Monthly Archives: April 2015

I got this: Hi, My name is Vinay and I am from very reputed India based Mobile Application Development Company. Our Company conceives, develops and manages high quality applications for mobiles. WE DEVELOP CHART TOPPING MOBILE APPS with world class UI & UX … Continue reading →

I don’t like it when I’m being told the flaming obvious. I specifically don’t like it when someone prepares me for a big revelation, only to follow it up with the flaming obvious or other underwhelmingness (underwhelmingness? underwhelmingitude? underwhelmery?). I … Continue reading →

I don’t think I expected to be as enamoured of parenthood as I am now. I thought that I’d give it a damn good go, wait until the children operated at my kind of level and grow into it eventually. … Continue reading →

Given the brave new world we live in where a direct complaint to the complaints department has a lower priority than a tweet or blog post, here’s is a complaint about HSBC – a bank that appears to consider modern … Continue reading →

Big shout out to the folks who made JSymphonic – an alternative to the Sony MP3  Walkman management software – handy as their software has its own proprietary format and they don’t release the software for managing it any more.

There’s an old Northern saying that “shy bairns get nowt” – a relative of the “don’t ask, don’t get” saying, no doubt. I’m trying to put together a new one about the risk averse – hence the title of this … Continue reading →

Having an online presence is something I’ve chosen for myself. This site has been going since October 2001 – 13+ years! I had my first web page in 1995 ish – a combination of the Internet Archive not going back … Continue reading →

Should this ever be necessary, please feel free to erect it. It clearly describes my greatest failure and yet one of the things about myself I feel least inclined to change. Perhaps I can and do do diplomacy, especially with … Continue reading →