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 me

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

Demonopolised

We have transferred this domain name, another one has left the Evil Empire.  All three domains with our name on are now at Domain Direct.  Feels good.  Anywhere but Verisign would feel good, and these guys have done well on the other two domains. (Thank you Grammar Police, mistake corrected.

@ what?

BBC News report, the French have tried to rename the @ symbol Controversy has erupted in France after the linguistic authorities gave the @ character a name no French email user has ever heard of.  Until now, the French have had a choice between "arobase", a popular word derived from