Not sure where the error on this page came from and I won’t be able to have a look at it until tonight.
Another release
A new design is going out for one of our apps this morning so it was a crack of sparrow start to get into the office by 07:30. It’s a relatively minor release but it’s always better to take them seriously so that nothing goes wrong. Hopefully this will be…
Cool (For Mozilla users only)
If you use Mozilla (Firefox et al) then visit this link. It’s an XML Forms based structure. Doesn’t work in IE unfortunately but very interesting. More about it can be found at XULPlanet.com
Excellent Weekend
The end of a really good weekend. I headed back down to London on Saturday, originally planning to do the Saatchi gallery before going out in the evening but because the weather was so appalling I decided just to relax in the pub and have a few beers. Dinner in…
Password quality
A very good article about password quality. When you see the maths behind brute force attacks it will make you think very carefully the next time you choose a password.
Another week, another stay down in London
A few of us went for some beers after work last night (it was meant to be more but the dedication to the cause here is sometimes lacking). So we put the world to rights, hatched plans for world domination… all the usual stuff and finished with a pizza. Advancing…
Bizarre Stats
An article on the BBC News website states that: Overall, the study found that 51.5% of babies born to couples living together at the time of conception were boys, compared to 49.9% among parents who were not. A couple of issues with this: 1) Why is this interesting, I can’t…
Office facing increasing competition
As things currently stand, MS Office has total control over the word processing / spreadsheet / presentation market. There are a few little minows nibbling at Microsoft’s feet but until now there has not been a compelling argument to switch. However, the advent of the open source office suites (Open…
Not much happening
Things are pretty quiet at the moment, we are between development rounds of our systems, the party season is in flux between end of the Summer and beginning of the Christmas rounds (already several booked for late November and early December). I did manage to sell my old laptop on…