I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but between preparing for 4th year, and just being lazy, I’ve only gotten around to it this evening. For those of you that don’t know I spent the first six months of 2011 doing an internship at HeyStaks (a social search start-up) under an experimental program [...]
If at any point during this you think I’m being a fan-boy, just scroll to the bottom of the article and read the final two paragraph. Around a month ago my old “feature phone” died an unceremonious death. After weeks of failing buttons and an increasingly unresponsive screen, it eventually gave up the ghost and [...]
I’m in the process of redoing my CV as I want it to focus more on career area, rather than just the mish-mash of jobs I’ve had. I also need to add details of my employment for the last 6 months. One of the gems I found was my job description at Merck & Co.. [...]
So a couple of months ago I threw a nerd-tantrum and rage-quit DropBox. This was mainly due to the intense lack of security that Dropbox was shown to have maintained and their disregard for user privacy. So I trundled along for a few months using only Carbonite as my backup service. While Carbonite is a [...]
I’ve been quite a big fan of Dropbox for years. I’ve recommended it to a people and I’ve used it as a backup system, sync system and all things besides. However given the recent spate of security vulnerabilities that have been discovered, and the changes to the terms of service, I’ve decided to uninstall Dropbox. This [...]
Bravo Twitter, Bravo. ANALYSIS: Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with its own version of it Twitter beta-tested a spine. From Wired: Threat Level via Daring Fireball
The simplest way to play Xbox 360 games is to insert the disc and start playing. However by installing a game to the hard drive you can significantly improve in-game loading times, and can also prevent slight pauses mid game play. It achieves this improvement by virtue of the fact that data rates are faster [...]
I recently read a post on GarlicSim regarding designing software, and it got me thinking. At the moment I’m a hybrid between developer and user. I’m a Computer Science student who will probably end up designing and implementing software systems at some stage, but as of yet I haven’t had any real life experience with [...]
QuickLinks PageAnalyzer Midterm Presentation My Paper Project Code as of the last week of the internship. Be warned. It’s messy! (If you want the latest working (and clean) code see PageAnalyser above) Given my failed attempts to chronicle my internship on a week by week basis. I’ve decided instead to post a brief wrap-up of [...]
It’s essentially a typo in a brochure given out by a small computer retailer close to where I live. I doubt they’re intentionally trying to confuse customers, but I got a laugh out of it anyway.