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1. Busch & Müller all weather dynamo roller

   After recently purchasing a Busch & Müller dymotec 6 dynamo, I found the noise level increased dramatically during wet weather. Going from a low hum in the dry to a higher pitch tone in wet weather.

   Initially I thought this could be down to the rubber roller slipping against the tyre ...

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2. Dymotec 6 & Lumotec IQ Cyo RT senso plus

   After visiting Berlin recently I noticed how many bikes used dynamos and liked the idea of a fixed front light powered by a dynamo.

   The thought of not having to carry spare battries and the fact that my battery powered front light needed replacement anyway, I decided to try out ...

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3. Favourite quotes

   A selection of my favourite quotes I’ve come across recently…

   • • L1 cache - 3s grabbing a piece of paper
     • L2 cache - 14s picking a book from a shelf
     • System RAM - 4m walk down the hall
     • Hard drive seek - Like leaving the building to roam the earth for one year and ...

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4. git -a -m "initial commit"

   I’ve decided to set this blog up after hearing a talk given at OggCamp by LornaJane Mitchell entitled: careers in Open Source.

   It was refreshing to hear her enthusiasm for open source but also her frankness about what got her started and what has lead on from her doing ...

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5. Just ride

   

   Book cover

   I've just finished reading an enjoyable book about cycling called Just ride, (a radically practical guide to riding your bike). It's an interesting book for anyone who just wants to get on a bike and enjoy it, without being forced to adopt a sports bike attitude ...

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6. Linux window managers

   There seems to be a lot of resentment in regards to Ubuntu desktops decision to switch to unity as the default window manager in linux. The comments by Mark Shuttleworth are interesting:

   “I admire and respect the fact that you can make free software do exactly what you want - that ...

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7. Rotate arbitrary

   Another way to rotate by arbitrary values.

   You can in python 2.x - just str.encode(“rot13”) - but for other rotations you could use the following (for ascii):

   from string import ascii_uppercase as uc, ascii_lowercase as lc, maketrans
   
   letters = uc + lc
   rotate = 17 # ROT17
   rot = "".join((x[:rotate][::-1] + x ...

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8. Running a script on modification

   If I’m not working within the python REPL, and if what I’m doing is more than x number of lines long, it’s probably going to end up being a short script.

   I wanted a way visualise the changes immediately, while working/saving the script I was working ...

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9. Static site generator - Pelican

   I initially set up this blog using django, but recently I've wanted to try out a static site generator & decided to try out pelican.

   It was extremely easy to set this up and deploy an updated blog to my site. It took a few hours to set up pelican ...

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