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A story about Magic

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 10/12/2011 - 10:37

Quite by chance, today I stumbled across a story that was old back in my university days, a story about a PDP-10, a hacker, and a magic switch.

The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. The switch was in the ‘more magic' position.

Read the full story here: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html

Gadget Envy

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 15/05/2010 - 09:00

So, here I am, suffering gadget envy. Half the team at work has iPhones - the things seem to be like some kind of disease. Every time I turn around someone else has one.

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Google's new Language

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 13/11/2009 - 21:44

So, Google's got a new language - "Go" which seems pretty cool.

Except, I'm pretty sure it's a prank.

After all, what would the next release of "Go" be called, but "Go2".

And as we've all known for years, that's considered harmful.

I blogged about that!

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 14:00

Reading Digg today, I stumbled across How Apple's Magic Mouse works, a breakdown (tear-apart) of Apple's new Magic Mouse, showing the sensors it uses to support Multitouch.

I was immediately stuck with the thought "I blogged about that!" - just over a year ago, in October 2008, I suggested creating a multi-touch mouse to combine the benefits of regular mousing with the dexterity of multi-touch.

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Behaviour Driven Development

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 22/10/2009 - 20:59

Attended a great Wellington User Group presentation last night, delivered by Owen Evans on the subject of Behaviour Driven Development.

Really made at lot of the stuff I've read over the last couple of years jell together into something at least semi-coherent. Looking forward to trying this stuff out for my self - and hoping to come across as competent at my own upcoming presentation!

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