Scorpion in my flat...

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Day 1

As usual not alot to report

Ok, so in light of several factors, mostly because I really can’t be arsed anymore, I’ve decided to give up smoking.

Yeah yeah yeah, shut up bitches… Those that know me will know that the nicotine is possibly the only thing that’s kept me awake at times.

Well… i’ve done this whole give up thing so many times, I abrely notice the first day… Mostly since I just sit down and get on with shit. I hate patches, gum, inhalers… Whatever. They all suck, and it’s my belief that replacing an addiction in one form ...

No I'm not dreaming

Seriously, it's all good

I’d forgotten how nice it is to work in a real IDE for a change.

Over the past few years I’ve worked in a number of IDE‘s… Eclipse, IDLE, Eric 3 and 4, and the various Linux based IDE‘s that claim perfect integration with the language that you’re working with.

None of them, and I mean none compare with Visual Studio however.

Unsuprisingly, MS have really done their homework on VS… Granted I’m using the severely crippled VS Express, but nevertheless it’s still a kick ass working environment.

Tooltips, code complete, indentation, build ...

Pop goes the.. err popfly?

A new name is needed.

Well, considering Microsofts past exploits, they really are starting to embrace the share and share alike concept… If only a teeny weensie bit…

It it however a masterful piece of PR and marketing…

Take Popfly for example. I’ve managed to get an account on the Alpha of this and it is looking like a really interesting approach to the whole web2.0 thing… It is the very essence of what I think of when someone says “web 2.0” to me. e.g. RSS feeds, xml, cross site queries and stuff… But popfly takes it to a whole new ...

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You sir, are are a retard.

Asshat developers and protocols

So bossman asked me a few weeks/months (they tend to blurr together for me), about setting up inbound SMS to the (not-public-yet) helpdesk, so that clients can SMS us with problems since, when connectivity is down, it’s usually the last thing they have left before they call…

Fine I say. Now considering the front end servers are nowhere fucking near the backend servers… as in there’s about 2000km between the 2 sides (think dynamic multipoint vpns), I’ve got to get the messages from one side of the network to the other. Ok. So I’ll just ...