Author Archives: conor

OSX dd Dead Slow

I’ve been writing to SD cards a bit lately while mucking around with a Raspberry Pi and a few other boards. This involves using dd to write a disk image directly onto the SD card. Whenever I do this, it … Continue reading

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F1 2012

Looking forward to another interesting F1 year. 2010 was a cracking season. Although 2011 was less interesting from a championship perspective, I was still quite interested in all the races. I think DRS and the Pirelli tyres did the job … Continue reading

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F1 2010

So F1 is about to start for 2010! It’s shaping up to be an interesting year. I’m hoping for most of the action to be on track this year. Maybe there will be some overtaking Of course, there is already … Continue reading

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Grayling and Dawkins Lecture

A few of us went along to day to the A C Grayling and Richard Dawkins’ lectures at the Sydney Opera House today. There’s something sublime about an English Professorial lecture.

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CSS Pain

I decided to update my blog look and feel. I normally don’t play much in the UI space but I figured I’d have a crack at it to improve my skills. After mucking around with float:left, auto margins and friends, … Continue reading

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