Vodafone’s customer service elves have not been very very good.
I have now been without my Nokia N95 8Gb for over two weeks and am increasingly irritable about Vodafone’s rather shoddy customer service. One assistant checked my phone in for repair, but even though...
View ArticleGlobal state in Web Applications: Catalyst’s stash.
The Perl web framework Catalyst has, and I’m fairly sure this is in common with many such frameworks in any programming language, a concept of a store of data, scoped to the current request, called the...
View ArticleNotes on new Macbook Pro
So, I got a Macbook Pro from $new_company (about which more later) and, as I believe is traditional, here are some notes about the experience. Setup Very nice: no rebooting, things just work from more...
View ArticleSome notes on style in Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind
I’m attempting to read Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind for the Liverpool One Science Fiction and Fantasy Bookclub. I’m finding it hardgoing. Perhaps some quotes from the text will help clarify...
View ArticleRothfuss and Le Guin
I recently went through why I don’t like Rothfuss’s style and noted a disconnect between what I saw as clumsy wording and pained metaphors, and the glowing reviews from bloggers and published fantasy...
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