http://www.archgrove.co.uk Literature, Programming, Mathematics. They're not so different. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:11:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It may be the case that during the last software update, I neglected to check the behaviour of a new FTP client I was using, and deleted the images folder that hosts the post images for this site. It may also be the case that I didn't have backups of ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/07/21/woops The NYT's Freakonomics pointed me at something I think we've all suspected for years - Expensive wine is only worth it if you've either trained a highly educated palette (and we're talking lots of practice here), or you're one of those people who just like's pouring money into glasses so ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/07/17/other-people-whining-on-wine Tonight's wine: A 2006 Mendoza (Argentinean) Cabernet Sauvignon, "La Flor" from De Pulenta. One of a set of staple evening reds I've used this year for when I want wine without food, it stands alone very well. A touch acidic, but with good fruitiness (a tannic strawberry to my mouth, ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/07/15/whining-on-wine-2 Today's wine: A 2006 Rosemount (Australian) Pinot Noir. Picked up from the supermarket with dinner when I forgot to go to the wine merchant, and regretted; have had some 2006 Shiraz from the same estate in the past and found it excellent for the price point. This, costing circa £8.00, ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/07/11/whining-on-wine After Windows Update toasted my Vista install last week (Twas impossible to login as the console,I could only recover by RDCing in and using System Restore), I bit the bullet and bought an iMac to use as my primary desktop. I'll keep the Windows machine around for games and some ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/02/15/closing-the-windows As mentioned, some spare time at the moment is being spent investigating the mistakes other people make using the W3C DOM API. Having now looked at literally hundreds of separate bugs, I've begun to construct a coarse categorization for each. I don't claim there's anything novel here - in fact, ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/02/09/coarse-classifications-for-bugs At the moment, I’m spending spare moments collecting and collating idiomatic failures in Javascript (specifically, failures of DOM manipulation in Javascript). This is, alas, proving harder than I expected – bug database trawling is about as fun as it sounds and, more importantly, the bug databases don’t keep track of ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/01/30/demons-in-dom As another preparatory step, the code base for this site has been replaced by the most recent Wordpress release (10,000 versions newer than my last, give or take a few). The shiny new theme is provided free by Tommaso Baldovino; I have the graphic design skills of a blind snail, ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/01/19/code-update I've been expunging some site noise recently; defective posts that link to things that never happened. I've left the vast majority of the content (even when I really dislike what I wrote), but I wanted to remove the temporal references that point to nowhere ("I'll post this then", but didn't). A ... http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/01/16/cleanup Showing off Originally uploaded by archgrove Insanely busy, but not dead. Here's a photo from last summer. When I can spare the editing time, I'll distill some of my academic writing into posts here. http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2008/01/13/showing-off