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Jankteki: a Jinteki.net Chrome Extension
In the past year or so, the collectible card game, Android: Netrunner has just about taken over my life. I won’t go on about why here, but it’s great. You should play it. One of the more popular ways of playing it is through an online open-source implementation, jinteki.net. Legally dubious, it’s a Clojure implementation […]
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Passive Mileage
In personal finance, they often talk about ‘passive income’ and making your money ‘work harder for you‘. The idea being that you set-up a side project which starts trickling in a bit of surplus cash each month without having to do any extra work. It’s not something I do – most of the traditional ways […]
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Quantified Fatigue
I have had a post in draft since the beginning of the year, all about analysing my running streak as it stands. It picks out the miles I’ve done on it, average mile per run, distributions of milages, that sort of thing. Loads of self indulgent wank, that I felt at the time was “interesting”. […]
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2013: So How Did Those Goals Go?
My last post was entitled ‘Goals for 2013‘. Reading back on it should be quite depressing because I’ve missed just about every objective I set myself: I didn’t really take up BJJ again until about 3 weeks ago when I discovered a Caio Terra affiliate around the corner from where I work. The obstacle race […]
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Goals for 2013
This was an addendum to the streak post last week, but it has kinda developed a mind of its own, so it is now its very own post. Yay. So what of the next year? Are we going for 700+ day streak? Am I going to define some new goals? Well I am, yes – […]
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Overly introspective post about my running streak.
For the past few years, I’ve found running to be a decent way of shifting some weight (slight aside, since the age of twenty, I’ve been the classic yo-yo when it comes to weight – between 11.5 and 17 stone, depending on what the dice spell out in any given week). The only problem is […]
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jquery-mondrian : My Very First jQuery Plugin
I am a massive fan of jQuery. Earlier in my career, we made do with massive custom libraries full of nasty hacks to make everything work across all browsers (back to IE5.5, when I began, eurgh), and this left very little time to have fun with JavaScript. jQuery has corrected that for us – it […]
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The Highland Fling 2011
A little over a week ago, my awesome employers graciously allowed (and paid for) me to trek up to Edinburgh to enjoy the recently-resurrected standards-based web conference, The Highland Fling. The theme was “back to basics”, which covered a whole lot of ground, and brought with it some very talented speakers. The whole event was compered expertly by […]