Like any sensible software developer, I have a close relationship with revision control systems. In my previous job, I was an SCM Engineer (see Software configuration management) which meant I had an even closer relationship than most, since we were running the CVS servers and actively using them to track changes and deployments.
We all [...]
Two lessons booked today, one before lunch and one after lunch. The long term forecast hadn’t looked good, and I thought it’d be a good idea to try and cover the weather. Turns out that my hunch was right, the weather really wasn’t looking that good this morning, but looked like it might [...]
Wasn’t sure what I was going to be learning today! I’ve reached an interesting point in the course where there’s any number of lessons I could do, depending on the weather.
Ideally this lesson would be some revision of slow flight, and an introduction to stalling; but stalling is going to require a decent enough [...]
I really wasn’t sure whether the weather was flyable looking out of the window this morning; the forecast hadn’t been that promising, but today’s METAR was a little better — at least it gave me some room under the cloud.
Phoned the flying school and was told that the cloud base was pretty high, but that [...]
I think I’ve just invented a new sport…
Everyone knows the game of Googling your own name, and finding out all sorts of fascinating things that you have forgotten or didn’t realise had made it onto the Interwobble.
Here’s a new twist, use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine instead and read through things like old versions of [...]
Continuing my mission to put together a kick-ass team to develop the Ubuntu Desktop, the following position is now up on the website:
Posting Date & ID: September 2007 UDD
Job Location: Your home with broadband. Some international travel will be required.
Job Summary: To adapt and develop the GNOME desktop to improve the Ubuntu user experience.
Key responsibilities [...]
