We went for a daytrip to Gateshead yesterday with the main purpose of visiting an art gallery. On the way there, we passed the “Angel of the North” sculpture and stopped to take some pictures. There was also plenty to take pictures of down by the river near the art gallery.
Month: June 2004
Network programming tutorial
Updated my network programming tutorial to answer a question that someone emailed me about it. Tried to compile the library on my mac last night and found that half the makefile was wrong, some of the includes didn’t exist on OSX and that you have to use ranlib on the .a file as well as using ar to create it.
Maybe one day I’ll actually finish it or maybe amend it to include Perl examples as well.
Amusing driving directions
Just been planning a day trip and using Multimap to give me driving directions, it came up with the following step that just made me laugh. 100 miles into the journey it reckons I should (driving not walking):
18 Turn right onto PAVEMENT and proceed for 0 miles
If the whole journey wasn’t 100+ miles long, I’d have assumed that was actually walking directions instead of driving.
Build your own…
…computer case! Lori found a system called Lubic yesterday. It’s a cross between Lego and Mecanno and lets you build either computer cases or just general models.
For those in the UK, Maplin Electronics stock the kits at between 30-50 pounds. Since the sides of the standard shaped cases that you can build are transparent, there’s the chance to add neon lights to make it look really strange.