Learning Lessons

Reading time: 2 mins I love making mistakes. Really I do. Sure they can be painful, costly and time consuming but let’s look at the positives here, every time you make a mistake you can learn something new. How great is that! As part of our release cycle, we conduct a series of retrospective meetings, one per team, in…

My Firefox 3

Reading time: 3 mins So I’ve been living with Firefox 3 for a week or so now and I’ve pretty much got it under control. Here’s what my current browser window looks like. As you can see it’s fairly customised, mainly to cut down on space and makes use of some rather nifty extensions.

End on a good note

Reading time: < 1 min So, the past week has been a little hectic. At work it was the end of a product release cycle which is usually a little busy, I’m preparing to start handling the translation requirements for the product, and I was also (still am!) trying to get a new website up and running (it’s a whole…

Redirecting Question

Reading time: < 1 min Note: This is a techie question, all those not interested, look away now. (and no, I’m not doing very well at the whole ‘staying away from the blog to be productive thing…) [update]SORTED!!! That nice man wot writes Hydragenic came through for me (apparently he would ‘not be defeated’, he cracked it second time round).…

Eight years and counting

Reading time: < 1 min Blimey. So much has happened since I started this blog it’s mind-boggling to consider it all. So I won’t. Just thought I’d mark the occasion, eight years since my first proper blog post (10 since my first “personal homepage”). So, just to reiterate, blimey.

BBIAB

Reading time: < 1 min The next fortnight is a little hectic for me, all work related, as it’s “release week” this week and “retrospective week” next week. I won’t have much free time so this is your advanced warning that: I haven’t died. I am not lying in a hospital after a freak tea related accident. I have not…