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Sometimes you should shoot the messenger...
Unusually on Saturday, we went out somewhere that wasn't easily accessible by public transport, which is a rarity when you're living in London. Given that we would be late, and not wanting to miss out on the quality vintages usually served by my host, I thought I would try out Scooterman, who send a little man on a scooter to drive you home. (0 replies)
Summer in the city
One thing I didn't think about before we moved the offices to Camden was the sheer number of wannabe adults that stream to Camden in the summer. Schoolgirls with black eye-makeup plastered on to look goth like. More goth-lite, really. (0 replies)
Better than all Wight
We've just got back from the Old Park Hotel in the Isle of Wight. Armed with low expectations of the Isle of Wight as a holiday destination (Apparently my memories of holiday camp hell were in fact from Hayling Island, so my prejudice was, as it so often is, founded on misinformation), we set off through driving rain, armed with weather forecasts ranging from driving rain through monsoon to flood and pestilence. (0 replies)
Westward Ho!
Well, Steve and I have made it out to the US at last. There is a little bubble of activity in the Web 2.0 world at the moment, that exists mainly in the Silicon Valley area, with an outpost in Seattle. And we need to be a part of that, which is not achievable sitting in an office in Camden. We were Web 2.0 before the name was invented, and if we're to catch the wave (I'm talking American already), we have to talk to people here. (0 replies)
Beware Geeks bearing gifts
Earlier in the year, Steve, our CTO, came back from holiday armed with what looked like Jaffa Cakes. The ingredients list was in Chinese (he had been to Taiwan), but a Jaffa Cake's a Jaffa Cake – Yes, unless the yummy orange bit has been replaced with peanut butter, and you're allergic to nuts. That was not one of my finer afternoons. (0 replies)
Foolproof
It struck me the other day that if your testing shows your system is foolproof, it's because you're the fool who tested it… (5 replies)
The Frustrations of a Long-Distance Managing Director
We, at mailspaces, are on the wrong coast of the wrong continent. Steve is adamant that if he did it all over again, he'd have pitched up in Menlo Park, and done it all there. But instead chose Islington. Slightly obtuse, perhaps, but we're all prone to that from time to time. (0 replies)
The urge to blog
I just noticed that my co-conspirator Steve Hebditch has started blogging again, after a significant absence. By nature, I am not a natural diarist, partly because I can't believe that anyone would be interested in anything I have to say, and partly because the things I would put in my diary, I wouldn't want to stick in front of several billion potential readers. (0 replies)
Messing around with images
I thought it was about time that I had a fiddle with some of our more advanced settings – In the Support Space, Steve has posted some instructions on how to get a banner in place – And what you see is the the somewhat paltry results of that! (0 replies)
APP
This may mean nothing to most people, but we are using a protocol on MailSpaces that is going to revolutionise interactive linking and content update APP (Atom Publishing Protocol) is the exact opposite of what most people associate with "Atom" – That is Syndication, ie a way of pushing content out – APP does the opposite – It allows a standardised way of publishing content into something (think Blackberry "push" e-mail – It's conceptually the same... (1 reply)
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Sometimes you should shoot the messenger...
Unusually on Saturday, we went out somewhere that wasn't easily accessible by public transport, which is a rarity when you're living in London.
Re: Foolproof
Think I've fixed it for new joiners...
Summer in the city
One thing I didn't think about before we moved the offices to Camden was the sheer number of wannabe adults that stream to Camden in the summer.
Re: Foolproof
I'm saving that quote - properly attributed, of course! If I were still working in QA, it would be on a departmental white board in the morning.
Better than all Wight
We've just got back from the Old Park Hotel in the Isle of Wight. Armed with low expectations of the Isle of Wight as a holiday destination (Apparently my memories of holiday...
Westward Ho!
Well, Steve and I have made it out to the US at last. There is a little bubble of activity in the Web 2.
Beware Geeks bearing gifts
Earlier in the year, Steve, our CTO, came back from holiday armed with what looked like Jaffa Cakes. The ingredients list was in Chinese (he had been to Taiwan), but a Jaffa...
RE: Foolproof
and the "average fool" is the bloke who just attempted to "quote" your response - but forgot to put in a ">" where needed - back to e-mail school for me