Year: 2006
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Claire, “Friends Only” Weblogs, And Employment
As Jon said, people like Alec and Suz have made their weblogs friends-only for the purpose of attempting to hide what goes in in their lives from employers, prospective employers, or the world in general. On the purpose of hiding such things from employers, I think that Claire's most recent blog post (which talks about …
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Tango Icon Gallery - Tango Desktop Project
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Tango Icon Gallery - Tango Desktop Project.
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Dan & Alex 73
AltDan & Alex 73: Alex thanks Dan for the helpful antivirus software, because it's suggested to him that Alex's Nigerian pen-pal might like to take him "fishing". He queries the unusual spelling, though.
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Dan & Alex 72
AltDan & Alex 72: Alex installs antivirus software. Dan warns him that it won't protect him from idiocy. As soon as Dan's out of sight, Alex starts downloading free screensavers.
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Dan & Alex 71
AltDan & Alex 71: Simon demands to know how a virus got on his computer. Alex claims not to even know what a virus is. Dan says that's a great defence, but Alex plays coy: perhaps he genuinely doesn't know?
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Naruto Night
Tonight's agenda:
8:00pm - American Dad: Season finale.
8:30pm - Naruto Night as usual: Bleach and Last Exile are on the cards.
10:00pm - Full Metal Alchemist : Conquerer Of Shambala (thanks Jimmy)
You know how this works by now. -
Grr! Money!
After getting myself all pleased that the first of the month was coming and I'd have some money to pay the rent, the bills (phone/ADSL got disconnected this morning; BT are unreasonable cunts), etc., guess what - I'm exactly as poor as I was yesterday.
Fucking shitty wank arse buggery. I'm owed £300 by a client, … -
Vespers
Some time ago, I recommended Photopia as a great text-based adventure for both beginners and veterans: with a great, sweet story (with a slightly depressing ending) and a short play time, it's just great to show people why text-based adventures are fun.
Here's my latest recommendation: Vespers. It's dark, cold, and disturbing - insanity, bubonic plague, … -
Features UNIX Has That Life Needs
It's come to my attention that there are a lot of things that computers in general - and, in particular, UN*X-flavoured operating systems - offer that are sadly lacking in Real Life. I'm hoping that Life 2.0 will include a number of these features. (Life 2.0, of course, will not be like Web 2.0 - …
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Active Listening
I just thought I'd take the time to share with you all some things I've learned about active listening over the last few years: techniques to benefit more fluid communication with less scope for conflicts - and with the capability to help de-fuse arguments before they get out of control. I know that I've spoken …
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Nothing Tonight
There's nothing happening tonight. Nothing at all. No Geek Night. No Link Night. Zilcho. Just so you've been warned.
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This Will Make You Laugh
This repost was published in hindsight, on 18 March 2019.
Matt R wrote:
Well it would have were you there. I hope.
Sunday came and went and left me with the greatest buzz I think I've ever felt. I'm loving this comedy lark. I was terrified of the performance right up until the end of my first … -
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
What is a "setup experience"? And why do Microsoft want to share it with me, anyway?
I can't actually find a definition of the word "performant" - can anybody help? -
Yahoo! UI Library
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Yahoo! UI Library.
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IRC Doesn’t Kill People - People Do!
There's just been an interesting debate on the RockMonkey ChatRoom (#RockMonkey on Freenode) about where the channel is going, where power should lie, and all that jazz. It's pretty much inevitable that this kind of discussion takes place on a channel, but this is the first time I've seen it happen on such a small …