Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
Australia in all its cultural majesty has co-opted yet another foreign tradition: hallowe’en. An ancient pagan European tradition celebrating the movement of dark forces through the night. The Americans took...
Read ArticleThe agile family of software development methodologies is now pretty firmly established. Developers have always been some of the most firm supporters of these approaches. And as developers, we like...
Read ArticleThere are now nine people in the world who have walked on the moon, and unless something dramatic happens …, it won't be long before there are none. That might...
Read ArticleI’ve been wondering why I dislike twitter hashtag memes so much. But it’s pretty obvious really: it doesn’t matter how unexpected and funny the original concept was, the world has...
Read ArticleIn a potentially vain attempt to improve my photography I took the Australian Centre for Photography’s introductory Camera Craft One course. I enjoyed it, learnt a lot and, at least...
Read ArticleThe Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
Read ArticleSo, if you're going to manage to convince the world to change the way it does something, it had better have an benefit that's immediately obvious and take no more...
Read ArticleWatchmen Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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