January 2008
6 posts
http://scotlandonrails.com/speakers →
I know it’s just an alphabetic thing until the actual conference at the start of April, but it’s exciting / intimidating to be standing next to Koz and Mr Black. (Permalink update: http://conf2008.scotlandonrails.com/speakers)
http://lolinator.com/lol/anthonybailey.net →
I can haz “bork” translator for web 2.0 era? kthx.
“DDD provides the nouns, verbs and adjectives, and BDD provides all the other...”
– Liz Keogh in e-mail on BDD (and its good friend DDD.)
Tire some
Since adulthood, my body clock has reckoned there are rather more than twenty-four hours in its ideal day. I’m not tired early enough, so retire to sleep late, and as a result struggle somewhat to wake the next morning. For example, all last year when working I would rise with difficulty at 07:30, and retire begrudgingly at times averaging 01:30. Over Christmas I was very tired and sleepy....
I count only three chickens so far
If you believe the headlines, yesterday Sony became the last of the big four music labels to drop DRM. Um, I’m not sure that chicken has hatched, yet. Yes, apparently Sony artist Justin Timberlake will be involved in the forthcoming Pepsi/Amazon MP3 give-away, but it’s quite a leap from there to the label offering their entire catalog for sale as MP3. The original Business Week article...
Look at me still talking when there's science to...
I’ve previously mentioned how much I enjoyed playing through Portal. Like most I was a little disappointed on completing it so quickly, but it has proved to have plenty of further value. The developer commentary, the advanced maps, and those of the challenges that weren’t beyond my abilities have together provided another few days of fun. Also, high quality user-built maps are now...