One my favourite sci-fi authors, Arthur C. Clarke, died this week at the age of 90. The visionary behind classic stories like 2001: A Space Odyssey and City and The Stars (which also happens to have been my read of the India trip) , he is an outright leg-end. Long may his tales endure.
The title of this post is one of his three ‘laws’. Wiki it, foo!
Never seen it played like this before. Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is a farmer, who sells his own produce under the Black Farmer ™ brand, who one day realized that he was in fact the only black farmer in England. Thanks to good PR and interest in his situation, he has made a bundle, even starting a blog about it all. Woah.
I wonder what I could blag being a 1/8 Welsh, 1/8 Irish, 1/4 Greek, 3/8 Norwichian, 1/8 Israeli web developer? Suggestions are welcome.
I have arrived home (last week to be accurate) safe and sound. India was pretty phenomenal, definitely somewhere I’ll go again one day not too far down the line. Back at work now, straight into solid coding, which seems quite distant to be now. More coming up for RR. Also, thanks to Peter for the badge.
Don’t have time to write much to be honest, we’re all sharing a computer out here due to constant power cuts. I’m posting my reading list though, doing plenty of that out here, passes the time nicely.
Not sure what the situation is in the rest of the world but I clocked yesterday why all the young people in Britain are dissillusioned, lazy, and don’t give a flying fuck while watching Mock The Week last night.
We’re told our whole academic life to do well in exams, study hard, get good grades all for that on exam or shot at university, and what does the older generation/media generally say when we consistently get better grades? ‘Oh they …
Talking about TV shows we watched as kids in the office today, nearly forgot the name of my all time favourite show, Bravestarr, but i remembered all the more famous ones, such as Superted, Bananaman, Teletubbies (not really). Interesting.
Leaving for India in the next few days!
Been working on this on and off for the past few weeks (mainly off if I’m honest). Not sure how useful this will be, but here goes! Basically, this is sort of a utility class designed to let you see the results of a search query in a number of formats: an array, un-ordered lists or a table. This can either be printed or returned as a variable for later use. The idea behind this was to let the developer …
Got back from my two-day trip to Paris with my girlfriend yesterday, had a lovely time, and read a very good book called ‘The Forever War’, the first book if the Science Fiction Masterworks collection I’m trying to get through. One interesting thing I thought I’d share was seeing the Eiffel Tower. It is really, really big, and I found it quite funny when I realised, while looking at it from the bottom, that my brain couldn’t quite muster the depth perception required, so it looked like one of those fold-out picture books on a grander scale. Hmmm.
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