ARM ARM and a LEG

I'm working on an intel XScale chip - it's based on an ARM core (it used to be a StrongARM when DEC developed it) - yet however neat the processor core ARM have developed is, getting any information out of that company is really, really difficult.

I mean, they're only down the road from here, and I know several people who work there, but even though we have an ARM Development System the only way to find out how the damned MMU works is to buy the ARM Architecture Reference Manual. ("Affectionately called the ARM ARM" - ha ha.)

Unaffectionately called forty-nine bleeding pounds ninety-nine! Jeebus!

Quick survey of Cambridge bookshops:
Borders: would have to order it from USA(?)
Heffers: can order it and have it in 8 days
Waterstones: have 1 on the shelves.

Phew. Job saved.

Bedside Amazon

I noticed a blog with a dinky book image, and I couldn't resist adding one myself.

I looked into the code, and noticed that the image was leeched from Amazon but as part of the Amazon Associates package. That seemed to be a fair exchange and I signed up.

So, if anybody reads this, if they follow the "Bedside Table" book link to Amazon and if they buy the book - then I get a cut. Probably a very small one.

Titan Arum

It's the biggest flower in the world, given some technical botanical caveats which I won't even pretend to understand. The example in the Cambridge Botanical Gardens opened yesterday for the first time and once it starts there is only an 8-hour window to see and smell it before it dies. We had to go.

Unfortunately, especially after being mentioned on Anglia News, everybody else had to go as well. We arrived at 9:05pm and finally saw and sniffed at around 10:50pm. It was worth it, though.

They shut the gates at 11pm, but the people at the back of the queue were going to be there until 1 o'clock in the morning.

Broad Haven

Broad Haven
Originally uploaded by DerekL.

We stayed here for a week. Fabulous view out into the Atlantic. This is my favourite photograph in the Postcard style.