After hacking together enough of a project management system that it could manage its own further development, I decided to try deploying it to my personal project VM before I went to bed. I had previously installed Phusion Passenger on my personal projects VM, so I figured this would be a five minute job. It [...]
Today is the first day for my new plan of not watching TV at 8pm, and here I am watching TV while I wait for my food to cook. I’m happy with that, though, since the project management system is looking good and I want to take some time to write up my first experiences [...]
I was initially going to ask this question on my twitter account, but it’s a bit longer than I can get into 140 characters. Unrelated to my project management software, I’ve been wondering about securely storing files in systems like Amazon’s S3. It seems like a great way to store files that you want to [...]
The New Year’s Resolution I kept for the longest time, one I made in High School and didn’t break until 2006, was to not make any New Year’s Resolutions. I didn’t keep the one I made in 2006, and I don’t think I’ve ever kept any of the ones I made when I was younger [...]
I love technology. It’s what allows us to have the awesome existence we live – from the wheel to a quad-core Xeon, all this technology is what enables human civilisation. All properly designed technology is morally neutral. Like a hammer, it just is – neither inherently good or bad, since moral judgements like that derive [...]
I have a dirty little secret. Admitting it in public could subject me to ridicule and potentially even hurt my future career prospects – but I’m going to do it anyway. I’m really apathetic and lazy. Okay, for some people who know me that’s not a secret – I do, after all, own the ‘apathy.org.uk’ [...]
The Large Hadron Collider is being started up today. Despite the press going mental today is only one beam starting up and the whole thing is entirely safe. It is nice to see some attention in the mainstream media for this kind of big science, though. The LHC is a massive project which has involved [...]
Prior to my current day job I spent just over a year working at one of Nokia’s outsourced call centres, first doing general support (how to use the phone and explaining that only the network can get it unlocked) and then technical support (mostly supporting Nokia PC sync software, and some other horrors). I’m interested [...]
I’m not going to write anything significant about my personal life here, so when I title a post ‘Relationships’ I’m referring to my relationship with technology, not my wife. If you want salacious gossip you’ll need to go elsewhere! There’s not a day that goes by in my day job where I don’t exclaim ‘I [...]
I’m not going to make a habit of posting memes on my blog here. My experience is that memes are the blogging equivalent of small talk – it’s just making noise so that people don’t feel uncomfortable in the silence. As a result, there may be periods of silence here, if I don’t have anything [...]
