Category: life
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Everybody else went to bed some time ago. I’m sitting in the dark of the junk room, bathed in the light of the desk lamps while Billy Joel plays the piano and sings. I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole this evening – cleaning and tidying the thousands of blog posts hidden away…
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As the weekend ebbs away and a new week approaches, you find me sitting in the junk room, listening to music, and attempting to shut the rest of the world out for at least a little while. Emptying a few thoughts into the keyboard is proving deceptively difficult. Not quite knowing where to start, I’ll…
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After several days of seemingly endless struggling, I started to make progress today. I’ve spent the last two days pulling swathes of example programming to pieces – not so much asking “does it work”, as much as “how does it work?”. Using a car engine as an analogy, instead of asking “does the engine work”,…
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After several days of seemingly endless struggling, I started to make progress today. I’ve spent the last two days pulling swathes of example programming to pieces – not so much asking “does it work”, as much as “how does it work?”. Using a car engine as an analogy, instead of asking “does the engine work”,…
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Today marked the beginning of perhaps a long journey into the unknown – learning something entirely new – or new to me at least. I’ve been busy reading documentation all day – and writing pages of notes about an endless list of programming frameworks and libraries that I’ve never heard of or seen before. The…
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Today marked the beginning of perhaps a long journey into the unknown – learning something entirely new – or new to me at least. I’ve been busy reading documentation all day – and writing pages of notes about an endless list of programming frameworks and libraries that I’ve never heard of or seen before. The…
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I asked an artificially intelligent machine learning algorithm to draw a concept art character of a 50 year old software developer sitting in a room full of old computer hardware (so essentially, a pretend alter-ego of myself). The result was interesting. I always find it interesting to see what biases artificial intelligence has – how…
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While sitting here in the dark of the junk room, bathed in the light of lamps that stand on either end of the desk, a server farm somewhere is having a quiet heart attack – having received every blog post I’ve written since 2003. The posts are slowly appearing – back-filling the past towards the…
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Do you ever get to the end of the weekend, and wonder not only where it went, but also what you spent it doing? Last night I sat in bed, wondering exactly that – trying to piece the weekend back together in my head. It was my other half’s birthday on Saturday. After unwrapping presents…
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I’ve been meaning to write something all week – somehow each time I sit down at the computer, something happens to either distract or divert me. Never mind. I’m here now. Better late than never. I’m slowly getting better after the lung infection that floored me for several weeks. The cough has pretty much gone – I’m…
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I was going to go to bed at a fairly normal time last night, but then fell down an internet rabbit hole of my own making. Before I knew it, it was 2am, and the first Formula One race of the new season would be broadcast at 4am – from Melbourne, Australia. I wondered about…
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We just got back from the cinema – after finally seeing the latest (and perhaps final?) Bridget Jones movie. I had heard mixed things about it – some friends loved it, some hated it, some were indifferent. I loved it, and I can’t really put my finger on why. Yes, it’s quite predictable, and yes,…
