Monthly Archives: December 2009
Iceland’s rift valley
Iceland’s rift valley, originally uploaded by Nic Wise. More iceland pics (set on Flickr) and Leonie’s write up of today. Managed a couple of HDRs, but to be honest, the light was SO good all day, the non-HDR’s came out … Continue reading
The Master, The Expert, The Programmer – absolute gold
Zed Shaw has nailed it, 110%. The main thing I noticed about the experts I’ve encountered is they are into impressing you with their abilities. They are usually incredibly good, but their need for recognition gets in the way of … Continue reading
Iceland Panoramic
Iceland Panoramic, originally uploaded by Nic Wise. shot from out the back of the hotel. Waiting for the northern lights to come up now :)
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London Wetlands
prefect place for tweeting ;-) also for walking on water if you are a Coot (and there are a few old coots with telescopes here – they take this bird watching thing way too seriously)
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wandering around london
Leonie and I went for a bit of a wander around London, from Canary Wharf to Tower Bridge, via the Prospect of Whitby, which is a lovely old pub. Nice way to spend a day, esp as it ended with … Continue reading
the cult of scrum
Interesting, from O’Rielly Radar: The Cult of Scrum: If Agile is the teachings of Jesus, Scrum is every abuse ever perpetrated in his name. In many ways, Scrum as practiced in most companies today is the antithesis of Agile, a … Continue reading
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first look at the guardian’s iphone app
I tend not to read many – or any – physical newspapers these days, but I do read a lot of news, all of it for free, and all of it online. Since coming to the UK, my main sources … Continue reading
pair programming – the ups and downs
Mark Wilden has a lovely post on pairing. From my experience, which isn’t a hell of a lot in this case, I totally agree. Especially this bit (I’m cherry picking parts of this, so please, read the whole thing, it’s absolutely worth … Continue reading
how to use the google DNS servers with an O2 Wireless box
Steps: telnet into the router: telnet 192.168.1.254 (you will need a telnet client. Windows, MacOS and Linux all come with them) login as SuperUser, with a password of O2Br0ad64nd (this is public knowledge BTW, but only useful INSIDE your network. … Continue reading
QuickTime, iPhoto, Mac and AVI files (AviImporter crashes)
This is more a google post, if it helps someone. Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I’ve had problems with iPhoto and AVI files (ie, videos off my camera) – and also preview and anything else which uses QuickTime to … Continue reading
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