New Arrivals
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007My friend and colleague and fellow blogger Kola Oyedeji's wife gave birth the a baby girl early this morning.
All three of them are doing well.
All the best to the family, Kola.
Archive for October, 2007
Subversive Development
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Here's one for the Prog fans!
As a developer, you sometimes get to have fun during the long hours coding by using silly words as variable names or adding funny comments that the end users never see, but yesterday I surpassed myself!
I was helping a fellow developer complete a system which automatically built a form from [...]
Future History (Or: Excuse me, I think my brain is leaking!)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I stumbled across a link I bookmarked many, many years ago last night and (thanks to a couple of minutes on Google) managed to find the page again, as it’s original host had removed it.
Enigma is a UCLA organization which exists for people who, in their own words: “share interests in gaming, science fiction, fantasy, [...]
My Simpsons Avatar
Friday, October 19th, 2007A little while ago it was popular among the ColdFusion Development community to create a Simpsons character that looked like yourself. I did as everyone else did, but as I wasn’t actively blogging at the time, the file stayed on my desktop until I decided it was time to tidy up on the train this [...]
Listen to that…
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007My Sonos has finally been delivered! It’s taken a month (needless to say I won’t be using that vendor again), but it’s finally here!
Ok, calm down Cliff!
[Deep breath]
Apart from some funky goings on with the Mac Mini that I had planned to connect to it (strange problems creating a share that the Sonos zoneplayers [...]
Forthcoming Challenges: Stelvio Pass, Italy
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007My wife and I love challenging roads and are avid viewers of the BBC’s Top Gear programme, so were inspired when watching this weeks show, where the presenters go off in search of Europe’s greatest driving road and end up showing the Stelvio Pass, just over the Swiss border into Italy.
We are now planning a [...]
Starbucks are based in Seattle, right?
Friday, October 5th, 2007As I’m a coffee lover (I wouldn’t say connoisseur, but I do like good coffee) and as I’m working in Central London quite a bit these days, I decided to get a Starbucks card this morning.
I tried to register it later, but discovered that I couldn’t click the button on their website, it just refused [...]
Peacocks!
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007I got home from work yesterday and my Brother-in-law pointed out that there was a Peacock sitting on our neighbour’s roof!
That was strange enough, but I heard a odd noise just before going to work this morning and my Sister-in-law discovered that the original Peacock was still on the neighbour’s roof, but now there’s another [...]
Croydon Hotels
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Note to self: Don’t stay at the Holiday Inn in Croydon again.
Any hotel that charges as much as this shouldn’t try and charge £10 for parking and £9.99 for internet access!
I’d rather watch TV! B->
UPDATE:
Just managed to convince T-Mobile to upgrade my Web ‘n’ Walk datacard to the USB model several weeks early, so [...]