Tsky Blog
Delivering thoughts on living with electro-connection-disorder since 1980.
Tax doesn't have to be taxing...
2012-02-02 (21:49:23)
.. unless you have to pay/calculate/fill out forms/do your annual tax returns that is. Seriously, the UK tax system needs a massive overhaul - too much bureaucratic nonsense and pointless paper pushing. I mean, really - if you're sending me the figures I have to put on a form to send back to you, why don't you just click the button and enter the figures automatically yourself? Hmmm? Yeah, I guess it's better to waste a stamp / paper / time / printing instead huh? Oh and don't get me started on their online systems.....uuuurgh
Anyhow, it's done. Completed with a day to go earlier this week. Next time I consider business bits, I'm getting an accountant to sort it all out!
Anyhow, coding continues amidst a brain feeling like it's running in fog at present.
Hopefully get some really good news next week. We're building some awesome stuff at the moment.
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Ninja Hackster
2012-01-24 (20:58:58)
[epic Karate noise and swiping air movements]
Oh yeah.. getting into the flow - here come the crazy ninja hacks making systems do what they were never designed to do. The brain is starting to fizzle and I'm about to hit hyperdrive on this Netbeans session...
I love it when a plan comes together.
So the coding continues - the epic rollout of system is gathering momentum.
Happy Ninja Hacker Moi.
iPod nano on a watchstrap is very cool. This is what I want - now if it would only make calls too.... hmmm.....
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Codito, Ergo Sum!
2012-01-23 (08:02:47)
I code, therefore I AM!
Software development continues as we launch new systems and services. Working in our new office now (huzzah!). I really love my job- coffee, code, good banter with team players. It's good to be in the coding saddle.
Made some crispy cakes and brunch bars for the days meetings and I've got some croissants for breakfast. Coffee and SVN checkout when I get to work I feel... then attack the day like some sci-fi robot thrashing a centre of population.
Come on world.. I'll eat you for breakfast!
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Coding, Launching, Purchase....
2012-01-16 (23:17:28)
So I'm fervently coding things and trying to get automation in a lot of areas of the system to streamline the sales process for work. Really hope to see sales ker-ching-ing their way through the tills in the next couple weeks.
Not sure what I'd do if I wasn't in this job. Very aware of everyone's love for what we're building and undertaking. Do, or do not - there is no try.
Getting colder on a morning and evening - I wonder how long before it snows...?
Brain struggling to shut off at the moment, could do with some nice sleep - bedtime methinks....
Oh... and I recommend you go buy a profile and advertising from one of bsearcher.com 's plethora of clusters. Go do it.. now!
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Good times, bad times you know I've had my share
2012-01-11 (20:51:09)
So it's been a tough time with trying to get through a load of coding and roll out everything that's necessary at work (but it's not that I begrudge that, quite the contrary - I'm enjoying what I do very much). Wrote several hundred lines of code today and debugged a lot of stuff when Netbeans decided to overwrite some curly braces and trash my code. Nice, thanks for that Netbeans - not as bad as you kiling my SVN commit ability on Friday last week, but getting close to!
So yeah, Apple sent me a replacement for the iPod that I bought for Rach years ago and is now aparently prone to catching fire / setting your whole home ablaze in a chemical NiCad fire. Brand new iPod nano (very, very nice - oh I am getting a strap for this from my Christmas money and switching to using this instead of my Gen 3 Nano. Oh yes)
Really impressed with Apple for sending a brand new unit back instead of sending an old unit or my old unit with a new battery in it. Thank you - that was very good.
I don't particularly like you hounding my work over their business name though, Apple. You don't have the world's monopoly on i preceding everything - especially when it is an abbreviation. Grrrr!
So anyhow, the new year is well underway - I really need to catch up with my mate Aliz as he's been home over the Christmas period and I've still not caught him to say Merry Christmas/Happy New Year/Happy Birthday. Sorry man, I'm uber lame - I know! Really proud of his life progress - thinking about how I met him ten years ago, of how he felt about himself and about how good a man he is looking after his mum and younger bro and his missis, Kat. Fills me with a sense of pride.
Need to crack on writing code.. first it's time to eat. Two parents working + kids = really bad dietary habits. Urgh.... give me the high calorie Indian microwave stuff... and a beer.
Also, side-note. Edu secretary said that the UK ICT curriculum is dull and boring and needs trashing. Amen to that. They're going to start teaching programming. hurrah. Except, knowing the idiots that teach the ICT programme in the UK, I know it's doomed to fail. We'll never get back to the glory days when the BBC Micro reigned in schools and people knew how to program machines. Sadly, I think the UK is doomed to not be a tech leader anymore thanks to feckless governments. Cheers guys, you really screwed progressive generations over.
Also.. another side-note. Nice to see the Raspberry Pi coming out, and that so many of the team are ex-Acorn Computers. That brings a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. God bless you guys, you helped me get into all this computer malarky. Thank you.
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