To expand, ever so slightly

Posted on Mon 10 July 2006 in geek

I eschewed the pub for an early return to my empty house on Friday. I even went to bed early (well if 11 is early) planning to have a lie in on Saturday. Imagine how annoyed I was to be awake at 7.30 the next day with the bread …


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It will never work

Posted on Fri 23 June 2006 in geek

Just finished watching the Dragons Den and one guy actually persuaded Peter Jones to part with ?175,000 to fund a new magazine. I thought I pop over to the site to see what it looks like. I couldn't see much. I'm assuming the site is, much like the title …


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I can see you now

Posted on Wed 14 June 2006 in geek

Work is picking up as we head to another major release. I finished one test case today which then proved what I though might be the problem wasn't. This is both good and bad, I have more defencive tests but I'm still hunting elusive corner case bugs. The trouble with …


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Getting on that Hobby Horse

Posted on Wed 07 June 2006 in geek

We have course been here before, however for the benefit of the record.

To: Prime Ministers Office Webmaster

Hi,

I was following a link from the BBC to your site (http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page9565.asp) and wanted to watch the interview of the Prime Minister. Although a …


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Dirty

Posted on Sat 20 May 2006 in geek

I'm currently emerge'ing Wine so I can run the 2.5 Beta of Skype instead of the crappy linux version they provide. I feel slightly sordid about the whole thing....