I decided to vary my routine and skip my morning shower and have it at work after the 3.5 mile cycle ride. Only when I got to work I discovered the shower was broken. Happily the office next door was happy to share facilities so I am clean in front of my desk. With home [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2008
Firefox Anoyances
It’s been a few weeks since the latest was released onto an expectant world. I have to say all things considered its a blinder of a release. The “Awesome bar” is indeed made of Awesome and the whole browser has been on a much needed diet, uses less memory and runs faster. The native theming [...]
Petrol
To me this is just another indication the government has gone into fully reactive mode. Another example was the lead up to the Youth Crime Action plan. I quite like the Tory proposals for fuel duty although with one caveat. The cost of fuel must continue to rise as an incentive to use less and [...]
Misc
I must have had spider senses last night. I only noticed a few flecks of the Parmesan looked slightly different after I had sprinkled on my bolognese sauce, even after soaking up the juices. On closer examination of the bottom of the cheese tub I found tell tale signs of mold. A little creative fork [...]
The Data Firehose
Via my other half. One of the guys behind mySociety has been involved with a report on opening up government data. There is a consultation site which is soliciting ideas of what could be done if certain data was released. One of the ideas is something I’ve dreamed of having for ages, even going so [...]
Captive Hardware
In the days when phones just made phone calls it was fairly easy to treat them as devices. Indeed my current phone is a pretty locked down Sony-Erricson K800i. However as phones become more capable and the potential services they can offer grows it becomes a more general device, and free (As in freedom) considerations [...]
Busy weekend
We got a lot packed into the weekend. Having taken Friday off we were able to blitz up to during the day and get the house ready for the party. Great turnout and it was good to catch up with so many people. Managed to vaguely in one piece enough the next day to make [...]
Context, Attributes and JSP
One thing that is rapidly becoming clear is a lot of different concepts get mixed together when you start playing with JSP. On the face of it it’s a simple model, your JSP code get built into a Java class (of type servlet) which is a combination on normal Java code and JSP mark up [...]
Missles everywhere
Andy pointed me to the excellent Photoshop Disasters site a few weeks ago. It very quickly become a favourite feed. Today’s example has slightly more political consequences than the usual digital nip and tuck which seems to be so routine these days. It’s becoming increasingly common, who remembers the Reuters releasing a sexed up picture [...]
Hen
Note to self. Old Speckled Hen, tasty as it might be, doesn’t make a good session beer. We met up with Fiona and Tom last night and completed a mini crawl around the remaining Milton pubs we had yet to familiarise ourselves with. The final pub was the Lion and Lamb who’s ale selection included [...]
