Already T**stra is beginning to fade into an unhappy recollection. Considering that I congratulated myself on my good judgment in getting myself a place in an Australian household name on my CV, I’m feeling a little (a lot) foolish now. I have worked for places with as pathological environment as Telstra before, but very seldom, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )With my trusty brill-o pad in hand I am preparing to revolutionize my software development experience ™. Yes, the install media arrive through the post the other day for visual studio 2005…
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…diddle diddle dum. diddle diddle dum. And we arrive at the present moment. Yes I sat there like a zombie for a [...]
Some swine has started using comments on my blog as a way to spam me. I may soon have to prevent anonymous users from posting comments. I got 104 comments on one of my posts, and it wasn’t even that interesting!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The graph below I found from a recruitment site. It lists the relative importance of programming language skills and how they have changed over the last few years.
Aside from the fact that C# isn’t even in there, which I find a little alarming, it shows that all of the languages listed are in decline. Especially [...]
I love to be educated. I also love the fact that I can absorb new ideas continuously without ever sating my thirst for data. And where better than at Wikipedia, which has obviously been lavished with the attentions of a database expert in recent days. I have to admit that I have never heard of, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )It sounds like Daniel Tammet is anything but an idiot, but he is definitely an autistic savant. His insight into his abilities are described in this fascinating article in the Guardian.
Daniel’s facility with languages and figures reminds me of a man called Shiva who I met in Goa last year. Shiva is not not in [...]
WOW!!!
David Emonin is playing on ETN.FM, and his music is about the only trance music I have heard in years that actually does put me into a trance. I could listen to his set for days!!!
There will hopefully be a BitTorrent to download after the set.
Stream name: ETN.FM Progressive Channel
Current title: David Emonin - Atmospheres [...]
New Photo Gallery of Brighton and its environs. (Brighton, VIC this time)
Look out for the Jade plant (or money plant?) that is as tall as Kerry. Even my Mum and Dad might struggle to grow that! All the arboreal pictures are of St. Kilda Botanical Gardens or Elsternwick Park - both just up the road [...]
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