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All Greek to me via Littleacornman's poker n life blog February 15th, 2008 at 18:46

We drew 0-0 with the Greek league leaders at Ibrox on Wed night and after the game I headed over to the ex's to look after Step A.Last night I picked Nacho up and taking him a long walk ,I hit the $16 turbo's slightly earlier than usual at around 9.30pm.I wish I hadn't bothered! On table one I folded AK to a shove early on and would have flopped a straight.On table two I pushed preflop with AK and ran straight into AA.At higher levels there's probably an arguement which says my shove is -ev ( not profitable) as I'm only going to get called by a better hand, but at $16 I'd expect calls from AQ-A10,k10-KQ and may well force small to medium pairs to fold or take a coin flip.I had my Aces busted by Q7 soooted in the next game and crashed out of two more before Stars sng lobby once again...

Lifespring! Family Bible Daily Audio Gadget via Davy Mitchell's Meandering Weblog January 5th, 2008 at 16:51

Here's another Google Gadget for Lifespring - this fits into your personalised homepage. The schedules starts again on the 10th January. ... [59 words] LifeSpring  Family  Bible  Podcast......

Audio Post - Gadgets Departures and New Arrivals via Davy Mitchell's Weblog April 21st, 2007 at 23:33

Listen to me on the beach and leave a comment on this experimental audio post ... (15 words)Podcast Angus Python Internet Scotland...

Finding Stuff on LateDecember.co.uk via Davy Mitchell's Weblog February 25th, 2007 at 20:34

I have spent some time this weekend dealing with problems caused by the recent domain name change and shifting some sites onto Blogger. I am nearly there and in the interest of helping people find stuff I am planning a new homepage for Latedecember.co.uk - meantime this blog entry will have to do. ... (84 words)Angus Christian Python Podcast MoodNews Internet General...

The Return of The Davy Blog via Davy Mitchell's Weblog February 5th, 2007 at 13:25

Varous boring reasons have kept me not blogging of late. The only one worth mentioning is that the domain is no longer latedecember.com but latedecember**.co.uk**. ... (168 words)Internet IronPython Podcast Python MoodNews Software...

Fast WinForms with TayLayout via Davy Mitchell's Weblog December 21st, 2006 at 12:24

Spend 2 minutes on this blog and you will realise I have been having fun mucking around with WinForms and IronPython. It is nice writing GUI's in pure code and no resource files or form editor to play with but you often have to write a fair few lines of code. ... (328 words)Python IronPython...

Creating An EXE with IronPython via Davy Mitchell's Weblog December 19th, 2006 at 21:42

IronPython has a few useful samples up on the Codeplex site - today I got the chance to look at them. The most interesting one is PYC which shows how to create DLL's, Console and Windows applications with a single call to the script. ... (122 words)Python IronPython CodePlex dotnet...

Picture Joiner 2 - Ponies! via Davy Mitchell's Weblog December 17th, 2006 at 22:30

Here's an example output image from Picture Joiner. ... (8 words)IronPython Python graphictool graphic tool christmas winforms...

Stuff : Movable Python, Virtual PCs, Podcasts and Templates via Davy Mitchell's Weblog December 1st, 2006 at 20:31

There's a few things I'd like to jot down which are less than a full blog post so this is one of those odds and ends posts I am working on the template for this site. Not quite there. ... (220 words)Python MoodNews Podcast IE6 GMail Google Groups Microsoft...

Top Seven Christian Podcasts via Davy Mitchell's Weblog November 30th, 2006 at 22:12

Some general comments before the list itself, firstly I am fairly biased against music shows. Secondly much content is re-packaged radio shows so I have slightly favoured original podcasts. ... (248 words)Christian Podcast Internet...

Now Available In Wide-screen via Davy Mitchell's Weblog October 15th, 2006 at 22:14

Picked up a 19 inch LCD on Saturday for a song and I am very happy with the results. Makes a lot more space for (Opera) widgets. ... (203 words)Internet Python Podcast...

Weekly Anime Review via del.icio.us/callumalden September 10th, 2005 at 12:00

I'm mentioned in Ep 3....

BritCaster, Rocks via del.icio.us/callumalden September 27th, 2005 at 20:40

YES! This is very good......

Another Odds and Ends Post via Davy Mitchell's Weblog August 6th, 2006 at 20:02

Data backup is in the news in the BBC in the context of digital photos. BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital cameras 'not backed up'(Link) ''About one-third of digital camera users in the UK are not backing up their photographs, reveals research. ... (264 words)Python Software Backup digital camera podcast dog spaniel LDBackup Tengo ipaq...

IronPython Disappointment, SVN and Odds and Ends via Davy Mitchell's Weblog July 27th, 2006 at 22:25

Finally got round to trying out IronPython RC tonight. I have been hoping for ages to get Kirbybase running on it. ... (241 words)Python Podcast Software dotnet .net ironpython svn kirbybase pythoncard podcatcher...

