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Essay on Prime Numbers 25 Aug 2013 | 05:18 am
Once upon a time (well, OK, in the mid 70s) in a land far, far away (England), I went to King’s College, London as an undergraduate to study for a degree in Mathematics. Easy peasy, I thought, pure ma...
PCPlus 324: The history of streaming media 8 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
This particular article was prompted by the (June 2012) news that the BBC was going to not only broadcast the 2012 Summer Olympics as normal through its TV channels, but also multicast it via the Inte...
“The Adjacent” by Christopher Priest 26 Jul 2013 | 03:20 am
Imagine a prism. White light goes in on one side, and the different wavelengths comprising the light are split because they travel at slightly different speeds in the glass. Since the other side is at...
PCPlus 323: Secrets of Steganography 13 Jul 2013 | 06:26 am
Ah, steganography, that art of hiding some message in plain sight. These days we’re attuned perhaps to just thinking of hiding a digital message by modifying the bits encoding an image, but it does ha...
Endeavour, Series 1 7 Jul 2013 | 04:11 am
One of the pleasures I had from the late 80s and early 90s, before I moved to the States, was watching Inspector Morse on the telly. The episodes were longer than the average TV cop show and had a lei...
Static websites and Amazon 6 Jul 2013 | 02:31 am
For the longest time now (I see it’s getting on for five years), I’ve owned IMetJulian.com. It’s a handy website for those times I’m talking to someone I don’t know and I don’t have any business cards...
PCPlus 322: Finding palindromic substrings 22 Jun 2013 | 06:07 am
For June 2012, it was back to some computer science. The problem posed was: given a string of characters, find the longest subsequence in that string that is a palindrome. So, taking the example ‘abba...
Another Windows 8 annoyance: managing WiFi profiles 30 May 2013 | 08:16 am
I had some issues today with the Windows 8 WiFi connection on my Dell XPS 12. Short story (the long one is tedious): I was using the machine at my local Acura dealer while waiting for the service on m...
Dumb CSS: cursor pointer or hand? 21 May 2013 | 10:50 am
So I had an occasion to peruse someone else’s CSS today, when I came across this peculiar construct: Do what? Set the cursor to “pointer” and then set it to “hand”? Whut? After a bit of research, I ...
CSS3 line height is important for drop caps 11 May 2013 | 07:53 am
Recently I was playing around and added drop caps to the blog posts on blog.boyet.com. I decided to go for a pure CSS3 version (so, you’ll have to view this site in a reasonably fresh browser to see t...
