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'ello!
erm.. what shall i say..
i'm a full time web designer/developer (like every other fucker). mucking about in photoshop is more or less the only creative outlet i get..
i don't have my own website as the last thing i want to do when i get home from work is more web development.
i like ale, derek & clive, hard sci-fi, ale, warp records, macs, bladerunner, ale, anime, and ale.
errr. thassit.
cheers!
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'ello!
erm.. what shall i say..
i'm a full time web designer/developer (like every other fucker). mucking about in photoshop is more or less the only creative outlet i get..
i don't have my own website as the last thing i want to do when i get home from work is more web development.
i like ale, derek & clive, hard sci-fi, ale, warp records, macs, bladerunner, ale, anime, and ale.
errr. thassit.
cheers!
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» It was a great holiday, but...
this question
makes me feel a lot better about the rarity of our family holidays.
back to the obligatory tale: when i was about 7 my dad got me a tent, which proceeded to lie unused in the garage over the winter. unfortunately by the summer earwigs has laid their eggs in one of the hollow tubes, and the entire thing was full of the little bastards, running about and scaring the shit out of my young self. the tent went back in the garage and was never taken out again.
(Fri 22nd Apr 2005, 12:13, More)
this question
makes me feel a lot better about the rarity of our family holidays.
back to the obligatory tale: when i was about 7 my dad got me a tent, which proceeded to lie unused in the garage over the winter. unfortunately by the summer earwigs has laid their eggs in one of the hollow tubes, and the entire thing was full of the little bastards, running about and scaring the shit out of my young self. the tent went back in the garage and was never taken out again.
(Fri 22nd Apr 2005, 12:13, More)
» Useless Information
dark matter
didn't (initially) have anything to do with the age of the universe: it was discovered because you can weigh a galaxy (by seeing how fast it rotates), and when astronomers added up all the visible gas and dust (and stars), it didn't nearly account for the observed mass.
on a similar note, roughly 10,000,000,000,000 neutrinos go through your body every second.
(Fri 18th Mar 2005, 13:55, More)
dark matter
didn't (initially) have anything to do with the age of the universe: it was discovered because you can weigh a galaxy (by seeing how fast it rotates), and when astronomers added up all the visible gas and dust (and stars), it didn't nearly account for the observed mass.
on a similar note, roughly 10,000,000,000,000 neutrinos go through your body every second.
(Fri 18th Mar 2005, 13:55, More)
» Job Interviews
consultants
went for an interview with an IT consultancy. the bloke on the phone interview had already irritated me. i was given a java exam despite having pointed out i didn't know any java (recruitment scum must have lied on my behalf). anyway, the interviewer was a real snooty cow and i decided halfway through i wasn't interested and started winding her up. i think i made a good case arguing that it was more important for a consultant to appear honest than to be honest, and conveying my generally low opinion of her profession :)
some years later i was interviewing this lass to be a PHP developer; not only did she fail to answer any of the questions on the written exam i set (i'm a bastard, me ;-) ) but:
"in XML, what are the pros and cons of DOM versus stream/event based parsing?"
"err.. i don't know"
"you've got XML written on your CV, right here"
"um"
next!
(Thu 20th Jan 2005, 17:50, More)
consultants
went for an interview with an IT consultancy. the bloke on the phone interview had already irritated me. i was given a java exam despite having pointed out i didn't know any java (recruitment scum must have lied on my behalf). anyway, the interviewer was a real snooty cow and i decided halfway through i wasn't interested and started winding her up. i think i made a good case arguing that it was more important for a consultant to appear honest than to be honest, and conveying my generally low opinion of her profession :)
some years later i was interviewing this lass to be a PHP developer; not only did she fail to answer any of the questions on the written exam i set (i'm a bastard, me ;-) ) but:
"in XML, what are the pros and cons of DOM versus stream/event based parsing?"
"err.. i don't know"
"you've got XML written on your CV, right here"
"um"
next!
(Thu 20th Jan 2005, 17:50, More)
» Useless Information
the centre of the earth
is hotter than the surface of the sun
(oh, and a duck's quack does indeed echo)
(Thu 17th Mar 2005, 16:06, More)
the centre of the earth
is hotter than the surface of the sun
(oh, and a duck's quack does indeed echo)
(Thu 17th Mar 2005, 16:06, More)
» World's Most Hated Food
various
i was traumatised by school fish pie as a child. it was yellow, stinking, and crunchy with bones. consequently i don't eat any kind of fish, or most seafood.
marmite is the devil's toe jam. plus, there's this stinking old guy at work, who shared with us that he likes having marmite licked off his balls.
oddly, i quite like liver, sprouts, and even celery.
(Fri 16th Jul 2004, 13:29, More)
various
i was traumatised by school fish pie as a child. it was yellow, stinking, and crunchy with bones. consequently i don't eat any kind of fish, or most seafood.
marmite is the devil's toe jam. plus, there's this stinking old guy at work, who shared with us that he likes having marmite licked off his balls.
oddly, i quite like liver, sprouts, and even celery.
(Fri 16th Jul 2004, 13:29, More)