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    Email sent in response to the vision thing geekup email

    Start here to see what this is in response to. ... how many of you go back to the pre-web days? I do - graduated in 1987, I've had to practically start again 3 or 4 times in the last 20 years - Un

    Comments (0) . Monday, 31 March 2008

    Phorm are those 121 timewasters? Great! Now I know who to send the bill to!

    Comment left here  Didn't realise that phorm were the timewasting bastards who were behind 121 - spent many a happy hour trying to get rid of their viral nonsense from a machine my then 10 year old son was using (no idea how they got past hi

    Comments (0) . Monday, 17 March 2008

    The Met have gone mad - glad I live in Merseyside

    Bloody hell! Although I suppose it might save us from tourists (joke, definitely joke, I hope). Is there any forum you can have a go at them about wasting public money? There's an idea - why not get off your backsides and do your job preventing i

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    DHH the windows hater - or maybe needs to think a bit before he spouts off?

    Comment left here  I am a Rails developer who uses a proper IDE (Netbeans for Ruby) and Windows. Installed Cygwin to give me the bash shell and the other tools I need to talk to our Linux server backbones. I started on Unix/Sun workstations, wen

    Comments (0) . Friday, 7 March 2008

    Java is bad for your brain talk at Barcamp Manchester

    Following on from the talk I tried to give on why Java is bad for your brain at Barcamp I thought I'd dig out some of my old blog posts and present them here - try and explain the argument (which is more of a feeling

    Comments (0) . Monday, 3 March 2008