The death of the beautiful game

According to the BBC Sport site the Manchester City manager Sven Goran Eriksson is to be booted out at the end of the season. If ever there was truly a lousy decision it has to be this. The whole saga is yet another nail in the coffin of the beautiful game. It highlights to me [...]

The secret to making cars - a software developer’s analogy of good management

An interesting analogy occurred to me the other evening whilst enjoying a drink or two with work friends. Our line of work is software development. Specifically in the finance sector. I am the web designer / developer having trained in both disciplines. Much of the work around me is done using technologies ranging from COBOL [...]

Chelsea’s ugly football

The Champion’s League holds huge interest for me. I’m a great fan of football and always have been. For me the golden days were back in the late 70’s and 80’s, a time when I was growing up. Liverpool were the dominant side back then and for a kid were great to watch and try [...]

Be a better coder. Write with support in mind.

Around four years ago I came of age as a software developer. Despite being in the industry for several years, I had always adopted the view that being a smart arse and writing the most complex code possible to achieve the results was the best and only way. I had scant regard for best practises [...]

Left wing ideals crumbling. Help.

I hold the ideal that we can all of us live in harmony without any judgement or beliefs based on flimsy stereotypes and out-dated notions of class. I’ve always held this ideal and will always aim to maintain it. I don’t judge somebody based on their appearance, their supposed ‘class’, their accent, their country or [...]

Tiny kitten pic

Since it’s what blogging people do I decided to post a picture of our new kitten, Rosie. :-) Cute as hell.
She’s just 6 weeks old.

Middle management cnut

So there I was coasting along the dual-carriage way (I’ve no idea what this translates to in other countries. Perhaps you just call it a highway or something. Who knows.) doing a steady 70 mph in my car not really thinking about much other than the news stories that were being read on the radio. [...]

The ugliest place on Earth

Well what a lot of fat and desperately ugly UGLY people there are in the world. I’m currently sat in McDonalds on an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning enjoying what McDonalds atleast call a coffee. Needless to say it’s as good as sewage but when the caffeine demon is calling anything will do. Besides i’m waiting [...]

What all children love to read

For as long as I can remember I’ve always wanted to tell stories. As a kid I had the most active imagination possible. I could easily weave a yarn from any situation. For the most part my stories remained inside my head and were pretty much always a tale of high fantasy involving monsters and [...]

Bollocks to Spring.

Oh dear dear. It’s that time of year again. The time when the sun starts to sit higher in the sky and days are a little longer. Of course it’s still April so a few showers might be expected but today, today is a nice day.
So with a day off work and much relaxing being [...]