I’m slightly ashamed to admit that I just made a discovery about C++ classes that I probably should have realised years ago. If you have something like class A { public: virtual void fn() { cout << “I’m A” << endl;} ; } ; class B : public A { public: void fn() { cout […]

Spooky thing – Guns’n’Roses’s Paradise City is quite possibly one of my favourite introductions of all times. I’m not actually wild about the song as a whole, but the first 80 seconds, until the thrashy overdriven bit starts, just hit the spot everytime. Ok, I’m a huge fan of “layering” in almost any song – […]

On the way into work yesterday I saw a Scottish lorry with the logo Thistle Removals emblazoned across the side… … I wondered if they also took out splinters?

I went to an Ebor lecture last week, at York Minster, by the Archbishop of York – John Sentamu. The title was Uncovering the Purposes of God, and he was really talking about the purposes of God through trust and worship of a loving God love for your neighbour care for creation There were two […]

Well, survived my first day in my new job. It’s always an interesting experience starting a new job – new people to meet, new systems and software to learn. I’m very much a pioneer in my outlook, and am happiest when forging ahead with new things, so in many ways the first few months in […]

I don’t think the suffix -trix is used enough these days. It is apparently the feminine version or -tor, thus wherever you could have a (male) -tor, you would have a female -trix. The only two uses that seem to be current are dominatrix and testatrix, but I don’t know why we should stop there. […]

Sorry about all the parenting entries, but I’ve been meaning to say this one for a while! 🙂 One of the thing Ben really likes watching is Storymakers on CBeebies. The basic premise is that when the library closes for the night, these two creatures and a literary magician appear to make stories using all […]

I think my little boy had his first nightmare last night – well his first conscious one anyway. He woke up around 5am in floods of tears saying I don’t like Honk Honk Honk, which would have been quite funny, except that he was so upset. The honk honk honk thing might be one or […]

Go on then – been tagged by watchandweigh who I once shared an office with.. Here goes for my first ever meme… One book that changed your life? The Marriage Book by Nicky and Sila Lee. The affianced and I worked through Nicky and Sila’s course for our marriage prep, and it made us discuss […]

Well, surprise surprise, the accuracy of (native) GPS is not really enough to be useful in a maze, at least not the sort of maze where it’s relatively easy to keep your bearings. The screen resolution also becomes a factor.. if you keep the scale large enough to be able to see paths, then not […]