A random collection of thoughts from an easily bored developer
Up until tonight I was pretty happy with my switch to Thunderbird. I’d migrated over my RSS feeds, for which I was previously using the (admittedly rather cool, as the RSS feeds are almost done at an account level, rather than application level) Outlook 2007 RSS feature, and was busy searching for a replacement calendar [...]
I very rarely see the Gmail front page, as I’ve usually got an active session kicking around on whatever machine I’m using. This means that I never get to see the Gmail blog updates that they feature on the front page. I’m far too lazy to actually subscribe to the Gmail Blog RSS feed (and [...]
My Ubuntu box has actually been up and running since late last year, but I haven’t starting using it as my primary desktop until recently. In its previous life it was a file server, subversion repository and web server. It started off as a 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon install, but I recently upgraded to 8.04 Hardy Heron just in time for my big migration. [...]
Growing up, I managed to take advantage of my older brother’s love of computing to get access to a few different computing platforms at a relatively early age. He’s two years older, so I managed to play around with an ORIC and a Commodore 64 before I was 7. Our”80s computing experience was less “green [...]
After the success of her first programming lesson, my 5 year old daughter was eager to start the next one. Previously we had covered boolean logic and control flow, both of which she had no trouble with, so she was ready for something slightly more complex. I had a few ideas about what to talk [...]