http://www.cyganic.com A U-Bend In The Tubes Fri, 07 May 2010 11:57:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... John, I appreciate you will have had hundreds of emails in the past couple of weeks, but I had some dialogue with you around six weeks ago regarding the digital economy bill and I got this address. Firstly, congratulations on retaining your seat. I voted for you - although there was some ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=91 The new Lurpak slogan is 'You don't measure taste with a spirit level'. True. You can, however judge beauty with your tongue. That's why the current Miss World tastes like bacon, personal tragedy and fear. http://www.cyganic.com/?p=86 Well, the cocking thing passed, as was expected. Clause 43, relating to orphaned works and of much consternation to photographers, was deleted in its entirety. Which is good news. 18, regarding governmental blocking of websites deemed inappropriate by the government was also removed, only to have its meaning reconstituted into ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=81 Right, I got very, very angry and wrote to my MP over the digital economy bill, with a side helping of a kicking over always harping on about cocking families. Mr John Leech, I've been looking over yesterday's debate on the digital economy bill. You didn't turn up. So you've lost my vote, and ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=72 Now I know quite a lot of you are going to be tarred with this brush, but fuck it. You need telling. IF YOU BUY 'KILLING IN THE NAME OF' WITH A VIEW TO STOP SIMON COWELL FROM GETTING A CHRISTMAS #1 THEN YOU'RE A TOOL FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS Why be ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=61 Just a quick one. The database for my company's main software product uses M$-SQL, since every two bit company in the universe has a license for it kicking about somewhere, and while adding my changes to the migration script I discovered that the 'GO' keyword makes declared variables go out ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=52 Not much going on in Bradshaw land at the moment. Working on a whole heap of logically interesting bugs that just use standard-ass java constructs, so there's not much to update. I just spent an hour shouting at Hibernate over something I really should have known before, but somehow managed ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=45 Not really a development thing, but whatever... Everyone who uses Linux on the command line will hit this one at one point or another - You 'cat' something, discover it's a binary file, then discover it's completely fucked your terminal, thus: Not so very long ago I used to close and restart ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=34 So. Two asinine celebrities down and everyone, (including me, to my unending and eternal shame) sit round and gape with mouths open. Still, life goes on. I'm back, mainly because I paid my server bill after a whole sodding year, and don't have to duck my virtual landlord any longer. Got all ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=29 Now, I'm not sure if I qualify as a Linux fanboy (I think Microsoft is utter bullshit, everything they do is substandard and available in a better for form, for less money, or free, somewhere else. Doesn't have to be Linux, but it's the best of the current crop, imho...), ... http://www.cyganic.com/?p=21