Musings of a Software Engineer

The gentle ramblings of a bored software engineer


Archive for January, 2010

Testing at Universities

I was in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago and I went to the Cambridge University Press Shop.  Like a good geek I thought I would look at the Computer Science books that were available and see if there was anything of interest.  I was surprised that the shelf was so small, but then I [...]

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Failed to fix a problem

It must be a sign of my age or something like that, because yesterday was the first time for a long time that I’ve not been able to solve a problem with windows!  I was trying to fix a computer for a relative, what you would expect to be a simple problem that it was [...]

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Even Garfield is using the mobile

Better late than never but even Garfield is using a mobilde phone now!!!

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Review of the Noughties

A really great review from the register of the last decade or is it the last decade!  Anyway a great read about how things have changed in the world of technology.  How the mighty have fallen and the once little start-up seems to be taking over the internet.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/noughties_review/

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There is a flaw…

Well its taken me almost 6 months but I’ve finally found a flaw in my lovely iPhone! With all the “cold weather” that has hit the UK I’ve been having to wear gloves when being outside (understandably) unfortunately the iPhone does not work when wearing gloves. So the screen on an iPhone works [...]

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Millennium Bug Update

Looks like the Millennium bug hit 10 years later than expected… after thinking about it last year I thought the next one was going to be a long way off but turns out it was 2009 -> 2010.  Looks like a number of companies and countries have been effected by problems when everyone was shouting [...]

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