July 2007
16 posts
Tom Insam: I curse the early-closing victoria line yea unto the third generation. (via Twitter / Tom Insam)
Tom Insam: In radlett, meeting my school physics teacher. What an amazingly twee place. This is exactly why I never leave London. (via Twitter / Tom Insam)
Tom Insam: That went very well. Now I understand what the red and green circles are for. (via Twitter / Tom Insam)
Tom Insam: Going to a new optician. My current optician is in harrow, which is a bit of a pain to get to.. This one is somewhat closer. Hope they’re ok (via Twitter / Tom Insam)
Tom Insam: Where’s my bloody IRC server? (via Twitter / Tom Insam)
Optional catch in JavaScript
One of the things that’s been annoying me about JavaScript recently is the inability to only catch certain classes of exception, as in Java or Python, for instance. The try {..} catch(e) {..} block has always seemed too inclusive. But recently Ash found a crazy syntax in SpiderMonkey that lets us only catch certain exceptions.
try {
// something that can throw
} catch(e if e.bar == 'foo') {
...
Tom Insam: I write the _weirdest_ presentations when I’m bored. (via Twitter / Tom Insam)
I pretend to be elitist. The font at the top of the page here is “Arial Black”, with Helvetica as a fall-back. I’m supposed to find this abhorrent. But actually I can’t find a font I like as much as Arial Black there. I suppose I’m just a nerd.
Tom Insam: I got rained on. But I have ginger beer now. (via Twitter / Tom Insam)
tumblr, eh? Must be useful for something
Tom Insam: omnigraffling (via Twitter / Tom Insam)