G’day. So yesterday I tore out some more hair trying to duel with Subversion (SVN). I’m not using the Ankh Visual Studio plugin (as yet). What ended up happening was that somehow SVN got the idea that I wanted to delete a Web.config file. Somehow it got committed, and […]
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OK, enough tech stuff.. time for a sports post. Paul, Joseph.. Skip this entry 🙂 I noticed on the stats page that someone landed on this blog with a search query of "NFL on Foxtel". Thus, this post.. Today I started watching Denver vs San Francisco since ESPN is covering […]
It is with much sadness and a heavy heart that I have to announce the passing of my mother’s father (my grandfather), aged 85. He passed away this morning up in Newcastle, NSW. He leaves behind his wife (my grandmother), a son and daughter (my mother) and three grandchildren. He […]
Another 50 minute drive home. Yesterday, same route, was over an hour (departed 5:30pm, arrived at 6:35pm). That’s roughly 50 minutes to go approx 11 – 15kms. The M2 isn’t much faster, probably averaging out to be between 35 – 45 minutes, plus the healthy $4.60 toll! When […]
OK. So this is going to probably be a controversial posting. Just call me an old crusty code warrior.. but.. It’s no secret I’m wholly unsold on test driven development [wikipedia] (TDD). I have nothing against testing or writing of tests, it is vital to the overall success and stability […]
Today’s whacky statistic: "Total page views: 3995"Yes, that’s right this humble blog has almost hit 4,000 unique visits, or, 2,000 hits per year. Amazing. I wonder who will be the 4,000th visitor? My money’s on an RSS feeder. In other breaking world news of importance. Wallabies dropped the […]
…and the top reasons they’re gonna lose.. Hi.. you guessed it – a sports post.. Tomorrow night marks the culmination of the TriNations series of Rugby Union for 2007. The finale pits New Zealand against Australia for not only the much coveted Bledisloe Cup but also the TriNations trophy […]
Hi Everyone, I’m going to be out of the office for the next few days, potentially through the weekend, so check back soon for more updates.. Cheers R
So, those of you who know me also know that I’m, well, a bit out of shape. To be honest, I’ve been getting progressively worse since wife and I came back to Australia from living abroad. I’ve got over the 80kgs barrier for the first time in my life, […]
Congratulations, Foxtel. The company has committed to 100% digital subscription TV by 2007 (now?). However, as a friend of mine was shocked to discover on the weekend "Digital TV" does not mean High Definition (HDTV) television. Foxtel doesn’t carry any HDTV content, nor can the existing "digital" set […]
Tonight Paul, wife and I went and saw Transformers, the new live action version with the CGI robots. Where to begin….? Firslty, congrats, Michael Bay. This isn’t Pearl Harbor: Redux (thank the merciful heavens!) but was closer to Armageddon (which I liked, for the record). Second thing to keep […]
Hi Everyone, Big shout out to Paul Stovell and Corneliu Tusnea who were also in attendance today at the Australian Architecture Forum in Darling Harbour (Star City casino, actually). Greetings also to Nigel Watson and Chuck Sterling from Microsoft who (together with a number of other fine folk) ran a really great […]
Damn, I thought I’d written a few draft blog entries for easy posting at a later date. Guess what? Nope. Well, I’m sitting here like a deer in headlights trying to remember what I was going to blog about. I never did finish that entry series on Agile estimations.. […]
Tonight I finally zeroed all my credit cards.. wooooo!! What a feeling.. of remorse 🙂 However, it’s nice to turn a corner and be faced with the possibility of maybe, just maybe, being able to retain some of that hard earned paycheck the next month.. It’s been a […]
Let me introduce bash.org with the following quote: <malaclypse> The general rule on about people on IRC seems to be "Attractive, single, mentally stable: choose two" It is with this feeling in mind that bash.org is so funny. If you’re not familiar with IRC then you’ll probably not […]