PCs have been through some major changes over the years. Lately we’ve had the emergence of 3d video cards, a major step forward for realistic real-time graphics rendering, and most recently 64-bit architectures on the desktop. Here’s my prediction for the next big thing that will become a standard addition to every high-end consumer pc: [...]
Early Monday morning, just finished work. It’s been a tough weekend – I still want to tell everybody I come across about us being pregnant. Having Dad and Lyn staying is hard because I want to tell them so badly. Can’t wait for 12 weeks. Had a bit of a mini-scare tonight as Cath reported [...]
Have you ever started to say one word, then halfway through changed your mind and said another word, with the result that you say something nonsensical and, usually, offensive? If so, you’ve committed hemilinguocombination. I was once having a conversation with Cath and began to refer to her as “blossom” (a term of endearment she [...]
Somebody please, please buy me this for Christmas… eBay link
On Wednesday night – an otherwise nondescript night of study and flight simming – Cath quietly took a pregnancy test and changed our lives. She came out into the living room, took me by the hand and showed me the test. All of a sudden, I started getting this huge goofy grin that I couldn’t [...]
I was looking through the Australian Army website looking at photos of Hueys (as you do) and found this one. I’ve got time in this very airframe (649). Aah, them were the days…
Hands up who’s discovered the wonders of Wikipedia. Now that’s what the Internet was invented for. Wikis are in general a very cool technology, but Wikipedia is bloody fantastic. For those that don’t have the foggiest idea what I’m on about, a wiki is a web page that anyone can edit in real time using [...]
Following my Scrum course on Friday/Saturday, I’m now officially a Certified ScrumMaster. We’ve started implementing Scrum at the Royal Bank of Scotland now and the devs seem to be taking to it well. Saturday, straight after the course, Cath and I jumped on the Eurostar bound for Paris to catch up with Dad and Lyn. [...]
At the moment I’m reading Becoming a Doctor, New Scientist, PC Extreme, Agile Project Management with Scrum and the handbook for my multimeter. I’ve also created a wishlist on Amazon.co.uk – I keep this updated so anyone who wants to buy me something will know what I want. So far nobody’s taken me up on [...]
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