recently i haven’t been doing a huge amount of hard-core coding but this week i have got back into java in a big way. i am writing a couple of servlets to use for a few different projects. it’s always amazing how quickly you forget the minutae of programming. it’s taken hours to get going…

if you haven’t signed up for this weekly mail drop you should… now… before it gets closed down. sample for this week: “More than anything on this earth, Komodo Dragons are the creature that represents evil. If it were up to me, I’d just shoot those sons of bitches.” – Billy Bob Thornton

it is true, you’ll notice that there is now a comment option against each blog entry. i have not done any testing on it yet but i thought i’d put it up anyway and see how it goes. so go for it!

a most bizarre morning it was the queen mother’s funeral this morning and our office, like the rest of the country, had a 2 minutes silence, except that our secretary made some extra rules like “if you don’t agree with this then please leave the building!”. so about half the office went and stood outside…

if you work in the internet industry it isn’t long until someone points you to have a look at jakob nielsen’s site “useit“. to be honest i disagree with a lot of what he says and i dislike his site but then who am i to comment?