wade womersley – york based software engineer
wade womersley – york based software engineer
In what will surely spark controversy and complaints around the world, Canada has just become the latest country to allow assisted suicide from a doctor for those who are terminally ill or in severe pain and will be for the rest of their lives. On Thursday, 14th April, 2016, Justin Trudeau introduced legislation to move … Read More “Canada Legalises Assisted Suicide” »
Our Russian exchange student, Suckmeoff, approves. Do not fall asleep if you’re Ontop. Pray to god you don’t catch Herpes in the corridor.
From what I can gather, the best deal in the UK at the moment for HTC’s flagship for the HTC 10 is from Carphone Warehouse via Vodafone due to their £50 check cashback for pre-orders. But it’s not just that, it’s the £52 cashback if you go via TopCashBack.com that makes it the £102.50 off your … Read More “Best deal on the HTC 10 in the UK so far – Vodafone 4GB 10GB 2.5 months free!” »
When is a brick in a washing machine not enough? Why when you can put a brick in a washing machine on a trampoline of course! It almost feels like a cartoon (not quite lifelike but lifelike enough movement).
I love my Pi2 and my Pi3, they’re amazing pieces of cheap kit I can do anything with – although to be honest I don’t use them anywhere near as much as I should. So here is a compilation of things I found useful this last week when I finally got around to building my … Read More “Useful tidbits for Raspberry pi users on Raspian – aka things I wish I knew quicker/easier” »
I’m sure a lot of you have heard our sorely out-of-the-times member of parliament Theresa May wants to give UK police to request users internet history + search queries without a warrant at any time. I for one am not a fan of a nanny state and especially not one that believes this is somehow … Read More “How to make the governments attempts to view your search history that bit harder (in Chrome)” »
The next time anyone mentions anything to do with America and refusing to accept gay marriage, straight marriage or any marriage between two people – particularly those people in government jobs, please just point them to the first amendment page on Wikipedia and quote: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free … Read More “America, religion, marriage for all and why those who disagree are not American” »
In what I can cool but many will call scary, Google has released Timeline which basically allows you to stalk yourself, quoting from the announcement on the Google blog: Have you ever wanted a way to easily remember all the places you’ve been — whether it’s a museum you visited during your last vacation or that … Read More “Google Maps – now with Timeline” »
Christopher Lloyd and Michael J.Fox (Universal) Yup, Back to the Future is coming back to cinemas (hopefully across the country) on October 21st 2015 alongside the launch of several box sets including the movies, the animated series, extra content, a light up flux capacitor, behind the scenes footage and more. October 21st is the date … Read More “Back to the … Theatres” »
Really short post this one on indexing using Cloudant Query to index arrays in your document, e.g. documents that have a field like this: { “ids”: [ “alpha”, “bravo”, “charlie” ] } I was reading the documentation and just could not get it to index these items using anything but the default _all_docs indexer (don’t use … Read More “Cloudant (IBM) Query – Indexing arrays directly using Erlang” »
