Whilst on holiday in Kenya, the need for smokes was abundant. Amused we were when we stumbled across these:
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Dear America,
It’s 0901 GMT on the 4th of November 2008. I sit here with a copy of The Independent newspaper; its headline “America Votes”. I write this in anticipation that the majority of US voters will elect the most promising and insightful presidential candidate in decades - Barack Obama.
As a British national, therefore an ‘ally’ […]
As many are, I’m captivated by this term’s US election. It’s one of the many subjects that catch my eye when browsing reddit and the like. Whilst attempting to not to be too ignorant I’ve been lightly researching the concepts that make up the electoral stage that make up votes in the US. One thing […]
The latest project at work is using a service tier setup. We have the web front-end that’s using Struts 1.2 (yes, old!), Weblogic 9.2, Apache Axis 1.3, JSON & jQuery. The back-end web services are written in .Net (and how difficult it seems to be for developers to work in .Net). Things at least work, […]
Well, another year has passed. The older you get, the faster it goes. It’s not been a bad year considering last year started with the Mumps, which isn’t recommended at my age. 2007 began with a Skiing holiday in Bulgaria which was very fun and worthwhile. Skiing’s one thing I want to do more of. […]
Well, Placid’s been very busy recently. I’ve recently started mountain biking again, as well as learning Python and involved myself in a project to learn that better (more on that in the future). I’ve been very impressed with Python, and rekindled my love for it after having to move to Perl for work. All I […]