The One Where The Weekend Never Happened
Before I drift into a nonsensical discussion about reality, causality, parallel universes, and all sorts of other clap-trap, ofcourse the weekend happened. I...
Recent Posts
Unblogging
I’m going to start a new movement on the internet. It’s not going to be anything big, grand, or visionary. It’s going to be about not doing thingsnot trying ...
Surrounded By Tea Snobs
I like a cup of tea as much as the next personand it turns out that’s quite a lot more than most, given that I’m English, and was brought up with the cultura...
Everything Is Awesome And Nobody Is Happy
I showed my co-workers the Louis C K clip on YouTube the other day, where he berates the current generation for expecting everything to be handed to them on ...
Ubuntu Linux
Given that I work for a Microsoft partner in the daytime, immersed in the worlds of Windows 8, .
Preparing To Head North Again
On Sunday evening I will make the all-too-familiar journey to the train station, and purchase a return ticket to Leeds. The hotel is already booked, and I’ll...
Switching Off
After spending all day with my head buried in hilariously complex programming to force computers to do something dreamed up by managers at some far flung com...
Returning To Stormwind
I must be mad. While writing this, the installer for World of Warcraft is quietly ticking over in the backgroundconstructing a portal to potentially the bigg...
Abstraction Breeds Complexity
I have been working on some code today to essentially mirror the contents of a database into a number of lists in SharePoint. Normally this wouldn’t be that ...
Sunday Morning
It’s Sunday Morning, and I’m wondering what the day will bring. Our middle girl has gone to a rugby match, and our youngest is barraging me with requests to ...