Mondays are for learning

I just learned that "foreach" in c# does an implicit cast. I wasn't expecting that. Turns out to be terribly handy in the code I'm writing though.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-30-2010

• Facebook is censoring marijuana-legalisation adverts
  (tags: advertising freespeech facebook censorship)
• Apple DNA code is cracked by geneticists - when does DNA decoding stop being news?
  (tags: genetics fruit apples science)
• A brief, and not entirely accurate, history of Europe, portrayed by cartoon blobs
  (tags: history europe comic)
• How people treat computers like people. The bit about Clippy is excellent
  (tags: psychology technology ui design)
• The price of Britain's disappearing wildlife
  (tags: nature uk)
• AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year
  (tags: amd ati branding marketing technology)
• Building a homebrew Cray-1A
  (tags: retro computers history cray)
• The next season of Dr Who will be split int two parts
  (tags: drwho tv)
• Regrets of the dying
  (tags: psychology health)

Desperately Seeking Neologism

If there isn't a word for "the futures we used to have" then there ought to be.

I seem to have developed a taste for 90s trance

[Poll #1612610]

Poll inspired by me having discovered the band Union Jack, suddenly realising that I was bopping along to the music. I _think_ I managed to stop myself before any of my officemates noticed...

That's a _lot_

Worth watching full screen, at as high a resolution as your connection can cope with.

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Up and Down and Round and Round

Today I had my 6-monthly review. I need to buy my manager a thesaurus, because once again he used the word "excellent" four times. Possibly next time I can persuade him to use "awesome", "fantastic", or "EPIC WIN".

My evening went less well, as I completely failed to notice that I was supposed to meet werejud, cairmen and various others for dinner, and werejud's reminder text arrived an hour after I was supposed to be there. I'm not the world's best at being at places exactly on time (although I'm markedly better than I used to be) - but I don't think I've managed to completely forget I'm supposed to be at something in years. My phone provider (Orange) clearly hates me, because the phone message that cairmen left me as they left the restaurant also failed to arrive until an hour after it was left. Altogether a terribly frustrating evening.

The only good thing to come out of it was that Julie and I had a few hours free to rearrange the living room for when the two builders/damp experts come to give quotes on Wednesday and Thursday. I did consider having them both quote at the same time, and using a "two surveyor's enter, one surveyor leaves" policy, but decided that I'd let the insurance company decide which one to go with.

Tomorrow morning I'm giving a presentation on the automated acceptance testing software I seem to have become the expert on for work. Knowing my luck the technology will spontaneously combust when I try to demo it...