A quiet weekend, aside from tidying up after my brief attack of immense stupidity. I won't go into the details, because frankly they're way too embarrassing, but I will say that I have made a note to check all of the inexpensive possibilities first the next time.
That's not to say that I will, of course, [...]
My PC is broken. Keyboard weirdness even during the power-on self test and the printer spitting out pages of garbage during boot.
I think I have mains power issues in my flat, as that's the second machine to die since I moved in there, and the cable TV box goes funny a fair bit too. [...]
The bad news is that I just wrote a fat cheque to the Inland Revenue for corporation tax.
The good news is that it's four grand less than I expected! Woohoo!
This weekend I buy more wine.
So, that's that for another two years. By all accounts another incredibly successful Discworld Convention, and certainly another whole heap of fun for me. The only downer inevitably comes after it's all finished - after an intense five-six day hit of great friends, late nights and alcohol, I find myself in the office today feeling [...]
Mad Bug Fix Week this week, as we rush desperately to nail down all the bugs in the latest release before we release it. Which will of course be on Wednesday, my last day there for almost a week.
If we go by the last time I took any time off, Thursday will be the day [...]
Technology, eh? White heat of the revolution and all that.
Cheap 19″ LCD monitors are now approaching the price cheap 19″ CRTs were when I bought mine. Cause for celebration!
Unfortunately, all the 19″ LCDs seem to have a maximum resolution of 1280×1024, whereas the CRTs I have go up to 1600×1200.
Still. When the CRTs finally [...]
We seem to be rapidly approaching the point where the first page of any given set of search results will consist entirely of search engine results pages, which will themselves consist entirely of search engine results pages.
It will soon become almost impossible to actually find anything.
Instead, we will spend hours doing one of two things:
Clicking [...]
Here's a new one for you: “Half Coated All Butter Lemon Biscuits”.
As well as sounding like a yummy treat, they have a few little extras for lovers of language like myself. There is, for example, the beautiful pairing of Half/All - Half Coated. All Butter.
Then there's the strange contradiction inherent in the statement that, despite [...]
Biting into your freshly-purchased apple doughnut to discover that it is, in fact, a custard doughnut.
I suppose with my previous post about ever-increasing realism in computer graphics, now is as good a time as any to discuss the Evils of Video Game Violence.
I'm a gamer. I have been a gamer - board, role-playing, and video - for nigh-on twenty years, and longer than that if you count “Snakes and Ladders”.
I [...]