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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SilverService 0.1 Released
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SilverService is a little application
that I had the idea for a year ago, and I got round to writing a couple of
weeks ago. I've tidied it up, and written a ReadMe file, and now I'm foisting
it on the world under the GPL. I chose that particular licence because this is
something that a) I'd like to keep working on, and the GPL might offer a little
bit of leverage when getting permission from a future employer, and b) it's
something that could easily be embraced and extended as a shareware or
commercial app should someone feel like it, unless of course it's copylefted.
I'm starting the versioning at 0 because there are still some things I want to
add before I'll consider it to be complete. One is the ability to manage
bigger scripts (as opposed to just one-liners), and the other is some sort of
plugin or extension system.
I'd be very interested to hear any comments you have about the software; mail me.
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RAM - Cureall or Panacea?
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I've just installed the 512MB SODIMM that I bought with my birthday money
(thanks, guys) into the iBook, and the difference is, well, even better than I
was expecting. Applications launch faster, waking from sleep is near
instantaneous, switching between applications is no longer accompanied by five
or ten seconds of the spinning beachball, the sun is shining a little
brighter, and the shooting pains in my wrists are gone. Is extra RAM the
solution to all of the world's ills? I think it just might be.
(I may be exaggerating a tiny bit, but the difference really is remarkable.
Not that the iBook was particularly bad to start off with, but now running
four or five applications at once is that bit smoother.)
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"Best Technical Documentation Ever"
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Ben has pointed me at Why's (Poignant) Guide to
Ruby, which he quite correctly describes as the best technical
documentation ever. Read it and you'll see why. Scarily, it's also got me
(re)interested in Ruby - its full, pouting lips and SmallTalk-like use of
anonymous blocks is threatening to tempt me away from the housecoat / slippers
/ significant whitespace cosiness of Python. It's probably a temporary
infatuation, but you never know...
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