Archive for May, 2006

Company Loyalty = Stockholm Syndrome?

Friday, May 19th, 2006

It's been a tough week in the day job but finally this week is over and I can throw it on the memory slag heap and relax over the weekend with the kids. For the first weekend in a long time, I feel pretty content. That will speak volumes to ...

Schmackbooks

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Apple's latest offerings, the MacBook, completes their lineup. This evokes many little brain explosions over here at Infurious' International Corporate Headquarters.    ?????? These represent Apple's foray into ultra-mobile computing. They admit the Macbook line is now complete meaning we've gone from 5 models (2 iBook, 3 PowerBook) to 3 models (1 ...

Games? I’ll give you games….ZAP!

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Those words, uttered by Kevin Flynn in TRON more than two decades ago really inspired me. I love computer games. Sure - I may not like them as much as this guy or even these guys but I do love games. I especially like games which allow me to kill ...

My stormtrooper mates

Monday, May 8th, 2006

My buddies Neil and Nick cause havoc in the streets of London while showing their own particular (Star Wars) fanatacism.

Private Beta Update

Friday, May 5th, 2006

For those unlucky buggers who are on the private beta, we have yet another download for them. It's really important to read the release notes and that's why I'm blogging this as no-one ever seems to read the README.    ?????? do not use this beta on production data. I'm serious ...

Making It Purty: a user interface gripe

Friday, May 5th, 2006

We're implementing some user-interface gubbins tonight and we've bumped into one of those things that remind you were dealing with a work in progress and not the be-all and end-all of Integrated Development Environments. I'm not a coder so it just annoys me. The annoyance? I like rounded text fields for ...

Don’t quit the day job, pal.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Erick Schonfeld at Business 2.0 has a rather fabulous article about how you can start and maintain a business without quitting the day job. His points:    1. Use Your Salary as Funding    2. Turn Common Complaints Into a Business Plan    3. Make Your Boss a Beta Tester    4. Take Advantage of Your Company's Reputation    5. Convert ...

Planetary icons

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

I didn't realise until recently just how much association I create between an activity and the icon for its application. This has come about because I've started using a few new apps (and had others open more frequently than I used to before) and I've noticed I'm spending more ...

Apologies for feed spam

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

I moved the blog to a new server (one which actually allows me to run PostgreSQL), and this may well cause a feed refresh for people (it did for me). Apologies for that. As MJ said, we had the long weekend off—it's been more like two weeks off for me ...