iTunes Match for TV Shows is horribly broken

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I was quite excited, after install iTunes 10.6, to see that a fair few of my TV shows show up as being available for “re-download”.  Silly me for assuming that meant they were available in 1080p as promised.  Some are.  Most aren’t.  iTunes happily downloads them again, with no way for me to tell ahead… Read more

Squaw

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Each year my department at Google runs a ski trip. Just for fun. Well, there’s a obligatory dinner with a raffle and the usual sort of stuff like that, but otherwise actual fun. This year it’s at Squaw. I’ve been to Squaw once before, but only for dinner; never skiied, on the basis that it’s… Read more

Finally rode into work

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It’s hard to make excuses for not doing it, now that winter is largely passed, and Marisa rides with me. :) The only downside is that she then has to ride home by herself. It’s a shame there’s not a decent breakfast joint anywhere near work (Google cafes, being “free”, aren’t open to friends and… Read more

Ride to Stanford University

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Marisa & I have been riding a little bit, for a few months now. We try to go at least once a week, generally on weekends. Today we rode to Stanford University, and then around the campus. Marisa hadn’t really been there before. It was quite a nice, sunny day, perfect for riding. We happened… Read more

iCloud documentation is crap

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I’ve been trying to make use of iCloud in an iOS app over the last couple of weeks, and it’s been absolutely infuriating.  There’s a large volume of documentation, but it’s not very good, and it’s incomplete.  So let’s run down the laundry list: Entitlements Getting the entitlements to work is, in general, an incredible… Read more

Python

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One good thing about working at Google has been that I’ve finally learnt Python. Properly. Which means I can whip up, in just a couple of minutes, a tested & documented script to, say, replace ~2,500 HTML files with redirects. So now anyone using an old link to any HTML page under https://homepage.mac.com/wadetregaskis will get… Read more