Archives for A Programmers Life

Strange Cats & Broken PDA's

Well today marks the end of a quite weird weekend my cat, Alex, has had a quite traumatized weekend. For some reason she got spooked and was afraid of everything and anything. The washing basket, feet etc. and both Merinda and I are a little worse for the wear. You know cats and all. So [...]

Free Coffee For MEEEEE!

Almost a year ago I noted that work was charging for coffee but today the rain of coffee terror is over. I am now blessed with free coffee once again. So start the shaky hand claps and once again my body will be filled with delightfully flavoured legal drug :).

Geek Strength

Well I just can’t win just a day after I got rid of the Band-Aid on one hand I get a blister on the other. I can never seem to win with this car thing, one week I crunch another I had a battery that needed a jump start. This week it’s the radiator yet [...]

Names and Tags

I also took the Band-Aid off my finger for real today and it’s been very strange. It wasn’t too bad typing with the finger incapacitated but now with it working again it feels really strange as though all of the nerves in the finger have become more sensitive it is quite disconcerting actually and I [...]

Rant Alert!

Well everyone is up for a good rant at some time or another and today is time for mine. We have a credit card, sometimes I really wonder if it is worth it, and we needed to fill in an identification form for the secondary card holder. However we were only told of this 6 [...]

Ouch

Well today is an interesting one it started off normal but before I had even got to work this morning it had gone down the proverbial gurgler. On my route to work which takes me about an hour I go through one set of traffic lights which with two right hand turning lanes. Today there [...]

Downtime

Hey all. It’s been a while but hey buildtolean’s mysql server was down for about 5 days making blogging impossible and made me start to thing whether or not it is time to move to a more stable provider. Possibly one I would pay for. But hey I’m a tight arse and I’m not going [...]

Software Engineering

It’s been a long time since my last post, in that time I have moved house, done summer school and started full time work. And that goodness for that last point I am so sick of study. Only one more exam tomorrow to go yey. Anyway today I came across such a great article that [...]

Woooo Ho

I Passed Now it’s only this summer school subject to go now and then it’s all over and I get to goto work and forget about Uni. And go to my job where work stays at work and I can just get on with being a Software Engineer.

Summer School

Well today I started summer school, o yey, doing Professional Issues in Information Technology and as most people who read this would know the first lecture consists of watch i, robot and writing an essay on it. But lucky me with the accelerated course doesn’t get the week to write the essay I get just [...]