Category: Offtopic

  • Something’s horribly wrong with Dell (and HP)

    Maybe it’s not the most interesting content I’ve ever published, but I’d like to share something with my readers, secretly hoping that maybe some Dell or HP employee would ever get to see this. My aunt, who lives in far-away London, asked me for help choosing her new computer. Her requirements from the new computer…

  • Python’s Innards: for my wife

    The other day the best wife I’ll ever have had trouble sleeping and asked me to tell her something to put her to sleep. Since she’s not quite a hacker, I figured some discussion of what I usually write about may do the trick (okay, maybe ‘not quite a hacker’ is an understatement, she’s an…

  • Gosh, it’s hot here

    This blog is intended for technical matters, not to tell you about my (ineffably fascinating) life. However, I reckon at times I owe my readers at least a small update to explain some absence. So there: I’m travelling India at the moment, and will keep doing so until early October. Between the horrible heat and…