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Twenty Nine

So it’s my birthday today (5th June), and I’m now 29. Seems like I should actually be older, but there you have it.
It’s sobering to think that when my mother reached this age, she was already five months pregnant with me and had been teaching dance for 13 years (her 42nd annual show is coming [...]

So long, CyberStudio

So we hear today that Adobe is discontinuing GoLive, and I just wanted to mark the occasion. Way back in the day, I worked for GoLive Systems in evangelism/support, and I got the job because of how much I loved CyberStudio (Adobe GoLive’s original name, and Mac-only at the time).

Irate about User Interface

I mentioned recently that I’d imported the posts from my old blog into this one, and I’ve finally had a chance to go through some of those posts and tidy them up. The overall impression I get from the more memorable ones is… man was I grumpy.

Winter Beard

Winter isn’t that far off now, so since I’m a software developer, that must mean… it’s Winter Beard time! This is what I look like at the moment, so who knows what Christmas will bring? (Probably more frequent beard-trimming, if Lauren has anything to say about it.)

And yes, it does get rather red; I know. [...]

Happy Birthday Philo

Today would have been Phil Lynott’s 58th birthday, had he not been snatched from us by drug abuse 21 years ago. If you’re feeling like it, put some Thin Lizzy on and pay a well-deserved musical tribute to The Rocker.
Wherever he is right now, tonight there’s surely gonna be a jailbreak.