Some of you will remember my last 101 Goals In 1001 Days, it led to quite a lot of fun, gave me something to aim at over an extended period and completely transformed my fitness. People laughed when I said I would do a marathon and now I’ve done 2, I »
My last post about automata was light on code, mostly because I got tired and lost some time doing the simulations inside the post in a way that worked in Firefox and Chrome. This was as a warmup exercise for Lisp In Summer Projects, if you like Lisp »
This post is about evolving Cellular Automata to perform computation. The example I use is from the book Complexity - A Guided Tour The most famous cellular automata is Conway’s Game of Life, a 2D automaton with simple rules to determine whether each »
A while ago I saw the Backblaze storage pod and was impressed, super cheap and space for 45 drives in 4U. I found a place to have them made in the UK (in matt black, not the Backblaze red) and though I sold most of them I have still got a few left »
Had to move a few domains and knocked up this script. It mostly just glosses over some differences in the formatting of the records, A and CNAME records translate pretty well but TXT and MX are combined in R53 and have separate attributes in Rackspace »
So, the Wordpress import went OK - using exitwp. It was not perfect, but I fixed up the problems in the top 10 posts in analytics (annoyingly most of my traffic goes to this old post about measuring IOPS in Linux) Some of my posts had used $\LaTeX$ to »