 | 06 May 2002 |
World Snooker Championship - Peter Ebdon wins
Fantastic match between Peter Ebdon and Stephen Hendry. Neither of them particularly emotional it's just the rest of us that have chewed down our fingernails with the tension. It was very nearly as good as the Dennis Taylor/Steve Davis final. Some fantastic snooker by evenly matched opponents. It's a pity one of them had to lose. Ebdon won 18-17. 11:44:32 PM
Speculation grows over Alexander's resignation
"Friends of Wendy Alexander expect her to be back in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday to begin her new role as a backbench MSP. " 4:29:22 AM You can take the boy out of the city...
Watching an edition of one of the newer Columbos with Peter Falk and...Billy Connelly Murder with Too Many Notes. Billy must have been doing wee bit of improvisation. Columbo asks him for his address. He replies "Chancellor Street". Of course this is a street in his native Partick near to his boyhood home. Ah luvit, luvit, as Billy might say when he's not too busy promoting the new Lotto. Even better, just checked the link to the programme notes, it was directed by Patrick Magoohan of "The Prisoner" fame and Billy's music conductor character name is "Finlay Crawford" - another running joke from his stand up routines "you find all these Scots with surnames as firstnames, they're this weird 'surname' clan, <posh voice on> 'Finlay, have you seen Crawford?'</posh voice off> WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE" 4:15:35 AM 10 Reasons to Dump Your Java IDE [Devx]
Interesting article. A while ago at work I took stock of what I was doing: putting HTML into an ASP page that called JavaScript Routines and had a Java applet embedded, oh and don't forget the Perl and Java source code in the rest of the Web App. So how to cope with at least 5 different languages/syntaxes at once?...Yes there are some great Java IDEs but when you need to do all the other stuff too I'm afraid I just don't have the kind of memory that can manage to remember all the different productivity features in different IDEs and switch context appropriately. My coding life has been made much happier by adopting Textpad for Windows development. It does everything I want and you can run external apps from within it, it uses very little by way of system resources, almost instantaneous startup, has syntax colouring for just about every language you can think of (downloadable from their site), a brilliant multi-file search and replace and users can regularly update their default clip libraries so that e.g. XHTML templates are available. 2:46:27 AM
Things that make you say "Ooh ya bandit!"
You know that I've been struggling trying to get Radio to communicate with a SOAP::Lite Perl CGI script, well...I copied the files across to my Apache server installation, changed the port number in the Radio script call and...it worked first time. If you can be delighted and annoyed at the same time then that was me. I've easily spent the best part of my free 'developer time' over the last couple of months trying every combination of witchcraft to get this working on IIS 4 on WinME but with no success, Radio just keeps waiting for a response that never completes. Over on the Radio Dev list it sounds like someone else has run into the same brick wall regarding carriage returns/line feeds. Christ you'd think I'd know by now that Microsoft and web standards always have a gotcha. Note to self "Kick myself 100 times, take cold shower then slap with a wet kipper, dose of smelling salts, go to tattoo parlour and get use Apache you glaikit craitur" etched on my hands. When will I learn?
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