It’s the time of year when all you get on TV and radio are reviews of the year. A few years ago I got an e-mail from a friend of mine; listing everything she had done in the previous year. As I read it I remember thinking “Well that made my year look dullâ€Â. So [...]
Date archive for December, 2005
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2005
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Busy doing nothing
It feels like I haven’t been doing much at all, but as I haven’t had time to sit down and update my blog for nearly two weeks I guess I must have been doing stuff. Christmas always seems to take up time, what with buying presents, wrapping presents, buying food etc.
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Refactoring and Correcting
Spending a lot of time at the computer has one big benefit: I get a lot done, or at least can do :-)
Last night I spent a few hours while watching TV and chatting to friends refactoring the forum software I have written, which eventually will be used to power the universitydancesport website. Its called [...] -
Hat and Thesis
Not the best day ever. I started off by loosing my hat. Was in a coffee shop for lunch after running some errands this morning, and I left without taking my hat with me. When I went back to get it 5 mins later it was gone. Someone just got a new hat for xmas! [...]
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Bone crunchingly good fun
Just got back from the osteopath about my knee.
I have had an ache in my knee for almost 18 months now. This spring I went to see a physiotherapist who diagnosed me with patellofemoral pain. She told me to do some leg raising exercises, and over the next few months told me to just keep [...] -
Rails Migration Issues
Ruby on Rails has this wonderful feature, database migration. The idea is great and solves the common problem of how do you manage your data-models when you update an installation of a project. It works like this
You have a number of “migration” files, each continuing some ruby code to change a database (and code to [...] -
Dr Laurie
A week ago I sat the viva for my PhD. I passed! I’m now a Doctor.
I’m only just starting to find it sinking in. I spent a day or so convinced I was going to get an e-mail from the examiners saying they had changed their mind, then a few days thinking I wouldn’t be able [...]
