Abbreviated

Posted: Thu 2 April, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky, Thoughts | 9 Comments »

This post is about RSS feeds and so on. If you neither know nor care what an RSS feed is, don’t even bother clicking on the ‘more’ link below…

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Parking

Posted: Mon 30 March, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: 1BEM, Charm School, Cynicism, D4D™ | Leave a comment »

Today’s XKCD comic is just great.

It also probably sums up at least one reason why Herself will never allow me near oxy-acetylene cutting gear…

Summer Time

Posted: Sun 29 March, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky | Leave a comment »

Ah, the start of spring – the clocks went forward this morning, and that should be A Good Thing™.

The minor downside of Daylight Saving Time is that in theory I should change the way the time is displayed here on D4D™. Only I can never be arsed – so the entire site runs in GMT, regardless of whether it’s GMT or BST that we’re on.

Primarily this is because WordPress goes a bit odd when it comes to changing times – it becomes a global change, and all the time-stamps on the earlier posts get changed too. So I can’t be bothered to faff that much, and thus the decision was made to simply stick with GMT.

It’s not too much of a hassle, though – I just have to remember we’re in Summer Time when it comes to knowing when I want a future-post to go live.

Anyway, stop reading this rubbish, go out and enjoy the sun instead.

FAIL

Posted: Thu 19 March, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Depression, Domestic | Leave a comment »

Shit (boring, dull, utterly pointless) day, followed by terminal sense-of-humour failure.

Back tomorrow.

Quiet, and head down

Posted: Mon 16 March, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Web Development, Work-related | Leave a comment »

It’s been one of those quiet days today – well, on D4D™, anyway.

Within work, I’ve had my head down, fixing a bundle of bugs on the latest thing I’ve been writing. Nothing world-ending, but still stuff that needed fixing.

Most of the problems came about because on occasion I’m a total flange, and screwed up some of the logic between Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the project. In short, the logic in certain pages has become so convoluted that I don’t really think it qualifies as logic any more.

In others it was more just that requirements changed, and I forgot to update things in accordance with those requirements. Or kind of updated them, but not entirely.

Still, finding these things is exactly what testing is for…

Day’s Business

Posted: Mon 9 March, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Driving, Own Business, Work-related | Leave a comment »

A quick braindump of today…

  • The car passed its MOT with flying colours – no problems at all
  • The afternoon was spent in an utterly useless meeting – absolutely no relevance to anything I do, so it was a real prize all told
  • In the post the other day about Liquidation, I mis-wrote. I wasn’t worried at all about my own company’s potential for going into liquidation – that’s not going to happen unless I do something very stupid at some point in the future. The only point I wasn’t going to be ‘holier-than-thou’ about was that I can’t complain about another company not getting in the work when I haven’t been doing much for my own company either.
  • I’m working on getting more work in
  • I’m still a fuckwit when it comes to time-zones…

Spam Honesty

Posted: Wed 18 February, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Advertising, D4D™ | Leave a comment »

Now there’s a title I never thought I’d write.

All the same, I can only be impressed at a spam comment received recently here, whose content read…

Hello! It’s spamer’s programm. Please delete this topic to let me know, what this forum/guestbook is moderated!!!

Now fair enough, it’s about as literate as most spam emails, but at least it was working exactly as advertised.

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