Error
Another reason why I like Mailwasher: reassuring error messages.
Why didn't Microsoft do that?
Update: Sorry Olof! Fixed it now.
Alison Hawke
Leftishness
Two problems with being a former left hander are ironing clothes, and sawing wood. I used to be ambidextrous (which comes from the Latin for "right handed with both hands," dexter meaning right, sinister meaning left) until my teacher stepped in. She told us "your right hand
DevBlog
Almost got the Calendar Panel for Chronicle finished. Completed two tests today, all that's left is making sure the day numbers line up with the correct day, and the event generation stuff. I think I'm starting to like testing the code first. There's real
New Toys
Found a couple of new places to visit last night, while dealing with the 60+ emails waiting for me. First is Samuel Pepys' diary, in blog form, complete with useful references of the places Pepys referred to, who's who.
The other is I wish, you wish, a
Temporarily offline
I am taking a week away from the internet over Christmas. No blog, no email, no web, no nothing. Talk amongst yourselves until the first week of the new year, I'm going back to the Stone Age till then.
God in a Box part II
Olof sent me the URL for an article: Physics and Faith: The Luminous Web by Barbara Brown Taylor. It's an interesting one and worth reading, it got me thinking. Hubby listens to the radio preachers even when he disagrees with them, because they make him work out why
Psalm 23
Take a look at these versions of Psalm 23, the programmer's one and the workplace version are great
The Lord is my programmer, I shall not crash.
He installed his software on the hard disk of my heart;
all of his commands are user-friendly.
His directory guides
God in a box part I
It bugs me to hear preachers on the radio try to use science in their sermons and get it horribly wrong. It's embarrassing. If you don't know a quark from a muon, don't pretend you do. Stay away from the second law of thermodynamics
Tired
Courtesy of AOL and someone Hubby used to work with, we saw LOTR "The Two Towers" last night for free. It started at 10pm, we were queuing from 7:30 pm and the hold out line had already filled one and a half rows. Loved what they did
Dalek
It's amazing the terror the BBC props department could create using an oversized grey pepperpot, with a couple of Morris Minor indicator lights on top, wielding a sink plunger and trundling towards the camera screaming "Exterminate!" in a croaky electronic voice. Spot one of those down