I had the fortunate opportunity of joining a ‘hands-on’ study session last weekend. It was organised by IRSE Younger Members, and graciously hosted by Signet Solutions in Derby. Was it useful? Yes. What did I learn? Other than how to use the word boffins (clue: it is the antonym to buffoons and normally accorded to…
I feel cheated. I thought at first this was a war story, but then it became a love story, before in the end it becomes a whole mess of loose ends. It is a great book though and it has a great story with complex events and characters, especially more interesting as it shows a…
I am quite a proponent of believeing in your own self, thinking that anyone can do whatever they want, if they put enough effor into it. Practice vs talent. Despite the title of this post, I still believe so. The problem I think is that when you believe you can do everything, you start to…
My eldest daughter was teaching her younger sister to read and was explaining it phoenitically. If you don’t know what phonics is, it is pronouncing the letters the way it sounds, not the way it is pronounced. Yeah my explanation sucks. For example you pronounce the letter ‘s’ not ‘ass’, but instead ‘ssss..’ as in…
I went to a client site today which was around 80km from my house. I normally walked to work so it has been a while since I had to drive to anywhere, for work. I did go to the same site last year but it was with another colleague, who did all the driving. Alas,…
This is a review of the trilogy, covering the three books. Don’t get me wrong, the books are both short, but I am a bit lazy and I don’t think I need to write three reviews for the trilogy. The books tell the story of Arthur and his knights, in a ‘realistic’ way. I say…
The weather was quite nice this past weeks. I would never have understood this before, but I drove around with the windows down last weekend as we went to the beach. Why would I have not understood that? Because in Malaysia, it is blazing hot and you’d be out of your mind (or your air-conditioning…
Muslims in Malaysia go to Friday prayers every week normally wearing a pair of slippers. Occasionally some dishonest person would come with a pair of old slippers, and leave a pair of newer ones. Colloquially known as “kena tibai”, which means got nicked. I think there’s two reasons for this bad behaviour. Firstly is the…
I was in a project management meeting today and inevitably the phrase “working in silo” came up. I was then reminded of the book that I read a few years ago, simply titled Silo. I think Amazon or Netflix has turned it into a movie, but I haven’t seen it. I still remember reading the…
I used to always try new software, all in the hope of ever increasing productivity and making life a bit easier. It normally doesn’t make life easier, but I enjoyed it. My wife didn’t, at least not as much as every time I migrated my drive or storage system/software, she would be dragged along and…
