last week I noticed that the traffic from the blosxom mailing list was getting a little voluminous,
and realised that a newsreader would probably be a better tool to handle it. I
gave GMane a try, and indeed, it's far better. I'd recommend it to anyone
subscribed to mid- to high-volume public mailing lists.
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CoolURI 0.2
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I've added a requested feature to the CoolURI Blosxom
plugin; it'll now provide default flavours for URIs of the form
blosxom.cgi/path/to/entry, where "entry" is an entry as opposed to a
category.
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Alas...
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... I've decided not to do NaNoWriMo
this year. I have a thesis to be writing.
Good look to everyone who is, though. As a side note, I've repaired the broken
links to last year's "novel". At some
point, I may even get round to editing it. But don't hold your breath.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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Usually, "comic book" is a term of derision as far as films are concerned. In
this case, though, the source material is Alan Moore's excellent graphic
novel, so it'd be more of a complement. Which means we're going to have to
find a new term of derision, because the film is appalling. To be fair, I was
watching it on a nine inch screen in the back of the seat in front of me, and
the tape kept jumping, so I probably didn't get as much from the special
effects as I would've done on the big screen, but this just meant that I paid
more attention to the script. Oh, the script...
See more ...
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