Proof! I visited Durdle Door this past Bank Holiday Monday. I’d never been and thought it was about time I visited the rock that bears my name! “Durdle Door”, by the way, is a corruption of the original title for the rock – the Thirle-Stone. Thirle means “to pierce”; so it’s literally the pierced rock….
Durdle at Durdle Door
By Howard | Published September 14th, 2005TiVo Status!
By Howard | Published January 22nd, 2005I had a spare half hour, so I knocked together a script that will parse my TiVo’s Tivoweb info page and consolidate the recording information into a little status display, like so: The information is cached and will be updated once every fifteen minutes so as to not overload the TiVo itself. It’ll appear in…
The Library of Babel
By Howard | Published January 6th, 2005Whoa. Someone pointed me at this in a discussion about data, information, knowledge (and the differences between them) and knowing the unknowable: A (very) short story called The Library of Babel in which the symmetrically structured library represents the universe as it is conceived by rational man, and the library’s illegible books refers to man’s…
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