General

Well, the site is 1 month old and I’m still rambling on. I think I have about 4 readers now too ;)

Ok, the blog looks crap in IE 5.x I’ve seen the stuff about hacking around the css bugs in IE but I’m not clever enough to hack the css sheet that I have to do that. If anyone knows what I need to do to fix it so that it looks nicer in IE 5.x, please let me know.

Last night I had some beers with some guys I used to work with. They were celebrating the latest round of redundancies. What was interesting was that generally the people that I spoke to that were still employed seemed less happy than the people that had been ’let go’… I worked at Interlink between 1994 and 1997. It was my first real programming job, until then I’d been a plumber by trade and a programmer in the evenings.

Refactoring project going well; Just in time requirements project moving into a phase where we finally get end to end connectivity; skating hurts - lesson two, 2 falls and, well, my body is old :( I know why I ski and don’t snowboard… Poker lessons and some people I used to work with a long time ago lose their jobs and are happy about it…

I just took the What kind of thinker are you test over on the BBC site. Interesting results… You are a Spatial Thinker *Spatial Thinkers: Tend to think in pictures, and can develop good mental models of the physical world. Think well in three dimensions Have a flair for working with objects Like other spatial thinkers, Leonardo had a talent for designing buildings and machinery. He also invented a new style of map making.

I have lots of stuff that I’ve been meaning to throw up onto the web for a while. Lots of stuff that’s been in my digital equivalent of an old cardboard box for several years. I’m going to be posting these old things from time to time and setting their publication date to the date that they were originally created. This is day 0. Entries before now were posted after now…

I’ve been meaning to put up a personal web site for a while now. This is it. Originally I had the usual ‘collection of random rubbish’ style of personal web site. This then grew to contain my technical ramblings and details of my consulting business. I decided that this mixture wasnt exactly professional and pulled all of the ‘sensible’ stuff out into a new web site for my consulting business. The remains of my personal pages were left to ecompose…