Well it looks like everything should be wrapped up by January 5th at which point I shall be officially jobless. I probably won’t add to the stats though as despite having worked for most of my adult life I don’t qualify for any benefits. Obviously I’ve been polishing my CV to bring it up to [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2008
Plans of a festive nature
It was a classic good day to bury bad news moment. I hadn’t even realised there was a mini-budget going on the day I was told I had to get a new job. Still the changes wouldn’t of made me spend more or less over Christmas, and that’s probably not going to change anyway with [...]
Lot of it about apparently
Despite thinking the company was relatively immune to the credit crunch it now seems rather less so. When VC money wants to be matched by normal borrowing in a credit crunch something is going to give. There was a fairly glum faced meeting today as rather swinging redundancies were announced. As my position was working [...]
Snow Days and Ducks
I went past a number of ducks this morning that had their heads tucked into their wings. I don’t think they were ignoring me because of my consumption of a rather tasty duck on Friday, I think it was the cold. The servers at work have been down since Friday. This could almost be derived [...]
Is the Economy Stupid?
The economy has been very much at the top of the news agenda (modulo dancing hysteria). I’ve recently added TV superstar Robert Peston to my feeds and I do find his articles very enlightening. There seems to be a growing furor over the banks reluctance to start lending again. What I don’t understand is how [...]
DLC
Soul Calibur IV has been seeing a resurgence of play on the PS3 recently. I bought it on a whim because it’s always worth having a least one fighting game in your collection and I was disappointed with the sterility of Virtua Fighter. Soul Calibur is basically more fun to play, more forgiving of button [...]
Requiem For a Tune
I wanted to listen to some of Fliss’ music that she had recently brought. However unlike CD’s tunes purchased via iTunes require a bit more work to get playing on anything other than the iTunes it was bought on or a limited number of Apple Firmware iPods. There exists a simple analog hole which means [...]
What is Rule 34?
There’s a rather nice new xkcd but I’m troubled by the alt-text caption. Google just throws up a lot of spam links. I suspect xkcd is just being clever but damn my curiosity is being peeked! UPDATE: Ahh, makes more sense now.
Downturn
There was definitely more of a chill to the weather this morning as I wheeled the bike over the frosted ground. My head felt very cold for the first mile or so until my internal body heat started trying to radiated through my aerated head. The weekend was mainly full of family things for various [...]
Batteries Included
I posted my first simple patch for Rockbox to their mailing lists yesterday. It’s a pretty simple one but I’m a big believer in trying to make the build system as flexible as possible. Also as I’m thinking of various experiments on my one and only iPod it would be nice not to nuke the [...]
