Category: Techie

  • Debugging the Borders

    2009-02-12

    Nothing...NOTHING I've ever come across is as unpredictable, complicated, difficult to get right, and downright confusing as this.

  • Tools of the Trade

    2009-01-10

    Developing a computer program of any size, like any engineering trade, requires some tools and some planning.

  • Web development complexity

    2009-01-03

    I wonder if such a large collection of technologies has always been required to write a business application?

  • Maybe not so bad afterall

    2008-12-30

    JavaScript's all making a lot more sense, but I still think it's a bit of a daft language.

  • Javaaaarrghhscript

    2008-12-27

    I'm still playing with Web Development languages and tools...but I'm really not liking JavaScript.

  • Moving home

    2008-12-15

    Dear very small readership The long and short of this (well, the short of it) is that I’m going to move by blog away from Google’s Blogger to WordPress in the near future. This will mean that: The URL will remain the same. EXCEPT…if you read a feed this will probably be at a new […]

  • Social Web – the good and the bad

    2008-12-03

    Control Alt Delete FIRST: A blatant plug for our favourite, not-very-well-known band (yes, we know someone in it) Iko. We don’t like them because we know them – we like them because we think they do really good music! They are on the verge of releasing their second album and have just released a freely […]

  • Software Updates and Progress Bars

    2008-11-20

    A couple of IT annoyances. Software Updates It seems that whenever I turn my computer on at the moment, about half of the software needs to auto-update. Pidgin (IM client), Firefox (and extensions), Anti-Virus, Adobe Reader and Flash, Windows, iTunes…it’s incessant! And it means that it’s about half an hour from pushing the on button […]

  • Getting Wii Fit

    2008-11-08

    A Confession Having finally, after many months, confessed to having a Wii and telling the world what I think about it. It’s time for the next step of my “coming out”. We, after a long period of searching, also bought a Wii Fit! If you have no idea what I’m talking about then take a […]