UNC vs Duke

Poker

Our neighbor has invited me to his monthly poker evening. The only problem is that I don't know how to play. I have month to learn enough to not look an idiot.

Photos

This should be a photo slideshow linked to picassa.

Tag cloud

I got fed up with not beign able to find things I'd noted down here, so I added the ubiquitous tag cloud, using these instructions.

American TV

So it turns out that the best thing about American TV is that there are so many adverts (which are a special type of annoying) that you *really* have to want to watch something in order to put up with it. Even BBC America . On a lot of the minor channels where we sometimes watch college sport, the advertisers obviously don't have a large marketing budget. So they JUST SHOUT and hope you'll buy the product. I guess it must work. We don't watch a lot of TV.

I heard from a bloke in the pub that a lot of people download their TV from usenet. I'm not surprised.

One blog per week

According to my favourite blog, Coding Horror the path to blog greatness is to set a schedule and stick to it. It has to be said that I am not the worlds best at sticking to things. Our bookshelf as at least three books that I started and never finished. Since nobody outside my family and friends really cares what I do on a day-to-day basis - unless I happen to win the lottery in the next year I don'thttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif expect the readership to exceed... more than a handfull. However, I think it's worth keeping a journal even if it's only for myself. Lots of folks are currently using facebook - and once the novelty of the apps has worn off, the real interest in facebook - for me at least is to see what people are up to (Status updates) and seeing their photo's. I don't see why blogs and things like 'twitter' couldn't do the same thing but using a more open platform. It will be interesting to see what happens with facebook during the coming year - it's currently very hot.

ksh script template

Here's a nice little exampel of how to write and comment shell scripts.

#!/bin/ksh

#
#Display a usage message
#
usage() {
        echo "usage: "
}

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] ; then
        usage
        exit 1
fi

#
#Process command line options
#
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
  case $1 in
  -m)   REGMODEL=$2
        shift
        ;;
  -t)   REGTEST=$2
        shift
        ;;
  -p)   REGPROTO=$2
        shift
        ;;
  -b)   REGBLD=$2
        shift
        ;;
  -months) MONTHS_TO_Q=$2
        shift
        ;;
  -h)   help=true
        ;;
  -burt)        BURT=1
        ;;
  -graph)       GRAPH=1
        ;;
  -error)       ERROR=1
        ;;
  -all)         ALL=1
        ;;
  -*)   echo $0 $1: Unrecognised option >&2
        ;;
   *)   ;;
 esac
 shift
done