Up Periscope
I decided yesterday lunchtime that having the blog name appear in comments in place of my name was ever so slightly ridiculous, so have changed my name in al...
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Memories Of Ms Dos 5 Windows 30 And Gnu Linux
In early 1992 I saw Windows 3.0 for the first time. I had asked to use the laser printer of the IT department at West Oxfordshire College to print out a poem...
Somebody Finally Noticed Me
I don’t own a car. I cycle to work each day, and travel by train when visiting far-flung client offices. The cycle route to work is only three miles each way...
One Word
I just spent the last four hours pouring over the programming I have been working on recently, after an “all up” test late yesterday went disastrously wrong....
Migrating And Curating
My phone has been sitting on the corner of my desk at work all day, quietly having a nervous breakdown. I installed the Flickr app on it, and told it to star...
Game Of Thrones
After getting in from work this evening, eating dinner, washing up, and clearing up the kitchen, I went searching on the internet to find out how much it mig...
Building A Better Bat Cave
It struck me this afternoon that my attempts to drive a wedge between the “professional” me that wanders around the country pretending to be clever, and the ...
Sushi J Pop Anime Manga And More At Hyperjapan London
My body performed the miraculous trick of opening my eyes five minutes before the alarm this morning - at 5:55am. It was a good job it did, because I forgot ...
Programming Temper And Trophies
I’ve written somewhere in the region of 1,700 lines of code this week for a client project. I’m doing it single-handed - responsible for design, coding, test...
Hyper Japan
I have a very early start in the morning - heading into London on the train with Miss 16 to visit “Hyper Japan” - a festival of all things Japan at the Tobac...