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1 year, 3 months ago Posted in: Computers and Internet, Funnies, WWW (Weird & Wonderful Web) 0

Fraaaaank!! This is wonderfully weird and self-referential…makes me smile


…beyond funny. Day #3 of the Nocturnals saga. Overnight wear fine (other than No.1 some coming through for some attention at 2:30am) If any of you contact lens wearers out there have worn them overnight by accident then you’ll know the ‘s and 8′ your eyes are in in the morning…drove to the gym like [...]


1 year, 4 months ago Posted in: Comics and Graphic Humour, Computers and Internet, Funnies 0

Two of my favourite subjects borg’d into one. Social Media and Data Visualisation…and yes I appear to be firmly in the heart of this so I’m kind of a mess :0)


The office has now (in it’s dubious wisdom) decided to block xkcd.com….my epitaph for a site that keeps me laughing every single day


Given the recent conversations in the office and our amusingly exotic mix of technologies one comes across during a brief review of even a small part of the architecture I’m responsible for this post really does make me laff (inside I’m crying)….sob!


Apparently Scott Kurtz (author of PVP Online) didn’t think this was much of a strip and kind of just tossed it out there. It’s one of the mysteries of ‘what makes funny’ – I nearly laughed my morning latte down my nose. Think it’s as much to do with the attachment I have to the [...]


1 year, 8 months ago Posted in: Computers and Internet, Entertainment, Geekery, Musings 0

Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small trivial project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you’ll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size [...]


1 year, 8 months ago Posted in: At Work !, Computers and Internet, Musings, Work 0

Cross post from Seth Godin’s blog People don’t like deadlines. They mean a decision, shipping and risk. They force us to decide. Deadlines work. Products that are about to disappear, auctions that are about to end, tickets that are about to sell out–they create forward motion. Deadlines make people do dumb things. Every time I [...]


1 year, 9 months ago Posted in: Broadband, Computers and Internet 0

After a very annoying end of last week where a relatively simple BB upgrade turned into a bit of a snafu I’ve now got my nice, shiny new Linksys By Cisco N-Router fired up and connected…speeds were dire yesterday and I considered vaping the upgrade and reverting to my fixed speed 1Mbps service but I’m [...]


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