Get a Job, You Lazy Cunt via del.icio.us/callumalden May 16th, 2006 at 21:58

Owen Davey, on "The Best of the Worst"...

Cool Visitor Map Service Thingy via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 18th, 2006 at 20:42

This is a cool addition to your blog, a visitor map and not just a voluntary guestmap thingy but a counter map for all visitors. Just added this to the blog the other day so not too many red spots yet but someone from Asia popped by ClustrMaps - Hit counter map shows locations of all visitors to your site - free(Link) ''See at a glance where your site's visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! ... (92 words)Software Internet General map visitor clustrMaps Asia blog guestmap...

Value Hacked via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 22nd, 2006 at 20:06

Last night I had the interesting experience of being interviewed by Graeme of the ValuesHacker Podcast. I was all about my BBC Backstage project MoodNews and was good fun. ... (147 words)Podcast MoodNews Python ValuesHacker Values Hacker Python Podcast MoodNews BBC backstage...

Solar Car Park via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 21st, 2006 at 22:20

BBC NEWS Scotland Highlands and Islands Downpour delays solar car park (Link) ''Bad weather has hampered the laying of a new system designed to transform roads into giant solar panels. The Road Energy System RES uses heat absorbed by tarmac to warm water piped through the mid-layer of a road. ... (60 words)Energy solar power energy scotland tarmac road rain downpour...

Value Hacked via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 22nd, 2006 at 20:06

Last night I had the interesting experience of being interviewed by Graeme of the ValuesHacker Podcast. I was all about my BBC Backstage project MoodNews and was good fun. ... (147 words)Podcast MoodNews Python ValuesHacker Values Hacker Python Podcast MoodNews BBC backstage...

The Da Vinci Deception via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 14th, 2006 at 20:03

The Da Vinci Deception - 66/40 - K-House(Link) ''Dan Brown's bestselling book, The DaVinci Code is a real page-turner but constitutes an intentional and very malicious attack on the person of Jesus Christ and Christianity. It has caused much confusion among those inadequately informed about the origins of the Gospels and the history of the early church.'' ... (57 words)Podcast Christian DaVinci Deception Code Christianity Gospel JesusChrist Jesus DanBrown...

CCF New Website via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 10th, 2006 at 21:22

I have been making Church websites for just about as long as I have been on the Internet and time was coming round for a refresh for my local church's site. Instead of just tidying up the CSS I wanted to use a new CMS (Plone was a major possibility). ... (182 words)Christian Python Internet Angus Church Website CMS Firedrop video photographs Carnoustie...

New Home for IronPython via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 9th, 2006 at 20:56

IronPython has settled into Codeplex (Link) ''IronPython is the code name of the new Implementation Running on .NET of the Python programming language. It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation.'' It is a while since I have touched it. ... (66 words)Software Python IronPython Python .Net...

More Nautical Things via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 9th, 2006 at 13:10

Further up the coast is the interesting Montrose Basin and Arbroath Harbour. Sadly the level of detail is still pretty poor (though you can make out the shape) though I am sure Google are working on it. ... (85 words)Internet General Angus Montrose CuttySark Harbour Arbroath Basin Boats...

Davinci Code Revisited via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 8th, 2006 at 13:16

The reaction to this film has been rather interesting to watch. Some good and some bad. The opportunity to tell the real [1] story has been taken but sadly the existence of the book, game and film has been challenged. ... (178 words)Christian Paul DaVinci Jesus DanBrown Reaction preaching religion christian...

Stretching Your Mind via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 8th, 2006 at 13:09

This is rather fun - I won't reveal my score. Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions(Link) ''Lateral thinking problems that challange your preconceptions.'' ... (22 words)Fun Mindhack puzzle lateral thinking...

FireDrop and Bookmarklets via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 8th, 2006 at 12:53

Michael Ford posted my Bookmarklet for Firedrop to his blog. However it looks like ReST messed it up so here it is (this is a HTML post). ... (49 words)Internet Software Python Blogging FireDrop Bookmarklets...

Hurrah for Firedrop! via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 7th, 2006 at 22:13

The latest version of Firedrop2 is out including some code by little ol' me. There's some more interesting stuff coming in future versions. ... (83 words)Firedrop Blogging Blog Offline OSS OpenSource...

Scottish Python via Davy Mitchell's Weblog June 7th, 2006 at 22:02

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Thieves steal 8ft carpet python(Link) ''Thieves have stolen an 8ft snake from the home of a reptile rescue volunteer in the Highlands.Lorna Watt, 27, was fostering carpet python, Diesel, when it was taken from her flat in South Kessock, Inverness.'' ... (49 words)Python Scotland Highlands Islands Python Snake Kessock Inverness...

Get a Job, You Lazy Cunt via del.icio.us/callumalden May 16th, 2006 at 21:58

Owen Davey, on "The Best of the Worst"...