Category Archives: General

Hi. You may have noticed that all my posts have replicated themselves. I changed the permalink code to a nicer format, forgetting that this would mess up all the feeds. Sorry about that.

You known that IntelliSense rots your brain, right? Well if you use Emacs, now you too can rot your brain, only better (everything is always better with Emacs). This is the most treasured snippet from my .emacs file. All it … Continue reading →

Another good one from Bruce: SETI virii. Reminds me of the “negotiating with host” bit in Independence Day. Strange how the virus isn't evil when we're the good guys.

Back to the doctor today, I had to get a mole removed. They can't enough of me. The worst thing about minor surgery is the fact that you are conscious. Of course, the drugs are great and work really well … Continue reading →

So this weekend myself and the family, big culchies that we are, are off to the Dundrum Town Center (pathetic flash site – hello guys, HTML please) for a gawk. This is Ireland's latest and greatest “mall”, which includes a … Continue reading →

Microsoft's new extension to RSS is a pretty big deal. Now normally I would roll my eyes at yet another attempt to smother an open standard, but this time it's actually not so bad. You know an idea is in … Continue reading →

Tom Evslin points out that APIs will make or break most of the new web applications. And he's dead right. In fact, API's are where all the really interesting stuff happens, because you get people doing things with your service … Continue reading →

Sure I suppose I'd better give this Google Analytics thing a go. If only for the fancy graphics. I already use awstats and that's OK as far as it goes. The Google stats system is pretty flash, but surprisingly slow. … Continue reading →

I know brackets are parentheses, but bear with me, we're on the other side of the pond here. So what is the story with the functionName (param1, param2, …) style? Darlings, you are disassociating context! Huh? Well look, one of … Continue reading →

I'm a big fan of BigPictureSmallOffice, mostly because I don't work in one anymore! Apparently the IT department managed to entirely bork the company's database, including the list of oustanding orders. Yee Haa! Hey, I've been there. One month into … Continue reading →