Ian RentonBlog Archive — Page 27
These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
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Multitasking, the new "Doing Things"
I am beginning to wonder if it is possible for me to single-task anymore. Breakfast occurs to the backdrop of Twitter, Facebook and the most important overnight events as synthesised into Google Reader. Conversations occur against a background of web-surfing and social networking, and most often these days, these conversations...
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Breaking Out of Twitter
Earlier this evening, @HolyHaddock linked to an entry on Brian Hurt’s blog entitled “Why I Quit Twitter”. In it, he argues for his leaving Twitter on the grounds that it is not a good place for debate and extended discussion: If you want to debate me, I’m open to it....
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The Perils of Gas Supply
So, I got home today to discover a nice polite letter put under our flat door. This enlightened us to the fact that representatives of the energy company E-on had tried to visit today “to discuss any problems [I] may have paying”, and that I should contact them as soon...
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Semicolon Rage
Yesterday, I had a simple if statement. It looked like this: if ((Frames.FramesLdPtr>Frames.FramesUlPtr) && (InterPFlags.RequestInitialisation==0)) { doSomeStuff(); // with function and variable names that might be classified =S } This should not trigger under normal circumstances, but for some reason it triggered repeatedly, every second or so. Breakpointing inside the...
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Behold, AutoMouse! [Product Announce]
Apple, Razer, Logitech - you have nothing on this. Yes this, ladies and gentlemen, is the greatest advancement in input peripheral technology to date and - if I may be so bold - the best mouse you will ever see. Gone are the risks of RSI in your index finger,...
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Fighting the Winter
Icy roads delayed my lift leaving the house for an hour and a half this morning, whereupon he discovered that the ice had also broken his driver’s door lock, making driving impossible for today. At half past nine, I was finally on my way to work. Alone, trudging through snow...
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Farewell, Noughties
Ten years ago today, I was sitting in the house of a friend’s grandparents, drinking champagne that I didn’t really like, and watching some celebrity or other count down the minutes and seconds to the year 2000. We stood on the cusp of the third millennium, wondering what the future...
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Book Review: The Book of Mormon (!?)
Last night, in an attempt to rectify my broken sleep patterns, I sought out the most dull work of fiction in the house so that I could bore myself to sleep. My choice, understandably one might think, was the Book of Mormon, which we got from a couple of missionaries...
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SuccessWhale is Terrifying
On 29th August, I released my PHP/JavaScript Twitter client, SuccessWhale. I would like to take this opportunity to say HOLY FUCK. Monthly bandwidth limits are things I’ve always ignored, assuming they only become important when one’s website is popular - which mine, assuredly, is not. But having seen that graph,...
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2009 in Thoughts, Words and Pictures
It is a very strange feeling indeed to increasingly shuffle towards adulthood whilst also having a young child of your own. Time twists and stretches, unsure of which way it ought to bend. There is the adult mind for which time is speeding up, one year blurring into the next...