I owe you this. I owe this to the team.  I owe it to those who have read and believed in us.  We're a badass team and you'll hopefully have seen some of what we can do.  Those screenshots alone should blow your minds. This is how it is. When your life falls to pieces, when you throw away what used to be, you need to ...

  Yeah, I'm back.  First, let's do the apologies.  Apart from what's stored on this site - and hence, not in my home - I have no code, no documentation, no designs, no art.  This was caused by an unfortunate incident involving hell not having such fury, and which saw rather a lot of destruction of hard drives in both my dev ...

Although in all fairness, I've kind of wanted to be lately. Brief rundown: 1. Moved mother out of ancestral home. 2. Completed first Triathlon. 3. Seperated from wife. 4. Started new permie job.  Anyway, #3 should be done with by tomorrow night and an end to the endless packing and boxes and just general heartache is in sight. I hope ...

Just got back from the exam and I've managed to pass my Driving Theory test.

I have my Driving Theory test tomorrow morning. Supposedly forty minutes worth of screen tapping in order to get the 30/35 questions correct that will enable me to take my Practical test before my end-of-September deadline. I know, I know. I'm a little old to be finally learning to drive. In my defence I live on an Island 30 miles long by 15 ...

You probably neither knew or cared, but last night another Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak was announced in England.  Even now, all farms are being sealed off, all movement of livestock is a criminal offence until restrictions are lifted. All the animals on that little farm near Guildford are being slaughtered and burned. All farm animals ...

  I was just talking to somebody who used to be my friend.  A long time ago.  We fell out, over the concept of Skinner boxes.  See, I had design ideas.  He had design ideas.  I'm a programmer.  He isn't.  This gives me balance of power over who gets their ideas implemented because I don't want to code ...

I'm spending today writing a physical design spec document because i have Blanked.  And it'll last all day, i know from experience. Today, my own code means nothing to me.  It might as well be written in Sumerian stick-writing and describe the inner workings of the female mind because i do not understand it at all. Everyone else's code ...

So yeah, I listen to music while coding, obviously. A few weeks ago, I was attempting to identify a baseline to a dreadful song - Torn by Natalie Imbruglia, actually - and noted that it shared a great deal in common with the main riff some some cheesy old Eighties rock track whose name I simply could not remember.  Or the band.  ...

I knew using my real name would buy me trouble. See, two days per month, i lecture in AI at a local university.  And now, one of my colleagues has found this blog.  Hi Stuart. That's just about bearable, but if the students come across rants like this one then i may run into issues with that whole discipline thing. Advice ...