Banuary

This year is the second year running where I have joined the club for Banuary, giving up alcohol for 1 month in, well, January (some go all the way and give up snacks and caffeine too).
Now, I do it mainly for the feeling. I miss a couple of ales mid-week, a couple over the weekend, [...]

Rubber ducky

As a programmer, I am well into its different methodologies. Not all are completely serious, but all carry a message. My favourites being KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) and DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). Something I discovered recently was that there is a Rubber Duck methodology which is described at Jaffa Monkey:
1) Beg, borrow, steal, buy, [...]

In the 80s zone!

After the last post, I decided to have a look at Roller discos from the 80s. I searched on Flickr and my hankering was almost instantly satisfied. You really can’t fake the shots. They look like they were taken in the 80s. You can try and get the style back in modern times, but it [...]

Now that gamers rule the land

I’ve been reading a couple of similar posts recently (links below) which have been talking, roughly, about the same thing. That, on the whole, successful websites are using gaming rules. Or the coolest ones anyway. I do find this interesting. We’re in an age where the first generation of gamers are now grown and well [...]

Change the world, one bit at a time

I recently turned 30. I said it. It’s happened. The days of grumpiness, beer bellies, staying at home and dinner parties have arrived. Kind of. The overwhelming desire to criticise and change things has been the main change I have noticed since my late 20s hit me. Government are crap, kids are out of control [...]

The NEWS needs a revolution

Let it be said now. I hate the news. I’ve reverted back to childhood where watching the news was considered not cartoons and hence boring. Actually, it isn’t boring, it’s just annoying. They report what is going on, how the world is ending etc. etc. then, just because we might not be scared enough, they [...]

The best technology

I was speaking to my dear friend and flatmate the other day as we gamed our faces off on Halo 3 (my gamer tag, by the way, is Dark Monk) and he asked me a great question: “what is the best technology you have ever bought?”. Now he put a caveat in there: which technology [...]

Vote now!

I promised myself I wouldn’t get into political or religious discussion on this blog because, well, you should never discuss either with people you potentially don’t know. Also, every other blogger and news reporter will be writing about the same old damn stuff.
But, before I stay up all night to see if our friends in [...]

My first websites

Way back when in 1997, I had been creating websites. I had been doing it for a while before then, but then it was all about just creating stuff at home and having fun. So, I teamed up with my good friend Nick to build some websites that would see the light of day.
Anyway, I [...]

Get the 80s snacks back here

For too long we have had mediocre snacks from the 1990s and 2000s. Everyone will be aware by now that Wispa is back. Lovely!
However, nothing quite prepared me this very lunch time, as I popped out with friend and old time colleague Mr. Clive Murray for the weekly Subway, for the discovery we made.
We headed [...]

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