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Someone in work called me bluff today, I did not know it was an adjective. Here is the definition, do you think it is apt? good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: eg: a big, bluff, generous man. »

I was in Borders the other day, killing time before the Yorkshire and Humber Python User Group’s first meeting, and I picked up Stephen Fry’s “The Ode Less Travelled”. If you don’t know it, it is a guide to poetry with exercises to encourage you to write »

No silent data corruption because of a checksum on each block, copy on write means no fsck EVER (it does not even have one), no RAID5 write hole, add disks to the pool on the fly, put volumes there as well as filesystems and export them via iSCSI or NFS »

I love the SunOS kernel. ZFS, Dtrace, Zones all make it desirable. But OpenSolaris is a code repository, not a distribution and you have to go elsewhere if you want a free distro. Nexenta looked the most promising, but then went quiet for a while (at »

I am just getting my head around this (pdf) comment on the problem at the last ICFP Programming Contest , anyone who likes puzzles, compilers and reverse engineering should take a look, I am amazed by how rich this problem was. The ICFP do not specify »

Finally got this started, not because I think I am particularly interesting but as a place to track ideas and allow folk who want to to find out what I am up to and excited by. Probably the most useful part of the site for others will be my plan for »