Newsweek reports Google's Ten Golden Rules. A marvellous advert for Google? But I am not swayed by the advertising. Let's pretend for a second that Google is not a public company and therefore not suffering a potential financial conflict of interest in following these rules. 1) Hire by committee. Well,…
that 12 days of Xmas meme
I don't have 12 LJ friends. So you only get to see 4 days' worth. But it's strangely apt even so. My True Love gave to me… 11 s a-waddling. 8 s a-glaring. 6 s a-laughing. 2 hamster s.
Microwaves
There is a (semi-)famous interview question of the Microsoft type that states “Design controls for a microwave oven.” Well, lately it crossed my mind and I came to a realisation. And therefore I have worked out my answer to this question (not that I will ever interview at MS) and…
cutting edge gaming
The latest gaming craze that seems to be sweeping (my corner of) the world is Geometry Wars Evolved. It’s an XBox 360 game you can download through XBox live. Everyone in our office is playing it since we discovered it last week… it’s a Robotron-alike with particle effects all over…
Audio memory
The other day I was watching Adam's Rib with Mrs Elbeno. One of the many old movies we enjoy via the Blockbuster-Netflix-alike service. (You only have time to watch a finite number of movies in your life; why watch modern rubbish just because it's recent when you could be watching…
Timeless
There are no clocks in this room. None that tell the right time. The clock on the desk shows 6.50 (stopped). My iPod shows 08:24 as does my PC. Both clearly wrong (but timestamping this post). Two more stopped clocks show 3.14 and 6.00 respectively. A stopped pocket watch shows…
IF Alert!
October is with us again, and that means the 11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition is here. This year we have: 17 Z-code 7 TADS (including 1 TADS3) 2 Glulx 1 Hugo, 1 Alan, 5 Adrift And of course, 3 Windows native executables. Well I’m not holding out much hope for…
after an hour's fiddling…
Got GTK+/gtkmm projects compiling under Win32. Eclipse (CDT) doesn’t really know about pkg-config. So in order to get CDT to drive the command line correctly I had to put the `pkg-config –libs gtkmm-2.4` as part of a -l directive to the linker. It doesn’t work as just a link option…
Real Food
Mexicali chop salad at Real Food Daily? or Steak and kidney pie at Ye Olde King’s Head? I’ve visited both places recently. I’ll let you guess which food I preferred.
Top 50 Sci-Fi shows of all time
No doubt you've seen (via slashdot or elsewhere) that boston.com have assembled their list of the Top 50 Sci-Fi Shows of All Time. (Hmmm… is this the wrong place to be a SF snob and argue about the difference between SF, Sci-Fi, and Space Opera?) Anyway, the full list all…