So was that the summer then?

In the interest of being able to read back on this in years to come and reminisce about what was going on, I should have said something about the weather recently I think. But, I blinked, and it's gone now. Got a barbecue lined up for this Saturday, but I think that's going to be eaten indoors now. Hopefully today's rain is just a blip and a real summer will come back some time next month. A table tennis table appeared just outside my office window at some point while we were in Key West for staff to relieve tension on, but that's had to be hastily dragged under cover today when the rain started. We've not had any of the storms that were promised for the rest of the country yet though, have you?

Very busy with stuff at work right now, have been since we had this reshuffle a couple of weeks back really, lots of meetings and things, but just TONNES of work to do to. Have lots of interesting things that we want to do, but now the development team (all the teams in fact) have been split in two each team seems to have less than half the resources we had as a combined team. Maybe just an illusion though.

We are recruiting! If you are a development type in Kent, or are happy to work in Kent, please leave a message or drop me an email. We particularly want some PHP skills, but as long as you are professional we are flexible, there is more than one vacancy. A proper job ad will be going out soon but if you want to jump the queue get in touch.

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RE: The perfect crime

Nice, I might play with those libraries myself - although the trouble with js libraries is you often have to deploy large files with every page (if not cached).

You'll have to tel me how that drag and drop code works.

muddyfunkster :: 9 Apr :: 2006 :: Comment / reply

The perfect crime

After the fabulous treat of yesterday evening (sausage, beans and fried potatoes for tea AND two episodes of Lovejoy), this morning's long wait outside the office was probably due. No keyholder turned up for over an hour, so I couldn't get into the building. A right stroppy delivery driver did turn up though, with some huge bails of insulation, that I signed for. Now, maybe it's the remnants of gentle TV crime drama addling my brain, but I started thinking, what if no-one ordered these bails of insulation? There was no name on the order, just the building address, and they were quite big, 1.2m by 0.6m by 0.6m (4ft x 2ft x 2ft Dad), and there were five of them... What if there were burglars hiding inside them? Once we'd lugged them into the building, they'd bide their time and then pop out to do the place over!

Only a few points make this unlikely, these bails would be pretty itchy to hide inside, and also the burglars would have to be pretty light. I was wondering, what if you had bubble wrap that was filled with helium instead of just air? How much would you need to balance out the weight of a man?

The grumpy delivery driver got a parking ticket (no deliveries allowed here before 10am), so again that's karmic balance in action I think.

Looking forward to the weekend, my brain needs the lie in I think.

Off to play some more with script.aculo.us, I'm trying out some "drag and drop" type stuff for a site. Don't know what put me off using script.aculo.us until now, I'm sure the code is quite bloaty, and as a proper programmer myself I feel that I should be writing all the bits I need and not including anything I don't need, but this is fun to play with.

Also, haven't looked at Google Earth for ages, so downloading a new version of that, and fixing up my own maps, they've been a bit wonky for quite a while now.

Hmm, forgot the hosting centre were upgrading things today so sorry this page was unavailable for a few hours! I will stack up all of today's "thoughts" into one post and slap it up when I can.

Can we go to Las Vegas again? Why couldn't it have been this Rock Honours show that we won a trip to..?

VH1 announced Thursday that it will debut the "VH1 Rock Honors" next month to pay homage to the gods of hard rock. The inaugural honorees are KISS, Queen, Def Leppard and Judas Priest.

The ceremony, to take place May 25 in Las Vegas, will pay tribute to hard-rock legends much like the Rock Hall of Fame does, with "spoken tributes, filmed packages and performances by some of today's hottest rock acts as well as the legends themselves."

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