A project that wasn’t on my last from earlier in the week is the idea that was going to go on inappropriatetouching.com, which I registered back in September. The idea was derived from Paul Wilson‘s idea for a web site to resolve beer debts. You know how you post to Twitter going ‘Argh, Thing X [...]
I guess like many a geek, I’ve a laundry list of half-started or only-exists-in-my-head projects. Every year I decide I’m going to work on them more, and then I don’t really. (See: last year, the year before that, and the year before THAT.) So, in keeping with tradition I’m going to come up with another [...]
This last weekend I assembled the exercise bike and actually started to use it and record data on fatfuckingbastard.com. After settling in to using it every day, today – the fifth day of using it – the thing went ‘clunk’ and stopped feeding data to the ‘trip computer’. Annoyingly it did this at four minutes [...]
If you’ve met me, you might’ve noticed that I’m a massive fat cunt. This has been the case for all of my life, and I’m mostly happy with it. It keeps me warm in winter and if I fall overboard on a boat I’ll float. What I’m so not happy about is my level of [...]
Last year I decided to do something about being such a picky eater. What I did was drink orange juice. And it worked, I no longer dislike orange juice, and will tend to grab a bottle of it to drink with my breakfast when I’m out and about. At this year’s Ruby Conference I even [...]
I can’t remember why we were discussing fetishes in the pub at Scottish Ruby Conference, but in an attempt to claim innocence (ha!) Ryan Stenhouse referred to the top hit on Google, which is Wikipedia’s definition: Fetishism, the attribution of religious or mystical qualities to inanimate objects That’s probably not the first definition that springs [...]
So, pretty much every year I decide that I’m going to be more consistent about working on my side projects, updating this blog, and generally not spending my non-work time staring vacantly at either my TV or my computer. Then it descends into half-hearted hacking on toy projects that never really achieve anything, and I’m [...]
Last November I handed in my notice at Daxtra Technologies. I didn’t have anything else lined up, but after three and a quarter years I felt I needed to move on, largely because I didn’t see any opportunity to move my career in the direction I wanted. I want to be working on awesome scaling [...]
I’m really happy that I’m starting to see articles questioning the marketing value of social media. I’ve been using social media for over a decade, since before people used the term ‘social media’. As I say in my Twitter bio, I ‘live on the internet’. I’ve met my wife on the internet, and so on, [...]
I’ve been on a mobile/iPhone webapp kick lately. It seems like a nice area to work in, and it’s forced me to pick up a lot more JavaScript than I had before which is good. There are some amazing frameworks for making iPhone webapps. The first one I came across was jQTouch, which is a [...]
