Category Archives: Miscellaneous rubbish

Conversational Geography

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Chief Cobra

“Civility is only a passenger – not a driver – on the information superhighway.” – Don Rittner So, this is interesting. Jeff Atwood, one of the chaps who was instrumental in building what has become, without a shadow of a … Continue reading →

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I know what I did last summer

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Chief Cobra

You, like most people on this planet, probably have a dishwasher. Even if you don’t, you almost certainly know how to use one. I, on the other hand, had neither owned nor used a dishwasher until last summer when thanks … Continue reading →

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Top secret big nuts

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Chief Cobra

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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Aliens… from Mars

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Chief Cobra

“♫ So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, ♬ ♪ And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, ‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth. ♬♩” – Eric Idle, … Continue reading →

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Which low hanging fruit are you?

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Unless you’re a hermit who lives in a pineapple under the sea, you’ve almost certainly read/heard about an unfortunate incident in recent days where hackers made off with over six million user accounts from Linked In. They broke in and … Continue reading →

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Twelve Spider Pile-up

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Chief Cobra

My umbrella looks like a twelve spider pileup. Instead of the glorious press-sliiiiide-sproingggg action that it used to do when I deployed it, I now get a urrggghhh, griiiiind, thuhhhhd followed by the sprinkling and tinkling sound of little bits … Continue reading →

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The Zombie Apocalypse

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Chief Cobra

We all know that the zombie apocalypse is coming, but when, exactly? Well, if the movies are anything to go by, I would say quite soon. Indeed, if you can bear it, it probably makes sense to hang around teenagers … Continue reading →

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Five no trumps. What could go wrong?

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Whilst I feel like a fallback to the British empire saying this (hahaha! We once had an empire!), I must express my enormous disappointment about the severe lack of bridge players these days. I think of it as a national … Continue reading →

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Book Club

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Chief Cobra

The first rule of Book Club is that we talk about Book Club as often as we can because books are cool. Recently, I read The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It was forced on me by my … Continue reading →

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The youth of today

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Chief Cobra

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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