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Geek Thoughts: February 2013
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Tuesday, 12 February 2013. Green Deal or No Deal? As detailed in a blog post last year. My home energy use and a thermal imaging survey I had done show very clearly that my house is in need of serious energy efficiency work. I was intending to do this last year but working out how to finance the work proved to be a bit of a problem as I had depleted my savings to minimise the size of the mortgage. So when the Green Deal. Find a Green Deal Provider,.
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Geek Thoughts: December 2011
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Friday, 30 December 2011. I travelled on Eurostar. Against another on a different train, cannot be refunded. In case you don't want to travel anymore but they can most certainly be upgraded. To the next travel class up, as I did today. Of course, it requires you paying an upgrade price, which may not be cheap. The fact that you can upgrade any ticket makes sense because:. An upgrade doesn't fall under the. It doesn't fall under the. So if you ask ge...
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Geek Thoughts: Recycling Smoke Alarms
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Sunday, 15 January 2012. We all know that we should have smoke alarms fitted in our homes. Those alarms can be damaged and will need replacing every ten years or so anyway. So what do you do with the old ones? Chuck them in the bin? Well, the fact that they are the subject of a best practice guide. By a person authorised under section 13 of the. Radioactive Substances Act 1993. By returning it to the manufacturer,. Note that there is another type of...
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Geek Thoughts: April 2012
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Monday, 2 April 2012. I've been using iMeasure. Roughly since I moved into the new house and here's what the graphs look like so far:. IMeasure Energy Usage Graph. There are two immediate observations on this graph:. Electricity use is not seasonnal,. Gas use definitely is! The second observation tells me that I need to work on insulating the house. In fact, I had thermal imaging done recently by the excellent Sustainable Lifestyles. MaYa D on life.
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Geek Thoughts: February 2011
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Tuesday, 1 February 2011. In the meaningless error category, let me present today's effort by Microsoft Outlook:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Suddenly single at 32. I got 99 problems. MaYa D on life. My photos on flickr. My photos on DHD Multimedia Gallery. Music I listen to. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Geek Thoughts: for and while constructs in bash
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Sunday, 13 January 2013. For and while constructs in bash. When you want to iterate over a list in. The first thing that comes to mind is to use a. Loop, like this:. For f in "abc def"; do echo $f done. One two third line. Then the first attempt at using a for loop would be:. For f in $(cat test); do echo $f done. Loop to read the file. The result is not quite what was expected:. One two third line. Cat test while read f; do echo $f done. Command re...
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Geek Thoughts: May 2012
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Sunday, 20 May 2012. Yesterday, Andy Budd. Wondering if the browsers are doing anything about the EU cookie law? Would be so much slicker if this could be handled at the brower level. That got me thinking and, as I like to work out how things work, I started to ask Andy how he would see this being implemented. A few tweets later and it's obvious I need more than 140 characters to explain what is going through my mind, hence this post. At a high leve...
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Geek Thoughts: Crash of the Day
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Saturday, 28 May 2011. Crash of the Day. Received today from a colleague:. Please note that if somebody opens Build log excel in Microsoft excel 2007 and updates it while a filter put on any column, the file crashes. So please avoid updating the build log in Microsoft excel 2007. So we're talking about a fairy simple file created in Excel 2003 that crashes Excel 2007 if you try to update it while a filter is set on any column. Sigh. Crash of the Day.
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Geek Thoughts: Yodel redefines the word Safe while John Lewis redefines Eco-Friendly
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Friday, 13 January 2012. Yodel redefines the word Safe while John Lewis redefines Eco-Friendly. Last week-end I visited the John Lewis web site and bought a couple of Buiani folding chairs. I was advised that they would be delivered within 7 days via a standard delivery service, as opposed to the specialist delivery service you get when you buy larger items and who are very good. You will note how they checked the. Wood from well-managed forests.
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Geek Thoughts: European Cookie Law
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Random thoughts and ideas from a French geek in London. Sunday, 20 May 2012. Yesterday, Andy Budd. Wondering if the browsers are doing anything about the EU cookie law? Would be so much slicker if this could be handled at the brower level. That got me thinking and, as I like to work out how things work, I started to ask Andy how he would see this being implemented. A few tweets later and it's obvious I need more than 140 characters to explain what is going through my mind, hence this post. At a high leve...
