Despite being somewhat disheartened by reading why I’ll never have a girlfriend I took it as mere setback. Sure enough a random girl swooned at my feet on the way home from work!
Okay, so I may be using a little poetic license there. Let me rephrase that. On the way home from work a drug-addled crack-whore collapsed on the floor in front of me.
Not to fear though as the ever on-the-ball NHS propose to help cure addicts with a voucher scheme. Yes, addicts will be rewarded with a £10 voucher if they stay drug-free for a week. Now I’m wondering where my vouchers are for not getting hooked in the first place?
I worry about the population with the same mentality that makes pregnant teenage girls take up smoking in order to have smaller babies and consequently easier births. Take up a drug habit and get some vouchers to sell on?
Unfortunately it’s not out of the realms of possibility.
It’s been said in the past that you can judge a man by the company he keeps. If that premise holds true then I must be some kind of hero. I found having so many fantastic people at my surprise birthday party on Saturday flattering and made me realise both how lucky and proud to have them in my life. Some people there actually remembered my 21st – I wasn’t one of them so I was a little anxious about getting too drunk!
In short, to use the words of the great Andrew Gold, “thank you for being a friend…”
I just can’t understand how people can get hung-up on a “big” birthday. Okay, so it’s my 30th birthday but to me, it’s just another number. Like 40 or 50. Maybe some people equate another year gone by as counting as part of their allocation and they haven’t achieved everything they wanted to just yet? I don’t know.
Apple summed up my sentiments pretty well last week prior to the start of MWSF.
I’m thinking about having more birthdays, kind of like the Queen. Not only are they a good excuse for a party but it has been statistically proven that they are actually beneficial for your health too. Yes, people who have more birthdays live longer . . .
My next birthday will be on the 1st of March this year when I shall reach the ripe old age of 11,000 days!
I have more than a passing interest in cryptography, ciphers and steganography (probably due to my fascination with all things spy as a child). You can perform some mind-boggling things with the software freely available on the Internet, which does make me wonder exactly what super-secret techniques are in use by certain government agencies.
Anyway, I finally have two-factor authentication (i.e. something you have and something you know - a thumbdrive and password for example) working on my MBP. My GnuPG keys are all stored on my USB drive and using symbolic links I can now sign and/or encrypt emails or individual documents both at home (using Apple Mail.app with GPGMail) and at work (using Thunderbird with Enigmail) with the corresponding subkey.
Science Daily has posted another one of those pseudo-science formulas that amuse me so much. Doctor Piers Steel has derived a formula for procrastination, although I’m not sure what he was actually supposed to be working on.
Hard work may pay off later, but procrastination pays off now.
In a word: Wow!
The Steve unleashed Apples long-awaited iPhone this afternoon in his keynote at MWSF and it blew me away. So much so in fact that I’ve only just realised that there was no mention of OS X 10.5 “Leopard” or even iLife ‘07.
This story is currently both the most read and the most emailed on the BBC News website. It’s only going to get more exposure (hopefully good) as people start to actually get their hands on them in the Summer.
The knocking of Apple for just releasing another MP3 player in 2001 and the now infamous Macrumors thread #500 looks silly today – but I guess hindsight is always 20/20. I hope this has the same effect on everyone who questioned the wisdom of Apples foray into the mobile phone market.
They say that they’re aiming for a 1% market share, or about 10 million unit sales. Shouldn’t be too tricky. It could also prove to be the catalyst for Nokia et al to start to bring some fresh new ideas to the table.
Man, do I wish I bought a metric ass-load of Apple stock seven years ago!
I’ve got a few things I’d like to experiment with but I guess it’s somewhat akin to a chef coming home to whip up a three-course dinner in the evening. After coding all day, pretty much the last thing I want to do is sit down and start trying to devise some mod_rewrite rules.
As outlined on blandname I’ve compressed the JavaScript libraries for Prototype, Scriptaculous and TinyMCE but for security model reasons I still have to have them in various directories to accomodate my various subdomains. That is unless I use some Apache .htaccess mod_rewrite rules of course. Unfortunately, as has been said many times before:
“…mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo”
I’d also like to get around to using Prototype to develop my own forums, calendar widget and XForm-like JavaScript-based form constraints but I have to sleep sometime.