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I started playing guitar again, and by playing I mean learning something new, not just repeating the same tired old couple of riffs. Feels good and I’m looking forward to learning the whole of “Stairway to Heaven”, possibly the ultimate guitar song of all time. That leaves 4 songs to go…. In other news,...
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Two great white sharks, swimming in the ocean, spied a ship in distress. “Follow me, son,” the father shark said to the son shark and they swam to the ship. “First we swim around the people in the water with just the tip of our fins showing.” And they did. “Well done, son! Now...
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Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write...
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So about that Big 4 concert: Quite good. I did not really know Anthrax, Megadeth & Slayer other than by name, so it was educational. Anthrax was good and I might even buy myself a Slayer album. I fell asleep during the Megadeth bit – sorry Dave. Not to be nasty, but I think Megadeth would...
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…..makes Jack a dull boy ( that’s a bad thing, I think ). Sooooo, I finished up my little private job despite some, shall we say, “challenges” wrt to my work environment - tonight it’s me and the boys from Metallica. My project entailed updating software I wrote some 6 years back called “Problem Solving and Decision...
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