OneAndOneIs2

So there I was, alt-f4'ing to close windows. And nothing happened. A mild annoyance, but not too bad. Then F5 failed to reload pages. This was infuriating. I'm stuck with an MS Natural keyboard (hate these things) so I went looking for how it had b… more »

"Ever used subversion?" "Nope" "Ever done anything with ASP/VBscript?" "Nope" "You'll figure it out. We need this debugged and then this feature has to be added. Yell if you get stuck." ... He's right, too - it IS a fairly dire way to c… more »

I just finished a meal, put the plate in the dishwasher, and took a few jelly babies out of the cupboard to finish off with. I ate one at random and took two more. A red one and a green one. I looked very closely, and that was definitely what I had.… more »

Every time I want to transcode a bit of a movie for some reason, I have to spend forever looking up the command-line options. mencoder just isn't easy to sit down and figure out. Take today - I needed a three-second clip from a DVD. It took about… more »

So I got a phone call from an agency that had come across my CV somewhere, asking if I was interested in a web dev type job. I said yes, and a half-hour or so later was talking to somebody from the company, who wanted to see if I was interview-worthy.… more »