I am working on a project that is using Django. We have decided to use ‘South’ which is a migration framework which tries to do for django what rails has out of the box. This is the first posting of…
Boldly striding backwards, into the future.
Money, where is it going? and how does it get there? Today, I discover that the fastest way to pay a bill is with my debit card. AND THAT IT TAKES 3 BUSINESS DAYS. Think about that for a minute.…
Ahhh, the wonders of insurance.
Our washing machine has started to make startling and alarming noises, so Wendy phoned British Gas. Not strange, we have insurance cover for many of our whitegoods and plumbing with them. While arranging a visit for the washing machine the…
art meets television.
And, unlike here in the west where television wins by totally destroying the art, in the Ukraine, art wins. Refreshing and wonderful. Please, follow this link
Geekdad Moments #1
I love being a dad. Me and the kids have a sort of long term game of ‘tick’ going on. It’s called the ‘boink’ and you pass it on by prodding the person with a finger while (completely unselfconsciously saying…
Geekness
I am a bit of a geek. Ok, yes, I admit it. I am a LOT of a geek. But I am not just ONE sort of geek. In part, I am a bit of a language geek. I love…
Schedules Schmedules….
Lovely article about schedules…. Here His comment about two work days is useful. but I can’t help feeling that is problematic. 1) managers seeing their creatives drifting in at noon when ‘I have been at my desk since seven AM…
Evidence of Adhocracy?
I really like open source, it gives clients comfort, developers solid foundations and end users never need to know about it. Why should they care! Today, being the thick headed person that I am, I realise in my gut, what…
SoundCloud: Twitter vs. Facebook
I was recently introduced to SoundCloud, specifically, through the music of NathanQ Now, while listening to the interesting dance beats of NathanQ, I also noticed the UI of the site. In doing so, I realised it was a nice implementation…
Bankers! no better words
I pride myself on being able (in some little way) to put words down in roughly the right order. But I can’t do any better to express my outrage, disgust and horror. Bankers are still a bunch of parasites Nuff…