mikegriff

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by mikegriff 12y ago
That's pretty much what is happening now in Ireland. Irish Water is asking for PPS numbers for all the children in a household and for the main householder. PPS numbers are similar to Social Security numbers in the US. At the moment Ir
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by mikegriff 12y ago
That looks pretty good. Is there a way to filter by language, or can you just order by language? And it'd be good if he got rid of the greengrocer's apostrophes[1]. [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengroce
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by mikegriff 12y ago
It was the first one I installed myself. I spent a long time trying to download all the floppy disk images for A and X over dial up. Trying to do it while on work experience on the only PC that had an internet connection made it all the mor
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by mikegriff 12y ago
And now it's back working. Some more info here, but it's not much: https://status.github.com/messages
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by mikegriff 12y ago
That seems to be the more used phrase. Maybe it's an Irish thing, we like to be a bit different too :)
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by mikegriff 12y ago
> "Some of the goals that Brazil keeper Julio Cesar conceded were unavoidable, but he was not exactly Tim Howard in goal." (elsewhere) There's another plural/singular one. It would more likely be 'in goals',
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by mikegriff 12y ago
Almost, I'm from Ireland. I hadn't noticed the wider use of singular groups previously, but that does make sense when you point it out. I suppose it was just more obvious because we rarely see american analysis of football outside
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by mikegriff 12y ago
Reading this article (and lots more around world cup time) written about football by North Americans, I've noticed that there's a different way of thing about teams and countries than in Europe (or the English speaking part at lea
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by mikegriff 12y ago
Send me a mail, I have a couple of invites available.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Only messing. I just couldn't resist bringing up the great editor debate :)
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by mikegriff 13y ago
No problems, I can see one or two bits that I think could do with clarifying (not least to get rid of emacs :P ). I'll have a go at it this evening and take notes.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
I didn't mean to belittle it all, I'm well impressed with it. Nicely explained for the most part and I saw afterwards that it's up on github too so it's easy to send in corrections for it. I had to look up Friendica and
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by mikegriff 13y ago
That's a good little installation document. I'm going to give that a go with a raspberry pi when I get home. How up to date are the instructions?
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Hmm, Ireland doesn't exist. I guess they don't want me to get one, or find out about it.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything that jumps out as a reason to use aptitude over apt-get there. It mentions that the defaults for upgrading the distro are better for aptitude but doesn't say why or what differences there are. I c
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Why is it better to use aptitude on debian? I've been using debian for years and always just used apt-get.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
That was my reaction as well. Clicked the back button straight away and went looking in the comments to find out what was said in the article.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Gah! Another site that throws up an overlay to get yout email address when you're trying to read the article. It made me leave straight away without finishing it. Why do that? Does it really have that good a return?
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Really enjoyable article. I especially like the analogy of maps and how only using a map can distort reality.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Here's a longer write up on the hardware involved and thinking behind it. It's linked from the article but I thought this explained it better. http://blog.nytlabs.com/2013/11/05/diff-a-live-comparato
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Nice, I like that one. I've been in that situation before, standing on my own and seeing others standing on their own too. But I never thought of just going up and being the person to introduce them to others. I'll have to try tha
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by mikegriff 13y ago
I'm not sure. Sometimes I find that when I'm working on something, I get ideas on what to write about. Admittedly, most of my blog posts tend to be reminders to myself on how to fix certain problems I come across as opposed to lon
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Thanks for the heads up on this. I thought I had read something about that in the past, but I couldn't remember what it was exactly. Going to go have a look at disconnect.me now.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
I've been getting that too on a number of sites. After reading the replies to this, I see it's ghostery being a bit too eager. I'm going to give disconnect.me a try and see how that works out.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
I just get a "Ghostery blocked comments powered by Disqus." when I go to that page. Why does it seem like the whole article is wrapped up in Disqus?
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Ah yeah, that'll happen. :)
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by mikegriff 13y ago
Have you tried running with a club? There's usually someone there who takes it upon themselves to rein in the speed on longer runs.
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by mikegriff 13y ago
I think that's something that most beginner runners don't think of. Endurance base is so important but also the one that is neglected a lot of the time. It's easy to think "I want to run fast so I have to train fast&quot
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by mikegriff 13y ago
I agree with this, along with sites that throw up a questionnaire as soon as you load up a page. No, I will not fill in your questionnaire before I have looked at the page that might or might not have the information I want!
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by mikegriff 13y ago
That's a good way to show standing waves, but did they understand what they were looking at, or did they just think it was some sort of a trick?

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