Entries from September 2008

Retail Therapy

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

I’ve been quite depressed and restless lately. I’m not really sure what the problem is although there are plenty of good candidates. Anyway, for over a week I’ve had an overwhelming desire to plonk down a wad of cash on some extravagant piece of electronics: an XBox360, 20″ monitor, headphones for the gym, Apple ipod [...]

Stuck in the OpenID wilderness

Monday, September 8th, 2008

I’ve been stuck in a rut with ShutterScouts recently. I started out creating a basic template, moved onto the domain model and coded the basic user authentication system. So far, so good, so easy(ish). But then I really wanted to support OpenID — I’d done it for one of my other sites so I figured [...]

Contrary

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

I prefer not to get my philosophical advice from popular culture but this quote struck me as fairly apt: “Never tell a Ranger there’s something he can’t do – it’ll only make him do it bigger, better and with an ongoing sense of interest” — The Unit At the moment I’m fairly intent on doing [...]