Thoughts on public transport

Forgive me, Internet, for I have sinned. It's been four months since my last blog post...

The best fact I heard today

From an email thread complaining about stores measuring the unit of price-per-unit in grams, ounces, and units for different items, making it harder to compare prices:

Assuming direct control

A few days ago, I was messing around with the OS X `say` command. While browsing the man pages, I noticed that you could pass an argument to change the voice. And then, well, this happened.

My shell-fu is weak, so please, feel free to speak up if you have any improvements!

I'm told that Linux users can use `espeak` as a replacement for `say`, but I can't promise that you will have Harbinger-like creepy whispers.

Language and thought

I'm baaaaack!

Late New Years' resolutions

A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing Hacker News when I happened upon Matthew Might's 12 resolutions for programmers. Eschewing the obvious "1920x1080" jokes, I read on, and realised that he actually had some very good points.

Linguistic rant time

English has been vexing me recently.

To tide you over...

I haven't written much recently, as I've been rather busy with other things, but here's a piece of writing (which arose in conversation with the delightful Zoe Holder) of which I was rather proud, and felt warranted sharing.

Interlude

I knew what I was going to write tonight.

This is the life...

Yesterday, I was paid to go skiing and attend the Amazon Seattle Annual Party.

It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it...

I'm still in Seattle...

...and it continues to be awesome!

Seattle

I'm in Seattle.

Even now I can't quite believe it.