sushiguru*

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Dear Candidates

It’s that time of the political cycle again, and the dreadful charade of a General Election is upon us. We’re one week into the campaign and already I’ve had enough of listening to an endless stream of soothing platitudes from potential MPs, eager to recite the party manifesto.

I’ve come across this, [...]

One of the things I frequently come up against, and ended up coding what I consider to be a nice little workaround for, is processing a large form with many elements, and preparing the insert statement to follow.  The following method allows you to continue to add elements onto your form and the database table.

This [...]

Had to get that off my chest.  Why is it that these worthless cretins seem to have spectacularly failed to understand that THEY REPRESENT US, THE VOTING PUBLIC.

We put them into power, we can just as easily remove them again; if only the majority of the public would wake up and realise that they are [...]

The BBC have their public consultation document on change available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consultations/departments/bbc/bbc-strategy-review/consultation/intro
Go on – have your say too.

[update] THIS IS WHAT I MEAN! http://www.theonion.com/content/video/breaking_news_some_bullshit?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

The BBC’s strategic principles

Do you think these are the right principles?

Yes.

Should the BBC have any other strategic principles?

To work to regain public confidence, to state that the BBC should act as a [...]

Evan Davis questions Peter Mandelson.

ED    …the Child Poverty Ligislation is simply going to ensrine the target, which we already have, to eradicate child poverty by 2020 while you’re missing the target to halve child poverty by 2010.  Can you say that any child as a result of the bill you’ll be trying to present to [...]

So I got my new G2 a couple of months ago and haven’t put it down that much since.  Well, last night I installed *something* (game/app) that stopped the accelerometer working.  I was close to tears.  Not really.  But I was bloody irritated and it took a while to find out how to kick-start it [...]

Am simply outraged that some clever bugger decided to launch an iPhone app that talls you the name of sushi dishes, and they decided to call it sushiguru.  Had they never heard of Google before naming their product?

Ponders: are they, in fact, infringing my trademark…?

Had a hair cut the other day.  It’s not an occasion that happens very often in my life; I have little of it left, though my wife did persuade me to grow it a little as by usual home-done buzz-cut was making me look more and more like either:

A deranged, escaped mental patient; or
A deranged, [...]

Aargh.  Came across an old problem with a spreadsheet today; trying to create and then write values to a dynamic array in VBA.

The position is that I’m trying to write email addresses to a file for a bulk mailing; the mail client particularly likes the local part of the email addresses in a comma delimited [...]