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Bastards

By ⋅ July 8, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Goddamn bastards. As per usual what pisses me off the most is that I have to think what I am most upset about: people dying; the inevitable removal of people’s freedom to travel; the reaction; the anhilation of what should have been a huge time of celebration for London… And then Condoleeza comes on the [...]

Audioslave’s Latest

By ⋅ June 22, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

…his elastic stomp box excursions verge on self-parody on occasion

When Not to Rant

By ⋅ June 9, 2005 ⋅ 6 comments

Oops. A blogging Microsoft recruiter has got herself into a bunch of hot water over a ranting post about the interaction between hiring managers and recruiters at Redmond. A lot of what she says is probably pretty spot-on: But she also gets a little bit petty and bitter: Robert Scoble has said several times that [...]

Decisions

By ⋅ April 1, 2005 ⋅ 43 comments

In-line rendering of what was previously a static htm page: Hello Slashdot. Here’s a static page in a vain attempt to save our server. I imagine you’re wanting to see the text of this article? Have a lovely day, and please do come back and visit sometime when our host provider is a little less [...]

Flickhoo – my take

By ⋅ March 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

So Yahoo! bought Flickr. Firstly mega-congratulations to the people bhind Flickr. This is the sort of thing that all of us with a vague ability to write code dream about: build something that the big guys come and buy for lots of cashmoney. Secondly, I’m starting to get interested in Yahoo! for a couple of [...]

Eighty Percent

By ⋅ February 10, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

It is a commonly known rule-of-thumb in software development that 80% of features can be implemented in 20% of the time, with the remaining 20% of features taking the bulk of development effort. In reality I believe it is actually a sliding scale, with development effort increasing almost exponentially as the most difficult and unique [...]

EA: Electronic Arse

By ⋅ December 3, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Electronic Arts have come under a lot of flak lately, mainly stemming from blog postings complaining about their insane demands on staff. This one from a ‘disgruntled spouse’ is the most visible. Death marches are a fairly common occurence in the game development industry, whereby developers are asked to work very long hours as a [...]

Cluetrain now departing from platform 3…

By ⋅ November 4, 2004 ⋅ 4 comments

From MetaFilter: Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers. Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors. Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment. Voters in 11 states voted to ban same-sex marriage. The lowest margin was 57%-43%. The highest (Mississippi) was 86%-14%. Kentucky’s also [...]

Pour More Beers

By ⋅ November 4, 2004 ⋅ 10 comments

…because I’m probably going to have to remain drunk for four years to deal with the idea of “Dubya with a Mandate”. If you’re in Fallujah right now, best you duck and cover, because there’s a shitstorm coming your way as soon as el Presidente and his hawks get over their hangovers. I think the [...]

Nintendo gets it oh so right

By ⋅ October 29, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Now that is how you deal with a bad PR day. Nintendo were vilified across the web this morning after a very stupid lawyer wrote to (following link not safe for work – it’s a porn site) SuicideGirls claiming that they were infringing on Nintendo trademarks by having a member post Metroid and Zelda as [...]

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