Recent Writing

Love poorly written, pointless, uninteresting wittering? This is the stuff for you.

I maintain a few how to guides and general documentation documents for a number of projects and communities, both open and proprietory, and I've come to a single conclusion; documentation sucks. The average user will not read, will not search and will not put one iota of effort into acheiving what they want, if they cannot …

No seriously, he is. Only cool things matter, to paraphrase Roy T. Fielding.

I spotted celsius earlier on digg, which actually looks quite interesting and I'd happily use it as a replacement for redbull or coffee, especially if it actually helps burn calories more efficiently and wake me up, even if it cost a little more.

I quite like the gstreamer project although previously was a little disappointed to see that it wasn't being actively ported to OS' other than Linux at the time. Granted I could've contributed, but I've not got a deep rooted love for multimedia hacking I'm afraid. However, Christian Schaller's latest entry shows that things are changing and …

Aside from the obvious, I gave my girlfriend a Samsung YP-K3 MP3 player (2GB model) for this "special" day. There are several reasons I lumped for this particular model; including battery life, size and the fact that it uses OLEDs. It arrived a touch before 10am, next day - which is impressive as I wasn't expecting …