Jamie’s Weblog

As of yesterday, I’m off the crutches and learning to walk again. I broke my other femur as a child and had to learn to walk again when I was 2, so this is my third, and hopefully final, attempt. Currently my gait is quite similar to Edgar (Vincent D’Onofrio as the bug) in Men [...]

So, I’ve been out of work for the past 3 months since the accident but recently I haven’t been entirely idle.  I’ve finished off the personal finance site I first talked about almost a year ago and I’ve also written 2 other Ruby-on-Rails websites and got them deployed.  These aren’t fancy sites but they fill [...]

I’m not a big petrolhead and really don’t care much about fast cars but I always appreciate innovation. When Daewoo first entered the U.K. market they innovated not through product design (the cars were all bad Vauxhall knock-offs) but through customer service: Salesmen were paid a flat-rate instead of commission to encourage honest advice; and [...]

A song that only a new parent could come up with: There’s klingons on the starboard bum, the starboard bum, starboard bum, there’s klingons on the starboard bum, get them off mum! Oh, and babies can have a surprisingly strong grip, particularly when they find something sensitive like chest hair to pull on

Finally, after about 10years, someone has fixed Microsoft’s biggest UI failure in Windows: editing the system path. Previously, you had to edit this huge string, accurately, in a tiny text box, with no validation. Now you can use RedmondPath.

Here are a few things that have particularly annoyed me since Norah was born: Baby monitors. Seriously, most people don’t own houses big enough or well-built enough that they can’t hear their baby crying. And even in circumstances where a monitor might be required, there is no justification for the “parent talkback” system. Seriously, you’re [...]

This is not supposed to be some blog-craze-meme, just something I thought about the other day.  My Dessert Island Foods would be: Meat: Fillet Steak Veg: Sweet Potatoes Drink: Pink Grapefruit Juice Dessert: Divine Dark Chocolate