Just one of those niggly little annoying things that I did a quick look through the wordpress templates and couldn’t figure out where it was coming from, but I’m not a fan of the “ยป” (») character stuffed in between the blog name and the blog title.
Acadamia vs business *sigh*
Dec 1st, 2009
The business world vs academic world view achievement a little differently (xkcd comic).
On ruby’s piss poor “success” story list..
May 6th, 2009
The programming language “Ruby” attracts more than its fair share of fanboys. So why does it have such a pathetic list of “successes”. What could it do to improve it?
Back to reality: new job!
Apr 12th, 2009
Well, I finished my first (half) week at a new job this shortened week lead up to Easter. I picked a good start week to ease back into work after about 6 months of travelling and touring. Sydney’s great.
Insight into how the BBC makes their websites and a comment on making that more interesting: death by powerpoint!
Explaining IT geeks for normal people: naming stuff
Jan 21st, 2009
Programmers are strange people. Programmers (coders) know it although tend to be fairly normal in lots of ways (they play sports, drink beer go snowboarding and watch TV like other mortals). Unlike other people though they have a suitable outlet for their obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD)/anal retentive tendencies and thus can embrace it without anyone knowing about it.
