Yahoo Messenger Rocks
I have just installed the latest version of Yahoo Messenger on my computer at work, and have to say I’ve not been this impressed with a piece of software in ...
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Blog Version 16 Breaks Cover
After a long coding session last night, I got the templating system up and running in Blog, and incremented the version number to 1.6.
Newsgroups Defragging And Ponds
For some reason I went all the way through yesterday without writing an entry in my blog. At one point I even had it on my screen, but didn’t get as far as t...
Green Fingers And Chess
Last night after getting in from work (following the episode - still ongoing - with the huge database hack), I helped W in the garden. W’s had a bad back so ...
Hacking The System
I have spent the greater part of today hacking the database behind a corporate document management system to revise the meta-data being held against document...
Learning About Rss
Yesterday afternoon my better half W called in where I work to give me my house keys - it turns out I had left them on the side when I left for work. She was...
Too Hot To Work
One of my colleagues is busy organising a popular uprising on our floor of the office. He is threatening to throw the health and safety handbook at the HR de...
Hell Of A Week
Late last week I had a milestone meeting for the gargantuan project I have been working on for the last few months (and bleeting about in my blog to try and ...
Tarot Cards
I have a tarot card that came with a Microsoft magazine on my desk today - it’s got a drawing of a geek on it, and is called “the developer”. You can imagine...
Playing With Webcams
I tried installing my old webcam on my laptop last night. To be honest, I forgot I had a webcam until I was rooting around behind the units in the junk room,...