Archive for January, 2007

A Bad Workman Blames his Tools

January 31st

I’ve used this saying a fair few times in my life, and today I was shown something that I think backs the statement up nicely. This is an example of an amazing Workman with a poor tool - and look at what he creates:
How to draw a car in MS. Paint
Simply amazing Thanks [...]

A Software List is Not a Job Description

January 28th

Over the past few weeks I’ve had the joy of dealing with many recruitment agents as I’ve been looking for a new contract. I won’t get into the choice of job at this stage, as that’s a whole new blog post right there. What I wanted to show was my frustration at quality [...]

A New Look

January 28th

I was getting sick of the way the site was looking, so I changed it. I know I’ll end up changing it again because I’ll no doubt get sick of looking at the site layout as well, but for now I’m quite happy with it. It’s a hacked version of a theme that I thought [...]

Multi-Page Posts

January 16th

As you no doubt have guessed, I can be a little verbose from time to time as I’m ranting away So I pondered the possibility of breaking up my posts across multiple pages. I installed a plugin that allows me to break the single post up into a series of pages, and I [...]

Notable

January 15th

I’ve had a few questions from people asking me why there’s a stack of queer looking icons appearing at the bottom of the blog posts, so I thought I’d post the details so that everyone knows.
The icons appear because of a plugin I recently installed called Notable. Notable is a plugin that generates links [...]

Quality of Service

January 14th

First of all, Happy New Year!
Now that the formalities are out of the way, I’ll get stuck into the post
Today’s comments are inspired a by a recent experience I had with an online form (of all things!). Being a bit of a game geek, both in the ‘build’ and ‘play’ senses, I constantly [...]

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