As they used to say in the comics - 'groo'

Caught a bug from some patient-zero or other at work last week which made the weekend an exercise in 'not quite manky enough to stop home', then two days of goldfish brain (no bloody hallucinations. rubbish.), a day of snot yesterday and today seems to be about hacking up both lungs ( Read more... )

A question on the Faceache about hackery started me wondering about what I've managed to miss by not having, er, any CS qualifications ( Read more... )

(Which about covers it ( Read more... )

I have just been grovelling round the back of the computer bench with the narrow vacuum attachment that generates extra suction. Or makes all the right noises to convince one that extra suction is being developed and is thus the correct implement to use for such jobs. That specific job being 'clean out the inside of the PC because it has been ( Read more... )

A stupid and annoying phrase that is surely destined for a Powerpoint presentation fell into my head the other week, and it went along the lines of 'Things like Github mean you have a whole pile of shit-hot hackers working for you for free ( Read more... )

For $reasons, I've given libeljournal.com something of a shoeing. Since it's on Gradwell, which comes with a shell and, er, that's yer lot matey, and I make tea for people who have to support Wordpress (actually, I looked at some of the code. Oh. Dear.), and I used to have a Moveable Type install which got defaced because of some shoddy PHP ( ( Read more... )

Crikey. Looks like it's official.

Wahey, basically.

Those of you out there who (have ambitions to) write SF and/or fantasy and who aren't against the idea of having your lives picked up and given a good shake might like to view this: http://www.sff.net/paradise/

John Wyndham explains the correct way to do Chappist SF:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/media/bb/wyndham_4x3_bb.ram

Poll Malarkey