22:03, Tuesday February 17th, 2004 • feeling relaxed • no comments
Sorry, haven't been in a bloggy mood recently. Got to write up Kenya, but at the same time work is grindingly hard at the minute and so leaves little time for free thinking.
I just wanted to comment on the passing of Webmonkey, which has announced it's closing. It's such a sad thing. Webmonkey taught me how to do HTML. I wouldn't have my career if it wasn't for Mulder's CSS tutorial, Thau's JS tutorial and all the rest. I've referred countless people to the site to cut their web teeth and I don't know where I'll point them to now. I hope that somebody steps up to save them, or just to keep the site up.
2:38, Friday February 13th, 2004 • feeling reflective • no comments
Brainfuck fucked my brain. It's an interesting language to program in, modeling a very simple computer really, requiring extensive thought about the underlying fabric of my computer. I use if and while a whole lot so I think it's good that I should have to think about how those constructs are implemented at the next level down. Brainfuck provides some of that insight.
The funniest bit was when I went to Dorkbot last night and was trying to tell a guy I met at the Furtherfield party about Brainfuck. He'd not heard of it, so I asked another programmer I'd met there if he'd done any Brainfuck, I said it just as the room went quiet in preparation for the next talk. "Yeah mate, I can sort you out some Brainfuck, how much do you need? Yeah wicked mate."
Other than that I've just been working really. Greg has joined the team and is getting up to speed on much of the stuff that I've been doing in the last year. That's no mean feat, and at first I overestimated Greg's ability to become productive. That's not a criticism of Greg in any way, I was way off when I thought he would be able to start producing code in the first days. So I've scaled my expectations back to something approaching normal, giving Greg space to work on a testing system in VB, which he knows, and to become familiar with the new ground.
Well, back to cold grey England, slightly dazed but getting into the routine again. I've got work to do today indeed.
We got back on Friday morning at about nine, I delt with 1,297 emails and then passed out. Since then I've been pottering around and spending a lot of time on my photo gallery.
On which note, I have hacked the gallery so that it paginates the list of galleries, so I can have more than ten, and uploaded the following sets of photos, finally:
2:28, Friday January 16th, 2004 • feeling relaxed • no comments
Might post from Nairobi or Mombasa, but quite possibly won't. Look after yourselves until I'm back! Don't hack into anything and break stuff. Be nice to your fellow man, etc, etc. Probably will have the hugest mother of posts when I get back. Hometime is the 30th, though it'll be months before I write it all up, if Italy is anything to go by.
