( I hate computers (or possibly Apache just hates my dressing gown) )

Today, as anyone who wakes up listening to 6music will know, is Wear Your Old Band T-shirt To Work Day.
( So I am )

Very slightly over a year ago, I wrote:

So, for 2014: evaluate life. Work out how to fit things in to it. Learn new stuff.

At the end of March, I wrote my first quarterly report on the resolution, which decided that progress was, frankly, not brilliant ( Read more... )

Some time last year, I bestirred myself to look up what, exactly, is meant by the phrase "dog days". Wikipedia tells me that it "refers to the sultry days of summer[citation needed]". It seems we get this from the Roman diēs caniculārēs, the hot weather associated with the dog star, Sirius ( Read more... )

In newJob, I am encountering the Djanog web framework for the first time. The biggest problem seems, thus far, to be that I can't type Djanog. This makes API calls fail, makes finding stuff online mildly annoying, and makes me look like an idiot in emails.

Bloody Djanog.

I'm now just starting my fourth week in the new job. And despite the idea of a 45-minute Tube journey every morning being some people's idea of hell, I'm loving working in central London.

( London! )

On June 18th, I joined in with an LJ meme where I wrote about my life ten years ago, five years ago, today, etc. My employer has had a somewhat chequered history, but as I wrote in the 'now' section, everything was on "a reasonably even keel" and had been for a while ( Read more... )

Grrr. Today I am updating some technical documentation. It is out of date, and very confusingly written. When I started, I thought it'd be about an hour's work.

That was yesterday morning.

I'd like to thump the idiot who originally wrote it.

Only, er, that seems to have been me :(

Aaaargh! How hard can it be to get a new computer to shut up ( Read more... )

Recently at work, I got a new laptop. The "ooh, shiny new hardware" is slightly offset by the usual round of tweaking all the settings to make it behave how I want. Not to mention a few days worth of installing software and copying data off the old machine. Of late, instead of actually working, I've been repeatedly running the Cygwin installer ( Read more... )