Random musings of a restless mind.

One of these is real, and the other is a joke. Can you tell which is which? Remote controlled badgers Remote controlled rats I have this theory that there’s this bunch of guys at the US Department of Defence whose job it is to surf around joke sites looking for potential weapons programs…

It occurred to me a while back that programming games would be far more interesting than doing business applications all the time – anyone who codes for a living could probably agree that you need to flex the brain muscles every now and again… So I did some thinking and came to the conclusion that…

After an evening of stimulating conversation with some of Dim’s work colleagues, we wandered off from the pub with a hankering for kebab (as you do). To our complete digust, we had found that two previously solid joints, Momo’s (which we had both raved about to our mates) and Zaytoon, had replaced their lamb with…

MIT are running a program called OpenCourseWare that allows you to go through most of their courses online for free. They are all non-assessable and you will not get any sort of credit for it, but for people like me who can’t get enough information, it’s absolutely insane! All undergraduate and postgraduate course materials, lecture…

Firstly an introduction. My name’s Jake, I am a consulting software engineer currently residing in Dublin, Ireland having moved up just under a year ago from Australia with my wife Dim (short for Dimitria). The idea of this blog was really about dropping in a few bits of technical info that aren’t really available anywhere…