Monthly Archives: December 2004

Localisation

Posted on December 17, 2004 by Andrew

I was in conversation today with someone who does business over the internet. They were grumbling that Americans keep entering dates in their web forms the wrong way round, so an event that’s supposed to be recorded as 11/12/04 gets … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-16

Posted on December 16, 2004 by delicious

Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development (categories: development xp) MacMerc.com: Routine Maintenance (categories: mac)

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Dark Materials

Posted on December 16, 2004 by Andrew

Finally got my hands on the Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. I’ve been meaning to read them for quite some time following recommendations from a whole range of people, but never found the time. So far, they are pretty … Continue reading →

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Dear Vodafone ….

Posted on December 16, 2004 by Andrew

Dear Vodafone, Get the fsck out of my face. So far I have received four MMS spams from you: all identical, all incredibly dull and badly-formatted. My GPRS connection is permanently on trying to receive more, and my battery is … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-15

Posted on December 15, 2004 by delicious

Use Case Zone – How to write Software Requirements (categories: analysis usecase) Web services programming tips and tricks: Use case modeling tips (categories: usecase) SimpleDateFormat (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2) (categories: java reference)

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Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime

Posted on December 13, 2004 by Andrew

Whilst at my sister’s this weekend, we all watched The Incredibles on pirate DVD. The DVD was bought by my sister from a friend of a friend, for £5. Two stories in my aggregator today happily coincide with something I’ve … Continue reading →

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House work

Posted on December 13, 2004 by Andrew

I took the opportunity of driving a van this weekend (picking up some furniture from relatives) to take a pile of stuff to the city dump. I now have much clearer cupboards, ready for a bit of reorganisation and tidying … Continue reading →

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fascinated by “age of mythology”

Posted on December 12, 2004 by Andrew
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Digital bloater

Posted on December 10, 2004 by Andrew

The beeb writes about how Britons are growing ‘digitally obese’, carting round virtual truckloads of data with us since the advent of hard drive-based gadgets like the iPod. They say “if digital hoarding habits continue on this scale, people could … Continue reading →

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working in the otego offices

Posted on December 10, 2004 by Andrew

Enhanced i’m sure you’ll agree by the presence of two macs

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