The life and times of a software and web developer
The secondary school I went to didn't have a sixth form - so after taking your GCSE exams, you had to make a choice between moving to the sixth form at Burford - the pretend grammar school a few miles away, or West Oxforshire Technical College - a few miles in the other direction. During …
Another excerpt from this year's NaNoWriMo - Enjoy! I'm sitting here, trying to remember the most significant memories from my time at secondary school - and struggling somewhat. It's all become so fragmented - it feels like a collection of snapshots, stored away inside my head. The strange thing about memories is that they unlock …
Miss 17 received her exam results this morning. The good news? She's on the design course next year that she failed to quality for this year. The bad news? She will have to repeat another year of English and Maths to improve her exam grades. Again. I'm caught between being happy, frustrated, and sad. I'm …
We spent the greater part of yesterday evening sitting in a packed auditorium at the big school in town - watching a local celebrity hand out awards to students throughout the school. Of course our main reason for being there was to watch Miss 14 receive an award for her cooking exploits. A local celebrity …
Last night I joined the staff table for a fund-raising quiz-night at the local infant school - the one my other half works at. I've been to countless similar functions in the past, but never as part of the staff team.Did you know how many timezones there are in China? Or which family of animals …
This week seems to be going on indefinitely. I'm sure there's an end to it somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure where that might be. It probably doesn't help that I've been head-down on development this week - making changes to perhaps the biggest code-base I ever worked on, and for a huge client. It's …
This morning was... interesting. By "interesting", I probably mean lots of other words, but I'm unsure if I should write them down or not. Some of them will be swear words, some of them will by hyperbole, and some of them will be expressions of disbelief.Let's just shorten what could be a long, angry, depressing …
A friend challenged my apparent lack of faith earlier this evening, causing me to really think about my opposition to “faith”. It’s worth pointing out that I have no problem with people believing whatever they want to believe - as long as they respect my freedom not to share their belief.In the process of thinking …
Tonight you find me sitting in the dark of the junk room, listening to the “Favourite Coffeehouse” playlist on Spotify, with an incense stick burning on the corner of the desk. I guess you could call it “decompression”.Most of the day was spent either on the phone, or struggling to figure out how to make …
In the grand tradition of discovering movies thirty years after everybody else, I finally sat and watched "Adventures in Babysitting" this evening with Miss 16. I finally get it - I get the whole thing about Elizabeth Shue, and I finally understand Jeff Winger in Community making such a big deal about Britta looking like …
