My partner Rob and I have been together for nearly seven years now. Today we went to the Manchester Register Office and we registered our intent to form a Civil Partnership on the 10th of April this y…

Is it bad that when I saw Zoy’s posting about etch-related stress all I could think was “oooh pretty reflections!” ?

…Apologies to Genesis Code with me, My friend I hope you’ll always be Right here by my side if ever I need you Oh my friend With your tests, I feel so safe and so secure Every task is such a perfect j…

I was trying to purchase a TV for my partner’s mother’s mother who is chair-bound and whose television has recently died. I visited the online presence of a well known UK retailer and attempted to ord…

Sometimes it’s easy to assume that everyone is at least vaguely sensible about source code they release on the world. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that out there are idiots who will attempt to fleece…

The following is a suitably anonymised report about some source code which recently passed before me. You just can’t make this stuff up, some people really don’t know how to produce good code… PROJEC…

Today sees the fourth pre-release of Aranha — “The Kaldorei Spider Kabob”. Aranha is a FastCGI responder based on the Lua programming language and is under heavy development. The language has been ext…

Courtesy of Clive I was pointed at this patent which at first glance looks to be as obscure and impenetrable as one has grown to expect from a system which was meant to be for patently clear descripti…

Tonight I went and saw the new Bond film Casino Royale at the local cinema. It was bloody good and I recommend it to any Bond fan. They’ve recovered from Brosnan’s last travesty incredibly well. And f…