Over the years I’ve had loads of ideas for projects and it’s no big deal that I haven’t acted on any of them yet. When people do such a good job without me, I really don’t mind. The reality is whatever I do build I’ll be wanting all the building blocks I thought of.
As much for copying later on for my own model, but also because the underlying project is something I think works so well and every company should do, I’m highlighting Uservoice.
Good work chaps. Another thing I don’t have to worry about when the time comes and I need ya.
Ian
While researching Picante de cuy (Guinea Pig with spices), which I’m determined to cook and eat sometime, I came across a recipe for Braised Cat. Unfortunately, this breaks one of my rules about eating meat, as I know what I feed my cat on, but it’s all useful information in a recession.
Tasty cats can be cheezeburgers?. From http://catrecipes.com/recipes/index.html
I’m flying to California on Monday to meet the WANdisco team. I’d rather not fly. I’d like to sail over and maintain my green credentials. But it would take too long so flying it is.
I’m going from Heathrow. The flights are the cheapest and direct, but that means I have to get from Sheffield to London to arrive before 9 in the morning. Not a problem you’d think. We have these great things called trains.
Think again sucker
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For the last six weeks I’ve been working for a company called WANdisco; a Silicon Valley based business with a product that the more I learn about, the more it fascinates me. In development since 2001, the current WANdisco product range is actually a two stage affair. First, a common replication engine called Dcone sits underneath every product and organises a type of Peer to Peer communication between instances of itself running on different physical servers. On top of this runs product specific code for each piece of software WANdisco has support for; currently Subversion, CVS and Jira.
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So, the story quickly:
- I order Oreilly’s Subversion book from Amazon. I have just started working for WANdisco who sell a Multisite and replication solution for Subversion.
- I didn’t ask initially, but when I do my boss is happy to pay for it on expenses, so I just need a VAT invoice.
- I go to Amazon website to print one to PDF so I can claim it (no paper here nosiree)
- “You can’t print an invoice from the Amazon website, but if you contact us we’ll send you one”.
Honestly… It’s true.
I mean. I just don’t get this. They are going to post me an invoice, at their expense, so I can scan it in?
WTF.
Again?
Yep. After nearly 10 years, with just over three in my second stint, today I handed in my notice and will leave Plusnet at the end of February. Although I’m one of a few long in the tooth Plusnetters to move on recently, it’s certainly nothing sinister. I’ve simply decided that a change is as good as a rest, and an opportunity for an interesting new challenge in a much smaller business than BT is something I found it hard to say no to.
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I know it’s not that unusual for random word captchas to be amusing. I’ve seen examples but never had one of my own, until today.
Captcha Fail
I tried to add some more comments but for all the rest what I was offered seemed pretty random. Maybe it’s a special captcha script. If so I might have a go myself 
Also, I wonder if I’ll find out why Plusnet Sucks?
Edit: I’m informed it’s definately a random google captcha, but I still don’t know why Plusnet sucks (at least not for this guy).
My football team may be pants, but at least one element of my sporting life is going to plan…
http://jameseh-uk.blogspot.com/
Sorry James
Someone just pointed out this page about me. It’s odd that I don’t ever remember doing this, although it’s certainly my somewhat over egged writing style.
How very bizzarre.
