This guy at one Hirelite blog made a very good point about those job advertisements you see looking for a “rock star” programmer. Same basic principle applies to “ninja” coders. Stop it, just please stop it. As well as everything that guy just argued, a “rock star” programmer to me means someone who’ll take horrible [...]

The word I wanted to use was removed for search engine optimisation purposes. I just tried to buy a copy of an album online, because it’s fairly decent and I know the guy who wrote it (I’d mention the name of it, but I don’t want it to come up in a Google search for [...]

Like I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been looking at the state of get rich quick schemes on the internet over the last few days. I’m slowly beginning to realise exactly how the internet went from being a proud resource, with some major high quality resources… (who am I kidding, was it ever that good?)… to what [...]

First post on what will undoubtedly become a fascinating insight into the contemporary world. Or at least it’ll seem that way to me when I’m as awake and lucid as I am now (not very). Sorry, I’ve been watching QI reruns and Stephen Fry’s influence still hasn’t left my mind. Something I’ve noticed over the [...]