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Controlling windows from the command line
I had a window control problem on my metacentre PC. I have a bunch of programmable buttons on the remote control for it. When I press them I wish to switch between useful programs such as digiguide (tv guide) the TV software and the media centre software, which in this case is sesam TV. The problem was that when I pressed the button to switch to sesamTV, it would launch another instance of the program, very annoying.
I have found an answer in the form of NirCMD. It’s a command line program that lets you do a whole bunch of useful stuff from the command line. Because you can do it from the command line, you can script it.
After I downloaded the EXE and chucked it in to my windows directory (so it would run from anywhere) I wrote a little batch file that looked like this:
Nircmd win activate title sesamtv
I programmed a button on the remote to run this batch file and my problems are over.Labels: geek, my life, real world
Hits
Thats another year on the hit counter. 25204 this time. Thats about 4204 hits in the last 12 months. Not too good, I got 7000 in 2006.Labels: my life, site news
Another letter
I sent another letter to the post:
This is a response to Ben Rice’s comment “Why won’t we tackle Mugabe?” (Tuesday 18th) . Mr Rice makes a very valid observation that the reason that we don’t “tackle” Mugabe is because there is no oil to motivate an invasion and occupation of a rich nation. My worry is that Mr Rice comments that “Using Iraq as a model, Britain will use interventionist strategy to depose a dictator who oversees a murderous, unjust and brutal regime”. This sounds, to me, very much like “if there is a regime that we do not approve of, then we should invade and occupy that country to fix whatever problems they have”. By this logic, we should also “tackle” North Korea and China who have not democracy and an atrocious human rights record. Or, perhaps we should “tackle” a country which has a leader who came to power under very suspicious circumstances and who has subsequently started wars and invaded other sovereign nations, i.e., America. I do agree that we (the UK) should take an active role to improve the situation in Zimbabwe, after all, it was part of our empire and until 2002 was part of the Commonwealth, but we should be very careful using the imperialistic, strong arm tactics of Iraq as a model, in part because it is a morally questionable and in part because it is proven not to work. Labels: letters to the editor, my life, real world, soap box
Im a Simpson
Slow News Day
The letter I sent to the Reading Evening Post (see bellow) got printed. Not only that, but it was today's star letter
ROLFMAYO!!1!one!eleven
edit: I would like to point out that I did not come up with the headline "Give your DNA gladly? Not me". that doesn't even make sense. I could not give your DNA, gladly or otherwise, I don't even know where you are.Labels: letters to the editor, my life, real world, soap box
Letter to the Post
I have written a letter to the Reading Evening Post, I don’t know what this says about my transformation in to Guardian reading OAP, but I’m sure it isn’t good.
Anyway.
One of their columnists, Melinda Webb wrote a column on what a good idea forcibly taking DNA from everyone on the country and keeping it on a database to allow the justice system to pin crimes on unsuspecting members of the public (I’m paraphrasing a little here). My letter is below, who knows, maybe they will print it.
I have some comments to make on Melinda Webb’s piece on Mondays post regarding the DNA database.
It appears that Melinda is of the belief that if you haven’t done anything wrong then you don’t need to worry about the government holding your DNA data. I would agree with this if the government was infallible, but they are not. I do not trust this government (with their track record of failing to implement IT systems) with this data. If they where to make a mistake, you could find yourself in a position where proving your innocents could be impossible. This has already occurred with fingerprint evidence in the well documented 1997 Shirley McKie case (check it out on the Wikipedia)
Even assuming that this government has only noble plans for a national DNA database, what about governments in the future, imagine what would happen if ever a party such as the BNP where elected, as unlikely as that sounds.
Melinda says, “most people in this country would be happy for their DNA to be held on a database”, if this is true then there is no need to make it compulsory. I will not be providing samples of my DNA to anybody without a very good reason.
Note: I managed to get through the whole thing without saying “choked on my cornflakes”, “I for one”, “come on [organisation name]” and “its one rule for X and one rule for Y”.
