Here are the slides from my talk last night. You don’t have to agree.

You should also read this Yegge rant if you have particularly strong feelings either way.

There’s something very odd going on with the comments on the Oxford Mail site. No disrespect to the paper, but I have a tough time tallying up likely size of readership with some of the behaviour seen on the site.

O Toaster! What the hell with thee is wrong?

Thy kind hath served my kind for decades long.

A bond hath formed between two nations great,

That decades bond, though, weareth thin of late.

A fascinating bug in Adobe Photoshop. Presented here as a photographic essay. Bug report as photojournalism. I only created one triangle and moved it around a bit.

I have recently been on the job hunt (and come out of it with a new job, thanks for asking). I talked to a number of interesting organisations and answered a proportionally  interesting number of questions. No less interesting is that fact that nearly all of these questions, whilst being ideal interview material, were also the kind of questions that would come up every day as part of the job.

Last night I dealt with the heat the only way I know how.

A quick talk, the same content as given at Oxford Geek Nights in November 2012.

Unit Testing in Go at GLUG : handout version

With the help of @domeheid and @gasmanic. Try using this next time you’re spelling something out over the phone.

Aye

Bee

Cellar

Dvorak

Eye

Faroe

Gnat

Heir

Iain

Jalapeno

Knot

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

Mnemonic

Not

Ouija

Pharaoh

Quay

Rote

Sea

Tchaikovsky

Umm

Vowel

Why

Xi

You

Zhivago

An event to celebrate the second International Bagpipe Day! Held at the Pitt Rivers museum, Oxford.

I was scratching my head for a bit over this one. Using Play Framework v 2.1.0 (Scala) in development mode I was defining my global object as per the Scala Global documentation. But it wasn’t triggering (and, I thought, wasn’t being registered).