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Snowboarding on this…

Huzzah…

Just finished a great guising session this evening (‘trick or treating’ for my Merkin friends) with the kids and our neighbours families in the steading where we stay. We’re one of 16 homes and more than half of them have kids…so over the last 2 to 4 years all our broods have arrived and grown up with one another. This year Halloween was a full on dozen or so of ‘em crashing from house to house, showing off great costumes, making up jokes and generally causing havoc.

There was much in the way of lanterns, some games (well done Tim and Sonia) and I managed to scare up a spooky green light and played some graveyard effects on the kitchen PC when the guising party arrived.

Great night!

Wonderful insight into one of my favourite films. Because of this small decision a treasured moment was allowed to be retained.

Enjoy…

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 characters in this strip I’ve followed for a long time now, Skull’s naivety, Cole’s cynicism and world-weary realism and of course…well it’s a gag on Star Wars. Why wouldn’t you love it?

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 of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly immediate need, it’s almost certainly over-designed. And don’t expect people to jump in and help you. That’s not how these things work. You need to get something half-way useful first, and then others will say “hey, that almost works for me”, and they’ll get involved in the project.

[Linus Torvalds]

Contrast this with the monumental effort needed to initiate, elaborate and get momentum behind big programmes…and we continually, year after year are surprised that flagship scaled projects have difficulty delivering. The eternal and utterly human triumph of optimism over experience.

Make the right, informed, smart and pragmatic changes to key functional components within your architecture. Publish the API’s to your solution, be utterly transparent to those that would leverage your product and be generous with your time and FR’s…’Field of Dreams’ stuff folks! If you build it – they will come.

Here endeth the lesson…off to watch footie and drink beer. Apparently someone’s scored and the ITV ad break made everyone in UK miss it.

RoFLMAO

Pay your goddamn license fees, get the Beeb funded properly and stop bitching people.

Sweet mother of god in heaven this looks good !

Dilb’s new supervisor – love the ‘udder trousers’

Rams in the north of england fitted with harnesses and dyed packs to indicate which of the ewes in their flock have been serviced have been getting ‘bored’ and turning on one another in what can only be described as an ovine gay frenzy !

Gives an entirely new meaning to ‘getting fleeced’