Labels: letters to the editor, my life, real world, soap box
Dragons love cars...
... physicaly.
I found this on the links page on B3TA (I was not specifically looking for it). Someone appears to have a thing about dragons having sex with cars.
Fucking weird if you ask me (only drawings, but still NSFW)Labels: links, picture
Pikies, continued...
I have received a mail off of a friend of mine with an update on some local pikeies that you may be interested in:
I noticed the pikies have gone from the madjeski, apparently this was due to the visit of West Ham last weekend. The last time West Ham visited, they were there again & they got the **** kicked out of them & their caravans overturned, they thought it best to voluntarily move on.
Don’t know about you, but local councils should take note, don’t bother with expensive legislation that takes weeks to work, just invite the ICF along for a barbie…(Inter City Firm - West Hams Hooligan element..)
Quality !
=)
I cant wear anything I like to job interviews, Boo Hoo, poor oppressed little me.
I have just read a report in the Reading Post business section that states “Lesbians believe they have to disguise their sexuality or risk being overlooked at job interviews, according to a study today”. That sounds pretty bad doesn’t it. Your sexual persuasion, like your gender or race, should have no bearing in the great majority of jobs.
But hang on, let’s read further, this whole next passage copped out of the post word for word.
The study by researchers at the universities of Cumbria and Glamorgan found that many women tried to be as “gender neutral” as possible when applying for work.
“may deemed the job interviews as being stressful enough without having got choose whether to disguise their true identity through conforming to the acceptable feminine modes of dress” said project leader Helen Woodruff-Burton.
So you could read this as “evil big business specifically doesn’t want lesbians working for them”
Or
Some people don’t like having to turn up to job interviews “business smart”
There are lots of places in the world where self expression is great, but if you want to get ahead in life, the business office is typically not one of them. We could use as an example the Goth. I imagine that most serous Goths would be pretty annoyed at having to “disguise their true identifies” by not whiting out their faces and putting on a suit. At the risk of repeating myself from a previous post “Tough Shit”. This is *business* there are *accepted norms* that you have to adhere to sometimes. If you don’t like it DON’T WORK IN THAT SORT OF ENVIRONMENT.
For most of my career I have managed to avoided wearing a suit. I hate having to iron and I hate having to dress up. I recently had a change in job and I am now suited and booted each day (apart from “causal Friday”, how depressing). Do I feel like I am being oppressed? Perhaps a little. Do you know what I am going to do about it? Nothing, because in the team I work in, we are all expected to be business smart each day. If I really had a problem with this, I would not have taken the job in the first place.
So, if you are a Goth, or a butch lesbian, or a flaming queer mincing round in a rhinestone cowboy outfit, or a chav, or you like dressing up like you are in star trek I say good for you, I love self expression and I think it makes the world a much more interesting place. Just don’t expect to be able to easily get a job in the business world if you turn up to your interview with your chained up leather gear\ purple dungarees\ sequined cowboy hat\ tracksuit\ tricorder and phaser on.
Oh, and as in interesting side note, I was recently in Cumbria. From what I saw, if I was running a job interviews, I would be hard pressed to tell a butch lesbian from the rest of the women up there. ooh you bitch, saucer of milk for table three.Labels: real world, soap box
"The Neighbours"
You know our neighbours, the ones with the new cat who sent us the anonymous threatening letter. Well, they are having a new roof put on their house. When I say they are having a new roof put on, I mean right this second. They started at a little past 08:00 *on a Saturday*.
The hypocritical swines.
I have been looking forward to a bit of a lie in today, I never sleep that late, but I thought I might make it to 09:30, but I cant because there are a team of men 6 feet above my head banning on my roof with hammers.
I know that Griff was a barky little sod, but he now sleeps in the basement (on a futon might I add) so that problem is pretty much resolved. Besides, him barking was more annoying for us then for anyone else.
And I didn't instruct him with 3 of his mates to sit on their roof and start barking at 08:00 at the weekend.
utter, utter bastards!!!!Labels: my life, soap box
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