October 2008
30 posts
Oct 29th
Oct 28th
Oct 28th
“Some might say this is just another three points if you win, but it’s not....”
– Arseblog
Oct 28th
Oct 27th
Form Validation in CodeIgniter 1.7 →
I hate form validation. It’s messy, it’s difficult to configure and keep track of, it sullies otherwise clean code with ugly conditional blocks … I could go on. In version 1.7 (released last week), the CodeIgniter guys have found a pretty elegant execution. Well done guys.
Oct 27th
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable,...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oct 27th
“The closer you are to everyone else, the easier it is to interrupt everyone...”
– Jason Fried
Oct 23rd
Oct 22nd
“I like organisations that are people shaped, not idea shaped.”
– Stephen Fry
Oct 22nd
WatchWatch
John Hodgeman on Fermi, Aliens, Physics, Sperm Whales, and Love.
Oct 21st
“What did we learn Palmer?” “Uh…” “Not to do it...”
– Burn After Reading
Oct 20th
“Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Oct 17th
The Art of Pricing Great Art →
David W. Galenson has developed a statistical method for predicting prices of art at auction. As improbable as it sounds, it’s pretty accurate, and alarmingly simple.
Oct 15th
Oct 15th
1 tag
Last weekend, I...
Visited my old University city (Leicester) to celebrate ten years since the adventure began. Discovered Sophbeck Sessions, a new (to me, anyway) bar in said city - surprisingly good for Leicester if I’m honest. Enjoyed a mighty breakfast in the fabulous Bar Dos Hermanos, Leicester’s finest (if not only) Cuban bar. Read Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes for the...
Oct 13th
The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My... →
Oct 9th
1 tag
Yesterday, I...
Had a lovely coffee and croissant from the wonderful Food Hall on Old Street for breakfast. The best Cappuccino in London. Bought a ridiculously bargainous pair of Jeans from the Japanese boutique store Hurwundeki on Commercial Street. 70% off! Stuffed myself with a 100% Organic, thin and crispy ratatouille Pizza from my favourite Pizza restaurant: Story Deli just off Brick Lane. Popped into...
Oct 9th
“The harder I practice, the luckier I get…”
– Gary Player
Oct 8th
Oct 8th
“I know the ingredients for successful IT, and none of them comes in the shape of...”
– We make IT an irrational beast
Oct 8th
Economics of POW Camp →
Fascinating article from Economica written in 1945 about how a simple bartering system amongst Prisoners of War effectively evolved into a mini-economy, with complex valuation processes and even a form of commodities trading evolving over time. Wonderful stuff. [via Kottke]
Oct 8th
Oct 8th
Oct 8th
Oct 6th
Oct 4th
Best opening to a press conference EVER
Joe Kinnear: Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirror's north-east football writer]?
Simon Bird: Me.
Joe Kinnear: You're a cunt.
Oct 3rd
Hyphens/Underscores being encoded by IIS?
Had this strange problem occur this morning and it turns out that it’s some kind of weird bug in IIS that’s triggered by not having a training slash on the URL. /text-only will be rewritten by IIS to /text%2Donly/ but /text-only/ will not. How weird.
Oct 2nd
Oct 1st
“The total amount of suffering in the natural world is beyond all decent...”
– Richard Dawkins - The Genius of Charles Darwin
Oct 1st