OneAndOneIs2

A strength of open-source software is how customisable it is. This is a good thing. However, it has one downside - once you get used to having certain behaviour in place, it drives you nuts to be on another system that has different behaviour.Of cour… 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 »

This came up for discussion about a year ago at work. It annoyed me then. But I let it pass and had almost forgotten about it, when it came up on a forum that I occasionally post to this morning. I don't know what it is about this concept that annoys… more »

So Steve Jobs lost his battle with pancreatic cancer this week. Apple fans everywhere are devastated. A frequent counterpoint to the people bemoaning the loss of a tech industry titan are those who come out with the opposing view "He was just a figurehea… more »

I gave another talk for my local LUG this week. Which maybe wasn't the best idea, considering I had a cold & sore throat. Still, nothing some benzydamine hydrochloride couldn't help sort out..The subject was ssh, and since the audience ranged fro… more »