http://zx-81.com Here we go again Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:46:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The retro remakes compo is go the site is getting a hammering at the moment so this is a link to the blog for details.  I'll add more later. Plus a plea to vote for my favicon for Cymons.  A vote for Stephen Parkes is a vote for sanity mind you ... http://zx-81.com/2008/09/retro-remakes-competition-is-go-a-vote-for-me-plug/ Tomorrow we are having a small private service to bury Isabelle in a local children's cemetery. I've always believed that the hardest thing for any parent is burying a child and I can confirm that seems to be the case what I don't know is if it is harder for a ... http://zx-81.com/2008/08/funeral-tomorrow/ it goes without saying really, I am good :) http://zx-81.com/2008/08/sparkes-1337-you-knows-it/ Will Feral makes his Olympic bow with the Croatian water polo squad. http://zx-81.com/2008/08/guess-who-i-saw-at-the-olympics/ Exactly one week after Isabelle died I got a message from my host company saying they where cutting my service. No reason given at all and they took payment up until the day the service was cut. I can only presume 'unlimited' bandwidth doesn't mean unlimited. So ... http://zx-81.com/2008/08/and-im-back/ Baby Isabelle Rose was stillborn noon 07/08/08, mother is well and is now recovering at home. There may still be a few pending stories stacked on get-shirty.net and nerd.ws but other than that there will be no blogs for a while. http://zx-81.com/2008/08/baby-isabelle-rose/ cross posted in my personal blog and nerd news because I think this is so damn cool. A contest to write a self documenting program. Should be easy shouldn't it? but given that good readable code is rarer than a comment that tallies with bad code it should be an ... http://zx-81.com/2008/08/self-documenting-code-contest/ I managed to get on the Stack Overflow private beta list for being such a nice chap and kissing Joel and Jeff's arses (well 50% right I've never enjoyed the taste of bum) now you can sign up too. Stack Overflow is a programmers (mostly) question and answer site and even ... http://zx-81.com/2008/08/sign-up-for-the-beta-of-stack-overflow/   Perfect amount of Reputation for a Beta website :) http://zx-81.com/2008/08/stack-overflow-beta-user-page/ I'm involved in the Stack Overflow beta test and if/when life calms down enough for me to do some proper coding I'll be offering a few insights into how it's progressing. So far so good apart from the lack of a sense of humour in some of the participants :) http://zx-81.com/2008/08/stackoverflow-beta-test/