5 am

Reading time: < 1 min It’s still dark and somewhere two birds are singing, beautiful trills and chirrups fill the air. My head is full of other things though, but then it usually is, and right now it seems to be full of random thoughts about work. Which is why, I think, I’m awake. I’m a bit pissed off with…

Highs and Lows

Reading time: 2 mins Saturday morning, a list clutched in my hand as we ventured out early. A few things to buy, a couple of things to do, a productive day stretched ahead. Saturday afternoon, things have been bought, and one item on the list has been started but not finished. This is largely due to the rapid onset…

The Wrong Domain

Reading time: < 1 min For a few years now I’ve randomly been checking the WHOIS records for the mclean.co.uk domain, and throughout that time it’s sat there, holding nothing but adverts and any attempt by me to contact the owner with a view to purchasing said domain for a “reasonable” fee have fallen on increasingly deaf ears. Yes, it’s…

Further Webhelp hacking

Reading time: < 1 min I mentioned in my previous post that we run a webhelp build of our content (a.k.a. our Knowledge Centre) on our developer community website, and that it was hosted in an iframe. I thought it worthwhile fleshing out the detail of that as it includes a bit of custom code some others might find useful.…

I was in London

Reading time: 2 mins And there I met some people I know, and some I don’t know, and hobnobbed with celebrities (not really), and ate and drank and walked about a lot and even went and stood in a big black box that was very very dark indeed. The main reason I was in London was to attend a…

Change of Venue

Reading time: < 1 min Survived last nights party, just, and now I’m ready for more! Having now had a look at the bar we had arranged to meet in, think it will be better in the National Film Theatre bar (the one round the back not the one facing the water). It’s only 2 mins from the previous suggestion…