I was going to call in sick to work due to depression when one of my minions called saying she was off due to depression too. This turned into a bit of a "who's the most hardcore" contest. She won as it turned out she was this bad (excellent blog by the way, even though not updated in a long while due to the author's depression). I conceeded and ( Read more... )

I was in a seminar where I realised I'd never made a papier mache model of Puff The Magic Dragon. An older lady stood on the table next to me and comforted me... then came on to me. I decided to roll with it and see where it went ( Read more... )

And so I once again remember livejournal and decide to keep it more up-to-date. Look forward to a flurry of updates for the next week or so then another 3 months of silence ( Read more... )

Today was a bit different. Becca (Rebecca) started today, so I have spent pretty much the entire time doing programming fundamentals with her. She's above the level of "this is a variable, think of it like a box with a name on it" but not by much. It's kind of odd that her mysql skills were as strong as they were but the coding side so far behind ( Read more... )

It's been mental here the last week or so ( Read more... )

Camping it up at the weekend was good. It was in Derbyshire, so we once again verified the old phrase "it's grim up north" ... so windy :-/ . It was a lot of fun to just hang out with Adam, Nicky, Jin and Nicky's mate Mort (Helen). The entirely-subtle-honestly efforts to get Jin and Mort to hit it off went well and there's talk of making a bit of ( Read more... )

It's been 8 weeks since I got back from Poland ( Read more... )

Does anyone here use Twitter? I've heard so much about it that I decided to sign up (lightinthedarkd if you want to follow me). Given how rarely I update this which I care about, I'm not sure twitter will get any better attention from me ( Read more... )

This is just a note for myself really. I'll post an example page of why this is a useful bit of information later. I feel there should be a way to say "look! Web developers, here is a thing which may be useful if you're dealing with crummy browsers like Internet Explorer 6." Alas, posting on my blog here is unlikely to get this any sort of ( Read more... )

Spent all day today documenting stuff. Just writing down where we are and where we're going. It was nice to get away from the panic of "Oh No! The reports system is killing my kitten and eReg is telling me to vomit into my shoes after every 2nd meal!!!" that I'm usually confronted with*. It feels good to have written everything down rather than ( Read more... )