tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74202336551827062192024-02-08T08:19:54.677-08:00Dominic SayersDominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.comBlogger1070125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-52239428283681890222011-11-01T02:55:00.001-07:002011-11-01T02:55:23.516-07:00I have discovered black coffee.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-39610416256751111622011-10-26T03:09:00.001-07:002011-10-26T03:09:07.437-07:00This is handy http://opencorporates.com <http://opencorporates.com/> (because it's international)<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-8202873910543277462011-10-25T14:46:00.001-07:002011-10-25T14:46:14.302-07:00Chrome version 15 is still shit at multi-column layouts<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-65216773292191776842011-10-25T08:19:00.001-07:002011-10-25T08:19:07.869-07:00An enchanted castle in Barking https://plus.google.com/u/1/108043462979289233324/posts/Ny7uN2Yjyo5<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-14994118211584832142011-10-24T03:12:00.001-07:002011-10-24T03:12:17.456-07:00I gave the government some feedback on one of their web pages and they changed it within 1 working day. Flabbergasted.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-61207501671245030842011-10-21T16:47:00.001-07:002011-10-21T16:47:52.971-07:00CSS Win! You can style all elements without any class by using e.g. div:not([class]) {color:pink;}<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-10731423754199793342011-10-15T03:19:00.001-07:002011-10-15T03:19:32.597-07:00Anyone who isn't backing up their files: absolutely no excuse now: backify.com<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">Surprised @backify haven't heard from Nike's lawyers yet</h4></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-76098776983272955152011-10-14T09:18:00.001-07:002011-10-14T09:18:01.994-07:00Lots of hard work. Not much forward movement. Looking forward to the weekend.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-391322885984164892011-10-13T02:10:00.001-07:002011-10-13T02:10:47.923-07:00Chrsitmas lights going up in Oxford St, FFS.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-24868849903763990802011-10-12T02:33:00.001-07:002011-10-12T02:33:33.945-07:00Another excellent filter for the flood of new programming languages: http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html "You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification"<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-13665469670078244532011-10-12T01:32:00.001-07:002011-10-12T01:32:44.377-07:00http://mycelery.com/ Can this be real? Mind you, would have been perfect for some bank senior executives I can think of.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-29390292948245552532011-10-11T03:42:00.001-07:002011-10-11T03:42:24.233-07:00Another nice-looking new programming language http://roy.brianmckenna.org/. It's all a bit confusing for an old gentleman like me.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">If we exclude on principle all new languages with Significant Whitespace <spits in gutter> then the flow becomes manageable.</h4></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-7725333045956381382011-10-11T03:34:00.001-07:002011-10-11T03:34:06.848-07:00This has yet to happen to me in London: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2oymHHyV1M /HT @DaveGorman<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-50118512155200688442011-10-11T02:06:00.001-07:002011-10-11T02:06:38.584-07:00Seen from my bike this morning: a fellow cyclist whose leggings were a bit more transparent than she thought #polkadotknickers<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-45461571752560989872011-10-10T09:12:00.001-07:002011-10-10T09:12:01.683-07:00If someone registers the Top Level Domain .GPOM they'll catch 90% of the addresses I attempt to type in.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-48679624842115644222011-10-07T03:32:00.001-07:002011-10-07T03:32:40.919-07:00Rails + MongoDB + jQuery-UI = ridiculously easy autocomplete fields<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-88306522450725059192011-10-07T02:26:00.001-07:002011-10-07T02:26:22.225-07:00Who Google thinks you are (surprisingly accurate in my case) http://www.google.com/ads/preferences /HT @jeresig<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">I actually think Google should allow me to make this list public: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences (@jobsworth)</h4></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-11108208371643707232011-10-07T01:46:00.001-07:002011-10-07T01:46:15.826-07:00While I'm on my soapbox... Londoners: it's not "can I get", it's "may I have". This isn't an episode of Friends.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">Would have been a bad day to arrive in heaven. Everyone would have a hangover from the Steve Jobs welcome party.</h4></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-91263341198383074022011-10-07T01:39:00.001-07:002011-10-07T01:39:56.296-07:00A fresh reminder to me this morning that even if the cyclist is 100% right and the driver 100% wrong, it's the cyclist who ends up dead.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">Anger is nearly always a self-indulgent waste of time, but sometimes a man needs to be told he is a cock-juggling thundercunt. Loudly.</h4></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">Yes, it's morning moan time.</h4></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-70820598894567425992011-10-05T07:47:00.001-07:002011-10-05T07:47:07.556-07:00They're putting in a Boris Bike stand 50yds from my house - result!<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-23834107543197611782011-10-04T01:24:00.001-07:002011-10-04T01:24:13.356-07:00Another email asking about *my* CrunchBase API. Read the document, people #wrongsideofbed<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">...and while I'm having a moan:</h4></div><div class="pp_item" align="left"><h4 class="pp_title">Tories: we don't want "leadership" from our government. We want basic services, competently delivered, at a reasonably price. #cpc11</h4></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-678723630880448272011-09-30T06:09:00.001-07:002011-09-30T06:09:44.273-07:00On the plus side, I'm deeply in love with ActiveSupport::Inflector - a perfect example of Clarke's Third Law<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-85515946132290736702011-09-30T05:43:00.001-07:002011-09-30T05:43:49.672-07:00Did none of the geniuses behind Ruby or Rails realise that an app developer might want a field called 'type'?<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-23189200385939569112011-09-30T04:33:00.001-07:002011-09-30T04:33:27.598-07:00Making an omelette. Eggs are going to get broken.<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420233655182706219.post-91189843835836104082011-09-30T04:26:00.001-07:002011-09-30T04:26:08.230-07:00I live on the borders of Limehouse, Stepney Green, Bow Common and (shudder) Poplar so I have some sympathy with this: http://bit.ly/ai33Oo<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item" align="left"></div></div>Dominic Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05932826428389425341noreply@blogger.com0