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    Identity cards in the UK

    I had hoped, with the change of government here, we might finally have someone with half a brain in charge of the home office. Nope. Strong believer in ID cards.This is an interesting one. They've already coughed to £5.4 billion, the LSE es

    Comments (0) . Friday, 29 June 2007

    Mind mapping and development work

    I've recently got into the habit of having a Free Mind window open as well as my editor or whatever, it means I can jot things down in a mind map so I can go back to them later. It works with programming and development work too, obviously not th

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 26 June 2007

    Kate Bush and other stuff

    I got a cheap CD of The Hounds of Love. Which I'd only been trying to find the tape for a couple of days earlier. I'd forgotten how good she was/is. She can sing she has feelings that she's not afraid to express. People used to mock her f

    Comments (0) . Saturday, 23 June 2007

    Archive Fragments

    For those of you who don't know, this is my current novel. I finished the latest draft a couple of weeks ago but wasn't happy with it at all. It didn't end properly and I used another character to narrate us past the boring bits (or at le

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 12 June 2007

    Ruby on Rails Development Environment on Windoze

    I've been reading a lot about the Pragmatic Programmers using TextMate on Macs as their preferred environment. I wanted to see what this was like but couldn't because I can't afford a Mac at the moment.Discovered the 'E' text edit

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 12 June 2007

    Egad! Still ill

    Carrying on from previous entry: I'm still not well, on day 5 now. My ear infection decided to check out the other ear and then move down into my nose (gave me a stinking cold). Almost OK today but get a little dizzy when I move about. I'm ha

    Comments (0) . Monday, 4 June 2007

    Moving on again

    Got head hunted by some people that I was interviewed by a while ago. Will involve yet another small pay cut, but I'll be using half the petrol and I did some calculations that imply I might be slightly better off, in fact. Also the car will last

    Comments (0) . Friday, 1 June 2007