Monthly Archives: June 2005

Google sent someone over yesterday who was looking for “software productivity KLOC C#”. My friend, surely you know better than to judge a language by the number of lines it forces/allows you to produce? Just in case your boss is … Continue reading →

The Fallout Trust are releasing their single When We Are Gone on Monday 13th June 2005. If you weren’t thinking of buying it in HMV, Virgin Megastore or wherever else it’s available, you probably haven’t heard of them: The Fallout … Continue reading →

A Chinese games-player has been jailed for murdering another gamer. It only dawned on me after two sips of coffee that the guy had died in real life and not in the game. But I’m slow like that.

The BBC were reporting yesterday that Google’s valuation makes them the biggest media company in the world. Given that Microsoft does basically everything Google does – and a bit more (and I’m not saying they do it better or anything) … Continue reading →

I’m sure Developerfusion.co.uk is great. I’ve read some really interesting stuff there over the last few days. But why do the gremlins inside Google insist that Developerfusions’s version of my homepage is the authorative source of information about me? A … Continue reading →

First I skip Developer, Developer, Developer and now the London Geek Dinner. I’m on a roll… a while back I thought I’d have more time for the best thing about being a geek – other geeks! – but no longer. … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to find my ideal KDE-based live CD for a while – I can never seem to justify giving up a partition permanently for Linux, but I pine for KDE from time to time. Klax is nicely slimmed … Continue reading →

Here is some advice for the 800 or so people who have complained that Jamster’s Crazy Frog adverts are driving them dangerously insane – buy Tivo! Perfect your b-bip b-bip b-bip skills (Tivo owners, you know what I mean) and that … Continue reading →

We use a friendly Scandinavian company called Nedstat to spy on our usersgather statistics on our sites. They don’t provide Web Services, and their web interface is ocassionally a little inflexible, so we wanted to find a way of grabbing … Continue reading →