Original photo by Flickr user alexerde. Bastardized thoroughly by yours truly. These two posts by Keith Peters do a marvelous job at summarising an age-old frustration that most ActionScript developers and I’m certain developers in many other languages, have either faced or actively promulgated.Namely the attitude that while my language is certainly a robust and [...]
Tag Archives: Cynicism
The MacHeist Unlock Scheme
April 4, 2009 – 11:28
If you’re a Mac user chances are good you already know about MacHeist. In summary MacHeist is a bundle of Mac apps sold at a very ridiculously attractive price. Usually if only one or two apps in the bundle appeal to you you already save money by buying the bundle. This is all well and [...]
? Pet peeves
August 28, 2008 – 11:38
Todays topic: Language. It’s etcetera. Not excetera. Aluminium is pronounced ah-luh-min-ee-um not ah-loo-min-uhm. Yes, “ironic” is generally used wrongly, however there really isn’t a good descriptive word to convey the what most people associate with “ironic” so stop being a dick about it. Coincidentally I’ve coined the word “alanic” 1 to replace it, but until [...]
