Uncle Joan

Uncle Joan

This weekend Sooz and I flew to Dublin to see my brother and his family. We had a great time and we look forward to seeing them soon. It was nice to see my little nephew Jack again. He certainly gets his good looks from his uncle: While in Ireland I was also pleased...
Usability

Usability

I had an interesting discussion with Aq the other day regarding Fitts Law and how important it is. One of my cynicism’s with usability has been the real and tangible effect that a usability theory actually has on the audience. As much I agree that Fitts Law does...
Uncle Joan

Banger cont.

Thanks for all the nice comments about Banger. He seems to be settling in now, and is becoming much more content with his new home and his lifestyle. He is a very playful little pup, and after some time darting around the place and playing with his toys, he cordially...
Bacon and sausage

Bacon and sausage

First of all, thanks to everyone who voted for Seraphidian in the Snickers Unsigned competition. Today is the final day of the vote and I have been informed that the three winning bands will be notified of the result tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed! We have had a...
I need your help!!

I need your help!!

OK folks, I really need your support here! As I mentioned in a previous entry, my band Seraphidian have been finalised as one of the top 10 bands to play at the huge Download festival in the UK; a prize that also includes making a single, a music video and basically...
Its coming

Its coming

First of all, thanks so much for all the kind comments about the new book. Thanks so much! 🙂 Today has been interesting. Got into work and fixed up some loose ends with some work. I then started sorting out some bug reports that I have reported (this and this), and...
Bacon and sausage

Yes!

I am a happy boy. Yes, yes, it is finally out – go and get Linux Desktop Hacks and enjoy an awfully cool book. 🙂
Mambo

Mambo

You know, I am gonna have to make a conscious effort to blog more. There is one problem with this – there are not enough hours in the day as it is to do my normal stuff, let alone blogging. I will make more of an effort though. I have written MUST TRY HARDER on...
Back

Back

Yes folks, I am still alive and kicking. Last week was a busy mother and aside from my normal chunk of work that I needed to get done, I also suffered from a pretty bad return of the flu. I was quite concerned this was going to bring my back my previous bronchial...
Good meeting

Good meeting

On Friday I headed down to London to see Nick McGrath at Microsoft and this mystery organisation who they have struck a deal with. It was a good meeting and it was good to hook up with Nick again. There is an embargo on who this organisation is until Monday, but on...