Year: 2006


  • At what is nearly the end of a long day, the mind starts to wander in despondence, toward more loosely coupled topics. That’s how, after many hours in the programming […]

  • Fowler on Agile

    Martin Fowler’s take on agile methods and in particular “pair programming”. As usual I agree with the man (aka the king of software patterns). link: Martin Fowler dot com

  • Just picked this up from Boing Boing (Cory Doctorow on the case). Australian medical researchers are suggesting that doctors may be well-advised to consult search engines such as Google when […]

  • Ah, history…

    Well not so much history as it is my story. Today while rummaging around in some old archives of backed up data I stumbled across a couple of really old […]

  • Today I was trying to get some code running on my home machine (SIP code) when I kept running into problems with respect to registering users and more specifically listening […]

  • Only just read this on Boing Boing. Seemingly the magician, David Copperfield, was the victim of an attempted mugging earlier this year. When I say attempted, the thieves didn’t actually […]

  • Finally got around to installing the latest version of Apple’s iTunes (7.0.2). I have to say that I’m not easily won over by little gimmics but this release has me […]

  • Looks like Bloglines is impressing those in Microsoft who have allowed a plugin for IE7 to enable one-click adding of RSS feeds to your bloglines account. Bloglines | News. It […]

  • I’m just sitting here at the moment watching the 9 o’clock news and in particular an article on the attitude that will be taken towards fireworks this Halloween. In addition […]

  • Today I went for a run, gym-bound as the weather was less than I was willing to put up with. Whilst puffing my way through several kilometres on the threadmill […]