I had a bit of a cold this weekend, so didn’t leave the house much. In fact I didn’t leave my bed much. To pass the time I decided to learn Java. As you do. First stop was netbeans.org to download the IDE. I could have just started writing the code in vi but I […]
A colleague of mine made an interesting comment today while we were getting a cup of tea. (We drink lots of tea in Patch Test, possibly because there is a big whiteboard near the kettle, or rather a kettle near a big whiteboard somewhere other than a meeting room…) Anyway, the comment was about the
Bubble dejaVu In the bubble days it wasn’t uncommon to have several mails a day from somewhere in Sun telling you about some big announcement, or some big sale. Today was just like one of those days. For a start, after a couple of years of painfully low presence in the Top 500 Sun plans
I’m into astronomy. I’m currently doing an MSc in it. But mainly I like it as a hobby, usually just observing but also imaging. Most astrophotography software is written for windows (MaximDL, Registax, ImagesPlus), the pros will use IRAF but that’s overkill for most of what I do. Earlier in the year I got a