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Archive for August, 2009

Cadbury goes Fair Trade!

Monday, August 24th, 2009

I’ve always felt that the real mark of success for Fairtrade, and particularly Fairtrade chocolate, would be if an existing and successful brand was “converted” to Fairtrade – mainly so that the product would be a great chocolate bar first, and Fairtrade as it happens. But I wasn’t going to hold my breath in this [...]

iCalendar for English Bank Holidays

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I’ve been making increasing use of Lightning (backed onto Google Calendar) recently, for both work and personal use, and being able to see bank holidays in my calendar would be very handy. But for some reason, all I can ever find is calendars for “UK Holidays”, which are pretty useless – for one thing, not [...]

The Case for a better Switch

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

The C-style switch-case construct – used in various programming languages, including PHP – is a curious beast. Most commonly used as a streamlined form of if-elseif-else, it actually has more in common with the oldest of control statements, the goto, since control jumps to the first match and carries on until you tell it to [...]

New Mozart, Old Hat?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

So, apparently 2 “new” pieces of music by Mozart have been “discovered”. Is this the latest case of “I was looking in my attic and guess what I found…”? Well, no – the attic in question was the archive of something called the “Mozarteum Foundation“, and they knew they were there all along. But now [...]