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What Are The Chances Of That?
For the last couple of years, I’ve been working fairly regularly with a chap called Carl. The other day a group of us were chatting, and got to talking about cars we had owned. Among others, Carl had once owned … Continue reading
Simply the Best!
Not a lot to say about this one – it just made me giggle when I was reviewing the photos from a wedding I attended last weekend. Enjoy 🙂 Continue reading
What’s in a Name?
I just had a bit of a scare. An app which tracks my Twitter activity informed me that “DignitasLtd” had started following me. Of course, I immediately thought of the Swiss clinic, and wondered what they knew that my doctor … Continue reading
Ask A P’liceman
I think it was Will Hay who popularised the notion of added value timekeeping and navigational services from the forces of law and order. This doesn’t always work. On Barbados recently, we were trying without much success to find Fisher … Continue reading
A$$hole Driven Development and Other Anti-Patterns
Musings on antipatterns in development, project management and IT governance Continue reading
Getting Wider?
Frances always says I’m getting wider. I hope this doesn’t give her too much evidence. 🙂 Continue reading
Photos from Sunny Crete!
We’ve just got back from our trip to Crete. Nice people, but the weather was a bit deficient considering this was supposed to be a “week in the sun” :(. Here’s an early version of what may be my best … Continue reading
The Half Arsed Agile Manifesto
If you’re wondering why agile methods don’t work in your organisation, look no further than this. Very funny, but scarily accurate. In the words of the Tao of Lao-Tsu, “If you want to control something, you must first let it … Continue reading
Hereinafter
We used to take the mickey out of Japanese user manuals for not being written very well. My favourite example was “engine not turning very round”, although sadly I suspect that may have been apocryphal. Now, I think there’s a … Continue reading
A Confident Prediction
Musings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows Continue reading
Word Grammar Checker – A Nicely Carribean Flavour
This may amuse you. I went to type “Here are my comments” (something I do fairly frequently), but mis-typed it as “Here are me comments”. Word correctly identifies this as incorrect grammar, with a green line under “are”. Right click, … Continue reading
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