Category Archives: Rants

2009 a Year in Review

The year the Foo Fighters released a Tom Petty quality song (Wheels). James Cameron released a very hyped computer generated ‘blue version’ of Dances with Wolves. People continued to claim RSS/Blogging was dead, and Twitter was the new king. With … Continue reading

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LinkedIn add Twitter dribble to RSS Feed

OMG, WTF, LinkedIn developers in their lack of vision have added support for Twitter into LinkedIn, thus turning it from a business network tool, into a Facebook style pile of dung. I’m ok with that, but what I’m not cool … Continue reading

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The Olympics

Well 2008 Olympics, and I have enjoyed it quite a bit.  I really enjoyed the opening ceremony, and it was a great chance to use the PVR to record the whole thing. It will be good to not feel compelled … Continue reading

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Sicko – Michael Moore

Michaela and I have just finished watching Sicko, fantastic movie/documentry, that I’d been keen to watch for a while. Nic has an even better write-up so just read his (in full). It has made me hesitant about working in the … Continue reading

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Product Naming *groan*

Oh my god, the people further up the ladder have after a year and a half decided what our new database/reporting tools will be named. The tools came from another company (X) that is now owned by our parent (Y) … Continue reading

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