Recently I’ve been assessing myself mentally. I’ve been reviewing the values and morals in my life trying to root out some subconscious beliefs and emotions that have been annoying me.
Through this I have discovered that I have a very addictive personality. Things that make me feel good are difficult for me to resist, although that […]

Today has started from the wrong side of bed. I’ve been forgetting things, I ran out of coffee for my coffee machine and my ass is a jandal.
But enough about me. What about Judas?
Judas Unchained - Peter F. Hamilton
Judas Unchained is the sequel to Pandora’s star, which is in turn based off of the same […]

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After finishing Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton (which I’ll review at some stage) I’ve decided to go on a bit of a non-fiction book spree since Judas Unchained was so huge and time consuming. I miss my dose of pop science.
First up was a book I found in the library by Freeman Dyson. I […]

I have come up with a convoluted way to remove duplicate numerical entries from a bash array and sort the results (i.e. creating a sorted set). I invite others to give a a better solution… but this works and that is what is important for a throwaway script:

seeds2=`echo -e ${seeds[@]}| awk ‘{if (!x[$1]++) print $1″\\\\n\\n”}’`; […]

Finally a vampire movie that doesn’t exude cheesiness. Although that isn’t strictly true about it being a vampire movie since it is about other supernatural creatures too.
The basic story goes that there is an eternal struggle between light and darkness. This has been going on since an evenly matched ancient battle was called to truce, […]