Category Archives: Opinion

Mirroring Rules

August 3, 2006 – 11:08 pm

It’s happened again – I’ve been banned from WOS. It’s now becoming a regular occurance because I’ve started to use Website Watcher almost daily. For those who don’t know, this program downloads websites and highlights changes, saving people like me a lot of time. I only check a couple of the WOS pages (“what’s new”, [...]

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X-Men: Credits where it’s due

June 1, 2006 – 9:03 am

I watch credits. Credits to films, credits to computer games, occasionally credits to TV programs (tho’ I see those every epoisode so they’re usually on fast-forward). It’s not really out of interest in the industry (“Oh, Stephen Chan was Production Assistant – he’s very good. I liked his work on White Chicks.”). It’s more of [...]

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CSS Issues

March 21, 2006 – 11:43 am

I’m currently working on converting the raww.org theme to proper XHTML/CSS. In theory this should speed things up considerably as it will remove the tables which can slow things down. In practice it will probably break the site on all browsers except Firefox (as I’m using that for development). It’s coming along nicely, with the [...]

By icabod | Also posted in Development | Comments (0)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, H4xx0r

March 2, 2006 – 1:49 pm

I recently got to thinking about writing code. Ok, so as a “Software Engineer” that should be what I do most days, but I mean I was thinking about how we go about writing code. I know people who are great at producing working software, but when you look at the supporting documentation… it’s bollocks. [...]

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Banned from WOS

February 5, 2006 – 12:57 pm

I thought I’d go onto WOS and download a few games to play on the ZX. Not many, just a handful of games “from my past”. You know, stuff like Valhalla, Feud, things like that. Now like so many people I don’t recall all games I used to like, but I’m reminded of them when [...]

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Lazy Fame

December 22, 2005 – 3:18 pm

At work we’ve just been given our pay slips (woo!), and with them was the standard issue company diary. Each day that’s listed in the diary has a little “on this day” entry, with items such as “February 15 1971 – Decimalisation of coinage in Britain”, and important things like “April 3 1954 – Don [...]

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