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Top secret big nuts

For top secret work1 reasons I am learning a touch of C# at the moment. Normally, because it’s a Microsoft technology, you’d expect any knowledge you acquire to be transient due to their merciless and comprehensive deprecation strategy. This, as … Continue reading

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The youth of today

Iremember when I was a youth of today. Then, today becomes yesterday, then yesterday becomes the 80s and the 90s and with a radio retune to BBC Radio 4, I find that the only rocking drugs I am doing are … Continue reading

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These are the wires used to make my intergalactic spaceship

Ihave been becoming increasingly disheartened in recent years by how little the new generation of programmers know about how computers work. Their understanding of the relationship between what they tap into a computer and what the microprocessor actually ends up … Continue reading

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I’ll moon you if you’re not careful

To be honest, I probably won’t, unless it is by accident: I appear to have lost a small amount of weight recently and my trousers keep falling down. Between that and a belt that is held on by one wafer … Continue reading

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PlayBook: Hahahahaha!

What do you know the BlackBerry chaps for? What’s that? As industry leaders in secure mobile e-mail solutions you say? Absolutely. So, if YOU were RIM and you were releasing a tablet computer thingie to compete with the iPad, what … Continue reading

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The invasion of the giraffes

Since the baby Cobra joined us late last year, there has been a marked increase in the number of giraffes in our house. From where I am sitting, for example, I can see four giraffes – which I believe is … Continue reading

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