Monthly Archives: September 2009

Officially a Student Again

I’ve spent most of the last week signing forms, handing over money and sitting for photographs in exchange for a student ID card, a couple of computer accounts and a rather confusing timetable of lectures and lab sessions. The postgraduate … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Elite!

The BBC website assures me that Elite was released 25 years ago today (more or less). There have been loads of ports/re-imaginings since then and one of my favourites is Oolite. It was originally developed for Mac OS X, but … Continue reading

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A Pointless Waste of Time

I haven’t had very much to do since I finished work for the Summer so I’ve been wasting time on Hubdub (It was on the BBC Click program a while ago). Basically, it involves betting fake money on mundane events and … Continue reading

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Eye Test

I had my eyes tested today. This seems appropriate.

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Installing GPG on Mac OS X

GPG is an open-source implementation of the PGP encryption standard, useful for encrypting and signing digital communications. Think sending a letter in a sealed envelope rather than a postcard. I’m currently using MacGPG 1.4.9 along with the GPGMail extension to … Continue reading

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