Sunday 31 January 2010

Gnarly weekend in a lot of ways. The week ahead should be plain sailing by comparison. Back to coding tomorrow night I hope.
Now have Zimbra running on a VM at home as the production MX for three domains. Hope my ADSL doesn't die.
Spent the weekend wrestling with Zimbra and various flavours of DNS. Now all tamed and running smoothly. I am the master of my domains.

Friday 29 January 2010

Trying to change the DNS servers for saye.rs from the Serbian registrar to my own ISP. Process is somewhat hampered by my lack of Srpski

Thursday 28 January 2010

Oops that should have been (via @felixsalmon)
Baksheesh is a cultural thing like democracy, right for some not right for others. But this is funny anyway: http://ping.fm/kxTIG
I feel really bloated today.

It's because I'm really bloated.

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Small world #2. I met @felixsalmon through @clarebrew, a friend whom my wife met in the art world. Clare's uncle was a partner at the bank where JP & I worked.
Small world department. @felixsalmon and @jobsworth are in Davos at the same conference. I met Felix when JP sent me to New York. There's more....

Monday 25 January 2010

The great @beardyman has added a keyboard, which may offend the purists, but this is still 58:36 of awesome http://ping.fm/IFOoD

Saturday 23 January 2010

I think Network Solutions have turned off short_open_tag without warning. Bunch of tits.
Is it my imagine, or is Firefox 3.6 a little less glacial to load?
Followed, thanks to the magic of shuffle, by Bad Manners doing the Can Can. From the ridiculous to the ridiculouser.
Listening to it again, making a tTotal of 5:36 of sheer perfection.
Listening to Ace of Spades. 2:48 of sheer perfection. One of the mandatory full volume songs - good job the house is empty.
Tweetdeck 0.32.6 isn't remembering my accounts. Groundhog Day every time I open it. Seesmic Desktop here I come.
Do Androids Dream Of Windows XP? http://ping.fm/Wo7tg
Adeel Akhtar (Fessal) is tea-snortingly funny in the Four Lions preview clip http://ping.fm/ncQOd

Friday 22 January 2010

Is there a free and open source Basel II RWA calculator for Excel/Calc? And if not, why not?

Wednesday 20 January 2010

will code for stock

Sunday 17 January 2010

How do I get a table of integers from a MySQL query to a web page and format them as currency? Nested loops? Really?
is writing nested loops. In 2010. For some reason.
My rule-of-thumb: if I'm writing nested loops I'm doing something wrong. There's got to be a better way.

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Can't get out of the habit of typing search terms into the address bar. At work so no Chrome.
Google Latitude seems to think I spend my days in the Thames, just upstream from Westminster Bridge

Tuesday 12 January 2010

How can I get some work at a French bank?
I'm working at a Scottish bank. There are 3 different types of porridge in the canteen.

Thursday 7 January 2010

It's Cardiff all over again. Where's Monty?
Graeme Smith kneed in the head. At last.
The short stature, the guileless face, the air of not being comfortable at the highest level: Ian Bell is the Sammy Lee of cricket
Current run rate 1.98. Required rate 5.5. Colly & Belly FTD!
Hostile spell from Steyn & Morkel. Time to man up.
Harris getting turn *and* bounce. Not a good sign (unless you're bokke)
Today we find out if Ian Bell is man or boy.

Tuesday 5 January 2010

Family outing to A&E for some treatment to Gilbert's poorly finger

Monday 4 January 2010

Reading Pevsner on East London. My flat doesn't get a mention http://ping.fm/h2a8U