An Almost Accurate Set of Scales

DIY Scales

I’ve written “scales” once and it’s already stopped looking correct.

A frequently encountered situation: you’re on holiday trying to bake a cake, when you realise you have no scales with which to weigh out the ingredients. I have no idea how most people in that situation would react, but I do know . . .

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Sexy French Ducks and MetroTwit*

* I don’t know how the MetroTwit guys would feel about being grouped like that, but hey, my blog, free advertising.

I recently received my first French spam comment, been a while since I did any French but I’m fairly certain it’s offering drugs for the floppy gentleman. It also mentions a duck. I can’t work that one out, thought it . . .

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3D Modelling, Take 2

It’s been a few years since I last played with 3D modelling. Back then it was mostly rendering movies of furry objects exploding. It was fun, and intermingled with more serious attempts. Appropriately for this time of year, here’s a snowman. There were also some opening books I was working on for an interactive . . .

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P-P-Pick up a Python

I’m going to venture into the world of Python. I’ve used the language in incredibly minimal ways before, but I want to have a play with the Django web framework, and so must learn Python properly.

I’m also having a play with Amazon Web Services, because I get to play with a virtual machine . . .

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A Wild Menu Appears

Got the oddest random menu popup just now. I went to Google Mail (which has a horrendous web interface these days but that’s another post) and hit login-with-password-saved-in-browser (Opera, by the way). The choice of saved accounts came up, as did what looked like a very small context menu with two items on, one with . . .

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