Author Archives: David

It shouldn’t be this difficult

Posted on August 10, 2009 by David

Why is it that jobs that seem like they ought to be easy take ages to do? As a recent example I had to put up a new rotary clothes line in the back garden so I got hold of … Continue reading →

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Y not

Posted on June 27, 2009 by David

I took this with my new toy, a Sony Alpha 200 DSLR.

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The Theory of Quantum Sermons

Posted on March 21, 2009 by David

This theory was developed during a blether with my brother in law that started to get sillier the more we unpacked it. This is as far as we got. Please feel free to enhance the theory with your own observations … Continue reading →

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Google Calendar

Posted on March 2, 2009 by David

Ok, so I know Google calendar has been around for ages but I’ve just got around to playing with it. More specifically I’ve started to play around with the API so that I can create events programatically. I’m using TCL, … Continue reading →

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A New Year, a new(ish) OS and a reinstall

Posted on January 11, 2009 by David

The title is not strictly true since the change happened in December last year but I’m now using Vista on my work laptop. The old Dell laptop went back to the company and I got a new Lenovo Thinkpad with … Continue reading →

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Head Hunted

Posted on November 5, 2008 by David

I got a phone call from an old work colleague who said that someone was looking for me and wanted to offer me a job and would it be ok if they called me. It sounded interesting and so I … Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on November 5, 2008 by David

Its been a while since I’ve posted and quite a bit has happened. We (the family that is) have moved to a new house about 500 yards away from the old one. Why move such a short distance? Well our … Continue reading →

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Stretching the brain

Posted on September 4, 2008 by David

I’m currently working my way through the problems Project Euler as a way of stretching my brain and also refreshing my C++. The actual problems can be solved in pretty much any language and judging by the forum they have … Continue reading →

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The dragon is back

Posted on August 13, 2008 by David

I finally got around to scanning in the dragons that my dad drew for me and have put one of them on the header. Hopefully I can get around to doing some work on the template behind this site.

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You will be assimilated

Posted on August 8, 2008 by David

Well I’ve not posted anything for ages, partly through being busy and also we’ve been on holiday. On a more software based note the company that I work for has been bought out…again. So far in my career in software … Continue reading →

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