November 2010
9 posts
grounding
There’s nothing quite like being brought down to earth, here are some latest extracts from my Dad’s updates while he’s volunteering in Sierra Leone: Tiny little tribeswomen appear from way out in the jungle, we cannot communicate with 3 of them at the moment, no-one knows their language. Some are very upset and shy. There is one tribe where the woman is left on her own once she...
Imagine Cup 2011 - Student Software Design...
The Imagine Cup is the World’s Premier Student Technology Competition focused on finding solutions to real-world issues. The competition encourages the world’s most talented software designers, programmers, to tackle, head on, issues related to: hunger relief, poverty, education, disease control, healthcare, the environment and other crucial problems facing our world. We are inviting all New...
That's all she wrote...
So 30 Days of blah is over, I’m now going to have to start thinking about what to fill in my blog with from here on in… I’ll try and keep away from memes for a while.
#30DaysOfMe Day 30: favorite song
I made it, 30 days, 30 updates later and I’m still here.So for the final day I’m supposed to pick my favorite song. Truth be told I don’t have anything resembling a favourite song or track or score. How could I pick when there’s so many nice tunes out there?I might have a temporary go to track (which at the moment seems to be Daft Punk’s Digital Love) but that’s...
#30DaysOfMe Day 29: What I've learned
So 30 days is nearly up, only tomorrows post yet to reveal.I’m not sure what I’ve learned in the last month though, it’s really flown by, Perhaps that more people read this blog than I thought? Perhaps that I can write regularly and keep to it for a semi-sustained period of time (note i didn’t spend 30 days writing I wrote a lot in advance) Perhaps that I need to start...
#30DaysOfMe Day 28: a year ago
A year ago this was me: so obviously the addition of Sophie to our family has been the one massive thing to happen this year on a personal front. I wouldn’t say I’m that much different, I perhaps have a new understanding of the lengths parents go to in the early years of child raising. Apart from that my roll hasn’t changed much, I’m still enjoying the same work so really...
#30DaysOfMe Day 27: Why do 30 days of me
As I laid out at the beginning I was missing regular blogging and writing. I’m still not sure where I go on from this, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be quite as personal as these posts have been. Hopefully everyone has been slightly enlightened by these posts and didn’t mind the inane babble at times.
Wellington .Net User Group tonight - Xaml, to the...
Xaml has become a powerful tool for building User Interfaces in WPF, Silverlight and now Windows Phone 7, but how can we leverage this Xaml Processing capabilities for ourselves to improve productivity, readability and maintainability? I will show you a few lesser known/used features of the Xaml Processor, and an Example of replacing plain old xml with fancy Xaml Objects.via dot.net.nz RSVPs to...
#30DaysOfMe Day 26: What I think of my friends
Odd question to be asked to write about, I don’t think it’s approprate to go into a person by person critique but generally speaking my friends are the people from my life who have fulfilled the following: they don’t need me to contact them every week/month. (Most of my friends I see and speak to very rarely, due to being on the other side of the world. I love how we can all...
October 2010
26 posts
#30DaysOfMe Day 25: What's in my bag
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words Apple MacBook Aluminium (2008, 4Gb RAM, 500GB Solid State Hybrid Hard Disk Drive) Kindle v3 External Hard drive (not used much any more but has some files on I refer to) headphones (i have to use loop over headphones as in ear ones just don’t stay in) Cables Cables Cables (IPhone and Kindle usb cables) Apple Remote and VGA...
Open for suggestions
I’ve been quite surprised how much I’ve enjoyed doing the 30 days of me challenge, not many days left (i’ve actually pre written most of the remaining days so I’ve cheated a little) I’m trying to think what I should do to keep writing… I’ll obviously go back to more technical topics but would like to keep some of the more personal entries flowing so...