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The letter is said Aitch

June 30, 2008 – 5:50 pm

a,b,c,d,e,f,g, AITCH, i,j,k,l,m,n…
Ladies and gentlemen, of the class of 1955 onwards.  I may not be able to spell, my grammer is dreadful, my punctuation almost non-existant, but I am finally loosing the plot when people see incapable of saying the letter H correctly.
As I sit on the train, the half-wit who is speaking to everyone [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in rant | Comments (0)

Revenge of the nerds? Maybe…

June 30, 2008 – 7:39 am

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So, having left my analytical left brain job (or rather I will on Friday) to go and work in a more creative field, I was greatly heartened to read We’re not sporty, but when it comes to spelling we Indians are the bee’s knees, explaining why India (and China I suspect) are rising [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in business | Comments (0)

Wii LightSabre!

June 25, 2008 – 6:09 pm

Finally somebody has made something which I rambled on about ages ago (and I imagine a load of other people did as well) and created …. A light Sabre fight game controlled by wiiMote!

By coldclimate | Posted in randomosity | Comments (2)

Do the important, not the urgent

June 24, 2008 – 10:55 am

I see lots of blog posting about developing web-apps and online stuff using agile-dynamic-insert-your-favorite-buzzword-methodology-here, but lots and lots of software is not developed in this way, and sometimes I think some of the lessons learnt developing monolithic and sprawling software can be useful to everybody, you AJAX powered-django hacking,python boys included.
A few years ago I [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in business, technology | Comments (0)

The days the world changed…

June 20, 2008 – 7:47 am

OK, so maybe thats over egging it a bit, but gone are the days where the statement that NASA have found ice on Mars looked like this, because the Mars Rover twitter feed has this on it this morning: “Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in interweb | Comments (0)

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