OneAndOneIs2

At work, we frequently refer to yaks.It's a term we picked up from the Perl community. I imagine it's used by other hacker communities as well, but I wouldn't know.The story goes:You wake up one morning and think to yourself, "I should mow th… more »

It's the Information Age. It's easier to communicate now than it ever has been before, via a plethora of different ways.This is generally a good thing. There are bills being mooted in the USA at the moment that would damage people's ability to commun… more »

I hate Javascript.Mostly because of things that aren't really its fault, to be fair: The DOM is ugly, so JS DOM manipulation is inherently ugly. Most of the JS you encounter is badly-written, because too many people just cobble it together unti… more »

You know those people who send out smug little essays at the end of each year, to everyone they've ever met, detailing how well everything has gone over the last year?Well.. this isn't one of those.So. 2011.The year started out reasonably wel… more »

So I had to go to the hospital for my fractured thumb to be checked this morning. The car park was heaving - one of the problems with so many hospitals being closed is that the few remaining hospitals that are open are very very busy. At one point in… more »