With a very fine pint of Adnams Broadside on the seafront at Southwold in Suffolk. [Larger picture]
Great selection of American craft beer at the Sloaney Pony. This might take all weekend to explore…
Amusing piece on @R4Today about the digital quality of DAB: i.e. binary all-or-nothing. #r4
Amused that FT article on Anderson's 'FREE' is behind register-doodad http://is.gd/1leBT Title+author into Google yields http://is.gd/1leEn
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I am Ashok Argent-Katwala. I moved to London to go to university and it has been home for 11 years. Soon I will be moving to Toronto, though, for an exciting new start. I am a computing researcher, slightly more engineer than scientist; I believe in a lot of things, especially that there's usually a right thing to do. More about me.
This site is just a few personal bits and pieces that don't fit on other sites I run. Since I get most of my best thinking done in decent cafés & pubs, I publish my recommendations on The List.
After the G20 mess, I'm exercised about the police failing to identify themselves properly while in uniform.
I took this picture of officers failing just so a few weeks ago. This week, I dropped it in to the local police station to ask what was going on, and to complain.
I've just heard back from the inspector there.
Tagged: Social, Politics
Posted at 09:13 BST, 8th May 2009.
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The police have been misbehaving. I'm angry about that, and would like to do something practical.
I'm pleased that people aren't sticking to the supposed ban on photographing the police. The videos of Ian Tomlinson being attacked from behind minutes before his death and the seemingly brutish attack on a woman at the memorial protest the following day show that we really do need some daylight here.
Update at 10:31 BST, 21st April 2009 – Added notes on how to tag things.
Tagged: Social, Politics, Rants
Posted at 10:36 BST, 16th April 2009.
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Testing Web pages is a pretty complex task. Very often we settle for too little, checking little more than:
Those are good checks to make, but we need to do a lot better.
I want to make some declarative statements about what is expected of different pages, and have them run routinely. For complicated pages, that depend on user-supplied, database-held or offsite data, I'd like to run the tests on any pages I might ever ship, and give the administrators a decent stab at recreating the error and damn-well fixing it.
Thankfully, the CSS people have done a fine job of allowing you to pick out parts of an HTML document and then apply styles to them. Better yet, we've just about reached the point where smart designers can express what they want in CSS, without needing to write anything terribly complicated.
This is a little idea for how to do that. There's no implementation yet, but I'm looking for feedback on doing it this way. The basic idea is to express some useful, human-level tests in a CSS-like language that make sense to more than code-nerds, and use them to test individual Web pages, or entire sites, and be more confident that they do all that you expect, and nothing that you don't.
Update at 16:03 BST, 8th April 2009 – Minor tweak to the examples.
Tagged: Code, Web, Technology
Posted at 15:48 BST, 8th April 2009.
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