December 2008
40 posts
A sad day returning my Canon DSLR - out of stock so no exchange. Couple of other returns. Hung out washing. Can’t wait to go back to work.
My wonderful Canon 1000d is b0rked. Off to John Lewis to exchange it.
Father-in-law’s birthday today. A trip to see Rothko at Tate Modern and some of my signature cauliflower curry for dinner.
Cooked pizza with friends in Coveney. Glenfiddich is the vibe.
Pirates of the Caribbean = Carry on Cannibals. Aren’t films supposed to have a plot or narrative?
“O come all ye faithful” is the rockingest Christmas Carol.
This town is coming like a ghost town.
BBC iPlayer Desktop on Adobe AIR. Could this be the breakthrough for AIR? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/labs
Failed trying not to eat the whole packet of fresh pasta.
Fellow geeks, what happens when *you* type ddate (sic.) at the command prompt on your Linux/Unix box? Anything?
Lovely and mild at the moment. I like these days at work in the run up to Christmas. Long periods without interruption. Gets work done.
Oxford Street. Gulp.
All quiet in London Town this rush hour. The Natural History Museum ice rink raises a smile.
Pre-Christmas dinner with the family. Sweet Sherry is the vibe. And winter Pimms.
Apple has given us the iPod, for which I am grateful, but the headphones are the worst thing to happen to public transport since Railtrack.
Having a beer at Marylebone station. I wonder who Mary was and what was so good about her.
JSLint, The JavaScript Verifier →
This looks like a charming way of validating those dodgy JS quickies that one cooks up for a test but always end up on one’s live server.
Python’s negative list index is just beautiful.
A bit late in the day to be getting into the guts of Python’s OO code. Now, to identify base class(es) from derived class instance…
Am satisfied with rodent Santa but very pleased with mice Elf.
Can anyone suggest plausible alternatives to Flickr in case it gets crunched? Preferably not a corporate behemoth.
On Eurostar back from Bruges. It’s an exquisite place. Towers, canals, windmills, gabled rooves. Chips and beer are staples. Highly reco …
110 yoyos for 103 squids, commission-free. The pound is really suffering. Boarding Eurostar for Bruges.
December spells carnage in the web world; pownce http://is.gd/9UWO, last.fm http://is.gd/blFk, flickr http://is.gd/blFH.
Looks like I’m going to have to take some macro pictures of flowers/leaves with dew/frost on them to get into flickr explore.
Deep frost this morning.
Nipping off for a pint at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese http://is.gd/bbtM
I am not buying custard creams again until they stop putting crack cocaine in them.
Oh please. How much packaging does an SDHC card really need?
Yesterday, saw great documentary on Becher photography at Goethe Institut. A great Götz Diergarten exhibit of British seaside there too.
I like Opera 9.6. The sync function is very effective, giving me consistent toolbar bookmarks etc at home and work. Strict standards always.
Yahoo’s geocoder offers the most intuitive and correct results I’ve encountered when given text of varying precision. http://is.gd/annG
Happy Birthday to you, @paulmonkey. A year older and a year wiser, I trust.
Low sun picks out the steam rising from the towers of Canary Wharf and the City of London.
Mysteriously, the keys between and including Caps Lock and Escape on my keyboard have stopped working. No Tab = command line pain.
Blimey, it was dark at 7am this morning. Just participated in a seminar on web intelligence with the guys and gals of http://www.uel.ac.uk/.
Very cold in London this morning but bright. Rained this afternoon. Mega veg chilli for dinner. Good and wholesome. Ordered presents fro …
November 2008
37 posts
Last chance for a developer to ride shotgun with me at the V&A. http://is.gd/9DUq. If you know anyone who likes standards and MVC, tell em!