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08 Feb 2012
It’s all Dickens, Dickens, Dickens this week! So a timely moment to mention that, at the day job, I worked on this: www.whatthedickens.org
07 Feb 2012
Two months later, and my initial CrashPlan backup has just finished uploading (all 80GB of it).
31 Jan 2012
At the day job: another phase of work for our large mobile phone customer has been keeping me plenty busy…
12 Jan 2012
I welcome the proposals to get kids learning to program while still in school (see new reports here, here and here), but I wonder whether we have the teaching skills to carry it off? Then again, maybe this will tempt experienced programmers into teaching roles…
03 Jan 2012
If kids really are the future, how come mine get to spend another day watching Thundercats in their pyjamas while I have to go back to work?
02 Jan 2012
Not hating PHP as much as I remember. I suppose a change really is as good as a rest.
21 Dec 2011
Don’t know how to write this without sounding like an infomercial, but I notice that the PortableApps team released a big update this month, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. I’ve been using PortableApps for years now to take the pain out of using multiple desktops and laptops - and to top it off, it’s free :o)
13 Dec 2011
Been looking at cloud backup options for a while, and though we’re giving SpiderOak a spin in the office, at home I’ve started a trial of CrashPlan (unlimited storage and rock bottom prices are pretty compelling reasons!)
07 Dec 2011
Found out that one of our bigger PubliSite website’s has racked up a tasty 4 million visits this year! That’s visits, not hits!
06 Dec 2011
GMail SMTP servers seem to be down. Still, I suppose you get what you pay for, which in my case is diddly squat.
05 Dec 2011
At the day job: working on some updates to the Reckitt Benckiser corporate website
14 Nov 2011
Can’t say I’d heard of Bias Lighting until reading about it on Jeff Atwood’s blog. I’m pretty keen on good lighting when working at the screen for long periods (which I do every day), so I’ve just installed a lamp behind my monitor to see if it makes any difference…
03 Nov 2011
At the day job: seeing if SpiderOak can help improve our brittle server backup process…
01 Nov 2011
Big conference in London today on “cyberspace security”. Always fun to listen to hacks, pundits and especially politicians sounding uncomfortable while trying to use nerd terminology. When was the last time anyone referred to themselves as a “cyberuser”!?
13 Oct 2011
Second time I’ve upgraded my iPad’s firmware, second time the process has thrown errors, corrupting the device, requiring a full restore. I don’t share this “user friendly, it just works” perception of Apple products. You can judge software quality by how well it copes when things *don’t* work - standard modal error dialogs with 4 digit error codes are not exactly user friendly…
30 Sep 2011
At the day job: having fun adding a new Event Calendar API to our PubliSite CMS (implemented as JSON payloads over HTTP). Once this is done we can finally release v.4.17!
23 Sep 2011
I wonder what happens when a link to one of your websites gets tweeted by Stephen Fry (with his 3 million followers)? I believe we’re about to find out…
26 Aug 2011
Just created a Zerply profile: zerp.ly/ceriwilliams (not entirely sure why, but apparently it’s all the rage)
18 Aug 2011
iPad semi-bricking itself during a routine software update - not cool! iPad restoring apps and data successfully from backup, even down to the open browser tabs - faith restored :o)
15 Aug 2011
Finally upgraded our trusty Humax PVR-8000T to a PVR-9300T. The 8000T served us well for over 7 years, definitely one of my best tech purchases. I only hope the 9300T can fill it’s little brother’s big boots.
11 Aug 2011
Ah, good old British Summer weather - it’s nature’s water cannon! Who wants to go looting/rioting in wet daps and a soggy Cagoule?
15 Jul 2011
At the day job: started working on phase 2 of our project for a large mobile phone company that wishes to remain anonymous…
10 Jul 2011
Just arrived at the world of Google+. It’s pretty quiet at the moment…
05 Jul 2011
At the day job: updating our internal task management app to allow clients to submit tasks directly - eek!
03 Jul 2011
Thanks to my ancestors for fighting bravely, but ultimately losing the American War of Independence, so that me and my fellow British iPad owners might enjoy cheap iPad apps in the 4th July App Store sales.
30 Jun 2011
So the US army spends over $20 BILLION a year on air conditioning!? - Stay Frosty (man I hope I’m first with that joke, poor though it is)
27 Jun 2011
The Stack Overflow Dev Days conference sounds like a fun mish mash of technology goodness. Not sure I could justify the entry fee though. Makes me appreciate just how much of this sort of thing Microsoft puts on for free…
14 Jun 2011
Finally gave in to my Apple cravings and bought myself an iPad (albeit a refurbished iPad1)
10 Jun 2011
Realised today that I’ve had the same mobile phone number since 1998! And the same email address almost as long. Though in the same space of time I’ve lived at 10 different postal addresses… (I may as well just move into cyberspace and be done with it. On another note, who the hell says “cyberspace” !?!)
07 Jun 2011
This week, I am mostly drooling over the Asus EeePad Transformer TF101.
01 Jun 2011
Incredible drawing: Solitude - A Work In Progress. Makes me want to sharpen my pencils :o)
26 May 2011
Had a chance to try out the Advent Vega and Archos 101 Android tablets recently. Didn’t enjoy the Vega experience at all, but the 101 is tempting (despite an inferior screen that screams “you get what you pay for”, and “I am not an iPad!”)
23 May 2011
At the day job: just finished working on a project for a major mobile phone company (who I’m not allowed to mention - it’s like having my own mini super-injunction!)