Archive for the ‘Opinions’ Category
Another Nursery Rhyme
Following on from the previous post, this new nursery rhyme deals with something that affects commuters on a regular basis: (Grand Old Duke Of York) Oh the bus driver from hell Can't see or hear that well So that is why he missed your stop 'Cos he didn't hear the bell When you get [...]
Nursery Rhymes
There's a very amusing ad campaign running on TransPerth trains and buses at the moment, it involves re-written versions of famous nursery rhymes, targeting specific issues that annoy regular users of public transport. For example, there are ads that cover topics such as people not allowing others to leave the train before they push their [...]
Get a Grip FFS
Why is the world suddenly running around blaming Facebook for everything? If everyone just took responsibility for their own lives then we could all just get on with playing Farmville….
Double Negatives Are Not Positive
It seems that a pattern or theme is beginning to form, with many of my online musings taking more of a “personal development” direction, and this is certainly no accident; it mirrors development and changes that are happening in the flesh. One of the things that I noticed recently is the sheer volume of negativity [...]
Procrastination
No matter where you look, irrespective of field of endeavour and regardless of the aims and objectives, you can always find a good supply of people struck down by the “disease” of procrastination. I myself am incredibly prone to this condition, and it is without doubt the number one target on my personal hit list [...]
Happy Solstice!
Depending on where you are in the world, today is either the Winter Solstice (shortest day) or the Summer Solstice (longest day). Now a funny thing happens at this time every year, I usually start telling anyone who will listen that the celebration of Christmas on Dec 25th is a hijacking of much older pagan [...]
I Admit It, I Like Windows 7
Having spent the last few years running Ubuntu exclusively on my laptop, I had started to believe I would never go back to Windows. Then a couple of things happened; firstly I was evaluating Windows 7 on a laptop that would handle XP but not Vista. Once I’d switched off the eye candy, had things [...]
“GO” %^&! Yourself
So, Google have decided the world needs another programming language huh? They might have a point, if they had produced something radically different, but they didn’t. Google’s “GO” is just another C-like language with object-oriented features, supposedly making software development really easy and helping you avoid all the nastiness. They claim all the simplicity of [...]
