We’ve been making our own burgers at home for a while now. Well I saw we, but Rebecca is a veggie so while we both make them, only I get to eat them. We don’t make them very often but when we do we try and make them better than before — that’s the fun [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Thunderbird 2.0
Friday, April 27, 2007
Thunderbird 2.0 is out. Yay! Nothing earth shattering on the release notes though.
This doesn’t have anything to do with Thunderbird 2.0 directly, but I have a rant to vent about GMail.
All my work related email is stored in a spiffy Exchange server at work. Exchange is pretty fab, you can access your email through IMAP, [...]
Playstation 2 architecture
Thursday, April 26, 2007
I quite like the Playstation 2 architecture. It has some really nice big bits of development equipment that look great on your desk, loads of scope for twiddling and tweaking, plus you can have propper technichal programmer conversation about through-put, DMA chains, assembler and vertical blank interrupts still.
All that said, today I was reading the [...]
Cayenne Pepper
Saturday, April 21, 2007
I finally worked out why my Chillies were bordering on by being inedible, and were akin to eating molten lava. I kept reducing the amount of chilli in the seasoning to no avail when I eventually decided to taste all the spices individually to see what might be adding the magma effect. Cayenne pepper is [...]
Elegant solutions
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Since we’re starting some new projects soon, I’ve had a chance to work on framework code in anticipation of full production. This is always great fun as you get to have a stab at solving existing problems elegantly since you have the largest solution space. I like trying to find elegant solutions however during production [...]