Life
General thoughts and opinions
I recently purchased an item on Amazon that I needed delivered quickly, so I selected Express delivery from the delivery options. I saw a message - did I want to spend £49 and get express delivery on all my orders for a year? I decided against it - most of the time I can live with the delay of supersaver delivery. On the same day, I bought a load of stuff with free delivery.
You may see where this is going - yes, the free delivery stuff arrived yesterday, without a hitch. The doorbell is in need of batteries, so...
I've made the somewhat difficult decision to leave permanent employment and dive into the uncharted waters of contract work. While I've had a good six months back at work, I've been thinking long and hard about how best to move my career along. I've been spending a long time in the car to get to work, and being that far out makes it difficult to work more than 7 hours a day and get back in time to pick up Nathan from nursery. Working from home saves me at least an hour and a half in the car every day,...
On Monday night we finished watching Heroes series 1 on the Sci Fi channel, and even though we've had to put up with it being shown in 4:3 aspect ratio with annoying advert breaks, it's still the best show I think I've ever seen. I have been jumping off the sofa with excitement, almost shouting about how cool it is, and not many shows have ever had that effect!
Now the excitement is going to start all over again, and if you've not yet seen it and you're in the UK, for goodness sake, set your watches for next Wednesday night...
I've had mixed feelings about the recent series of Doctor Who; while I've enjoyed the Doctor's new assistant, Martha, the quality of the episodes has been very variable. The really rather awful Dalek two-parter in the middle didn't help the series much at all, aside from the fact that the Radio Times gave away the plot before it even aired! Grumbles aside, the last few episodes really picked up and have been very enjoyable.
The Human Nature / Family of Blood two-part episode (based on a book by Paul Cornell) was wonderful, then there was the extremely creepy and wonderfully entertaining...
It looks like my last post on documentation (or the lack thereof) has gathered some feedback (Hello Rigel :) so I just wanted to clarify a few points. Firstly, having previously edited books on programming, I find it very hard to read any technical material without a highly critical eye. I find myself getting frustrated when I see simple mistakes, shortcuts, and general sloppiness in articles. I experience similar pain in my day job when I encounter documentation written by others, and often have to stop myself from grabbing that documentation and helping to fix it when I'm supposed to...