Random Stuff
Oh this is just adorable, reminds me of when our cat was just a baby.
Engineering notes from the sharp end
Practical writing about software, systems, delivery, and things that behave strangely under pressure.
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Software
Google has recently launched their own version of public DNS servers, much like OpenDNS. After trying them out briefly this morning, the response time does seem to be very quick from an actual user point of view (browser seems to start downloading sooner than it used to do.) Google even provides a quote to help … Read More “Google Launches new Public DNS – Seems Fast!” »
Holidays
Every time I see the Oasis of the Seas, I am always in awe of it. More and more I want to be on it now, but alas, I have to wait. This video is a short clip about the new Royal Promenade, just take a look at the sheer size of it and remember … Read More “Oasis of the Seas – Royal Promenade Video” »
Random Stuff
Yesterday, we went to Leeds to do some shopping in preparation of our upcoming big day (yes, getting married soon!) At lunch time we decided to go get some food and a drink, we wanted to go to Starbucks but both the Border’s Starbucks and the actual Starbucks shop on the street were packed (20+ … Read More “Costa Coffee Leeds – Unhelpful and Very Dirty/Unhygienic” »
Random Stuff
I love the Muppets, always have, always will. So I was delighted to find this on Youtube. It’s Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody re-imagined by the muppets. Not sure if it’s actually new, but the 1080p quality certainly is new and it is pretty stunning to watch it stream. Enjoy!
Films
I watched 9 last night and while it certainly was emotional, I was left feeling somewhat let down and confused at the end of it. I’m going to talk about specifics in the film here so if you’ve not seen it yet and intend to, don’t ready anymore. It starts off with a guy creating … Read More “9 – Interesting film – Not sure about it.” »
Hardware, Programming, Support
A few months ago at work we realised the need for lots of “nodes” (servers) in the UK and in the US initially. We have a lot of data processing that we need to do and we worked out it would be faster and cheaper if we could distribute the work over lots of servers … Read More “Superb VPS (Virtual Private Server) Provider – VPS.net Review” »
Programming, Software
I was just Googling trying to find out if anyone had wrote an application that wraps PuTTY enabling it to support stored sessions in its taskbar icon right click menu when I came across this extremely useful program instead: PuTTY Connection Manager. It’s a very simple application for Windows that sits over PuTTY but provides … Read More “For PuTTY Users – PuTTY Connection Manager” »
Random Stuff
As I’m currently lacking in things to post, here’s a cat doing the robot… Hopefully I’ll actually come up with something slightly more substantial in a day or two!
Science
It seems the large hadron collider has had no end of problems, which led some people to believe it was due to something in the future time travelling into the past to prevent its launch. But now it seems that it’s almost there as initial tests have finally succeeded. CERN, the Swiss facility where the … Read More “Large Hadron Collider (LHC) only two weeks away from real experiments, hopefully” »