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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Dave didn't whack my google, but it is nevertheless whacked
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A few months ago, I was meant to be going to Dave Gorman's Googlewhack
Experience, but unfortunately had to cancel at the last minute as it was
inconveniently on the night I was flying out for UbiComp. Tori saved me the
badge pictured as a souvenir. Another consolation prize arrived yesterday in
the form of an e-mail from one Phil Bradley (who I don't know, but it goes to
show that not all unsolicited e-mail is unwelcome). It cheerfully informed me
that I was a googlewhack for gesticulating
taramasalata. Yay the internet.
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I've been Registered
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I got a name-check in The Register
today, for my sort-of-entry into their Jennicam eulogy
competition. I'd like to
thank my agent, and Tori, who pointed out the typo in the first place, and...
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Metadata, Good and Bad
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I've been looking into RDF
recently, as I'm writing an XML-based bibliography tool (by the way,
if anyone knows of an existing RDF vocabulary for describing citations
in journals, please, please, please mail me and let me know what it is),
and it looks pretty useful for a variety of things, including a
messaging/blogging/browsing thingy I've been vaguely thinking about
for a while now - more when and if I get round to writing it.
Anyway, while scouring the web for resources (there are lots, as long
as what you're interested in is RSS; I'm not), I came across a nice
antidote to
metadata. Handy to bring you down to earth if you're getting
carried away with the whole semantic web thing.
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Towers, As Far As The Eye Can See
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I don't normally just re-list links from other sites, but I found this link on SlashDot (which I made a resolution
not to read years ago, and haven't, but I've subscribed to the RSS
feed for the links), and I couldn't resist. Go programming silliness.
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Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
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It's that time of year again; carol singers roasting on an open fire
and whatnot. Last year, Tori persuaded me that it was a good idea to
go halves on a seven foot six artificial tree, which was a good idea
with the high ceilings of the place I was in last year, but a bit
dodgier in our current flat. Nevertheless, it came up in
conversation, so I risked life and limb getting it out of the loft
(we don't have a ladder), and set it up.
I'd just finished, and we were decorating it, when Tori pointed out
that you're not meant to put decorations up until the 19th. So I'm
not allowed to turn the lights on, and it's sitting forlornly in the
corner looking unilluminated and slightly sad. I'll post a picture of
the tree in all it's glory when she lets me switch it on.
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Poplee will bleeive ayhinntg they raed
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Anyone with an e-mail address has probably seen the meme that begins
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy...", and claims that it's
as easy to read a sentence where the letters in the words are reordered, apart
from the first and last, as one where they're not. It's very convincing, until
you realise that it doesn't work. This
page picks it apart bit by bit.
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