wade womersley – york based software engineer
So I got a call around lunch today saying I won the prize at http://startreatment.co/star-access/ for a dinner reservation for Valentine’s today at a nice restaurant, I was a little taken back but very happy – it’s a free Valentine’s day meal for me and my husband, great! As with most of these competition’s I wasn’t expecting to … Read More “Won a @Heineken Valentine’s Dinner Reservation – ONLY a reservation” »
Over the last few days I’ve been working on interfaces to use across multiple programming languages to standardise how some things are done. This stemmed from a requirement to allow processing to be dealt with in any language from any other language. People do this all the time, it’s nothing new, but they generally stick … Read More “Standardising logging and parallelisation in multiple languages” »
I’m not sure what to think of this Lego® trailer for 50 Shades of Grey. I’ve found the whole 50 Shades Phenomenom to just fly by me and now even Lego® is in on it. I feel like this is missing some kind of humour that makes it Lego®. I’m all for Lego® to continue making parodies but this … Read More “50 Shades of (Lego®) Grey” »
Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield office in Denver. Andrew Williams (KMGH-TV) Well as far as hacks go, this is pretty amazing and if they are right and millions of customers have had their name, address, DoB, and social security numbers stolen, a lot of people could find themselves being impersonated over the coming months or even years. … Read More “Massive Anthem health insurance hack exposes millions of customers’ details” »
So today my 18 “bottles” (one was actually a can!) of pale ale arrived from HonestBrew that I talked about yesterday. They arrived in a segmented box with….Styrofoam packaging peanuts! So of course even though I was careful, the kitchen had a light showering of them all over the place as they generally just fly around … Read More “HonestBrew – It arrives!” »
During my recent stumblings I came across a a nice website that ships interesting ales to your door. It’s called HonestBrew. I did a quick Google and found a £10 discount for the first order too so I obviously had to place an order. The signup process was straight forward; you get asked a few … Read More “HonestBrew – Craft Ales to your door” »
Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his “one ring” to school. Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom. “It … Read More “Texas boy suspended after bringing ‘ring of power’ to school – NY Daily News” »
As if the news wasn’t good enough that all Windows 7 and 8 users are going to be getting a free upgrade to Windows 10 – the new Windows OS that promises to be everything we wanted and then some. Microsoft have announced that the recently released Raspberry Pi 2 will be getting a specially … Read More “Windows 10 coming to Raspberry Pi 2 – free!” »
I recently started playing Elite: Dangerous as I’ve always been a fan of the concept of FTL space travel that humans can do and still be aware of without experiencing infinite mass or time appearing to stand still. I’ve spent hours on some weekends just jumping around from solar system to solar system exploring the … Read More “The vastness of our solar system in a video at the speed of light” »
