Blogger Categories and Goals It's good to have goals. Even if you fail to meet them. Sometimes especially when you fail to meet them. It's quite widely publicised that at Google we're expected to score 0.7 (on a scale where 0 is a complete failure and 1
Blogger Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes So a couple of things about this website have changed. Perhaps you've noticed. Firstly, I changed the background. Much as I love that dark linen image I was using, it's really obviously "the apple background", which carries connotations I didn't really want
Blogger Wandering Around London Apologies, once again, for the radio silence. Over the past couple of months there have been some complications in my private life, and a remarkable amount of my attention has been taken up with figuring out where exactly I'm going to be living after my current lease runs
Blogger Now We're Blogging with Photos! Fair warning: this is going to be a bit of a programming heavy blog post. It's also going to be quite Mac specific. One of the things I wanted to change about the format of this blog was to make it more visual, specifically with pictures. This first
Blogger New (ish) Year, New (ish) Blog 2011 was an interesting year for me. A lot changed. I turned 30. After 10 years of residency I moved away from Edinburgh, a city I love dearly, and took a job in London. With Google [/blog/tags/google]. As a result, I no longer work with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Blogger The Kaiser Chiefs Do NOT Get to Say They Called This... Well. These are certainly interesting times to be living in London. Interesting times to be living in England full stop, in fact. In particular, I definitely picked an ideal time to move to Clapham. I have a bad habit of being more or less completely oblivious to what's
Blogger The Sound of One Hand Clapping... ...would make significantly more noise than I have on this blog, as of late. There are a couple of reasons for this. The main one is that I don't actually have the internet in my new flat yet, and won't for another 9 days. Bloody Virgin
Blogger The Process and the Platform The effort required to actually publish that last post [/2011/06/03/in-which-i-go-full-nerd-2] was... considerable. Several factors contributed to this: * I have slow internet access at my hotel; * Currently, my only (full) computer is my work laptop; * This doesn't have iPhoto installed (this is mostly for reasons of
Blogger Spicy! What, in your opinion, qualifies something as a good advert? Answers on postcard, or alternatively in the comments section below, if you find that easier. In the technical sense the main thing is surely that you actually end up buying the product in question. In terms of absolute results, I
Blogger A Short Note Regarding the Deafening Silence For a while there it really looked as though I was on top of this whole blogging lark, didn't it? The problem is that writing this blog (and to an even greater extent, working on the Clockwork Aphid project) doesn't feel like procrastinating. It feels like
Blogger Identity As you may or may not know, I'm currently in Australia. In fact, I've now been here for a little over a month. I'll blog about it sooner or later, but not yet. This is largely because I don't know what I&
Blogger An Open Letter Dear Road User, Should you be located in the UK and in possession of an automobile, you may have noticed a strange lever positioned to the left of your steering wheel (the circular device which changes the direction of your car). If you are of the inquisitive sort you may
Blogger Is it still limping if you're doing it with both legs? On Friday night I went to the Silent Disco and danced away until 4 am. On the whole I think it was excellent. I think it (or some progression of it) might well be the future of night clubs. It was £10 entry, which might seem a little expensive, but
Blogger Starting again... again. Blogging. By my count I've had three previous attempts (on different services), none of which has entirely worked out. The problems which cause this to be are multiple, but two in particular tend to stand out. Firstly, I tend to write long rambling posts which take a lot
