I’ll be speaking at the LinuxExpo Conference in London on October 5th. The subject of my talk is “Enterprise Perl”. Here’s the blurb. Perl has always been used by some of the largest and most successful companies in the world. In this session we will take a look at what makes Perl so useful to… Continue reading Enterprise Perl
Author: Dave Cross
Comics and Films and Masks
I saw Fantastic Four yesterday. Not a bad film, but there were a few things that bothered me about it. The biggest of these was the portrayal of Doctor Doom. As every comics reader knows, Doom has worn a metal mask ever since we first met him over forty years ago. We’ve never seen his… Continue reading Comics and Films and Masks
The Scandal of Candles
The Mail can always be relied on to cover the really important issues of modern life. Today it investigates why modern candles don’t fit into older candlesticks. I know it’s a problem that had been keeping me awake at night and it seems I am not alone. According to retailers across the country, they are… Continue reading The Scandal of Candles
English As She Is Spoke
I understand that English is a changing language. I appreciate and approve of the fact that we no longer speak the same language as Chaucer, Shakespeare or even Dickens. But some of the “English” used in comments on this site depress me a lot. It seems there is a large and growing subsection of British… Continue reading English As She Is Spoke
Dave’s First Law of Information
I’m proposing a new law which I’m calling “Dave’s First Law of Information”. It goes like this: Information expands to more than fill the amount of time allocated to deal with it A few years ago I had a small number of web sites that I’d visit regularly in order to keep up to date… Continue reading Dave’s First Law of Information
Dell Customer Service
Not only do Dell have a terrible web site but it seems they’re also in the running for the worst customer service that I’ve seen for some time. When I ordered my new computer on Tuesday there were four special offers listed for the model I bought. They were double the amount of memory you… Continue reading Dell Customer Service
Dell Web Site
To an extent, the problems with the Trainline and Ticketmaster web sites that I’ve mentioned before could be excused because… well because they’re non-technical companies and they don’t know any better. Of course, it’s easy to argue that they should be employing technical people who do know better, but still… But over the last couple… Continue reading Dell Web Site
Bill Hicks
I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel… but I am, so it comes out that way I’ve just finished reading Bill Hicks: Love All The People and that’s the quote that has really stuck with me. I’m seriously considering using it as the tagline for this blog. But then Nik would steal my… Continue reading Bill Hicks
Best of Flickr
This is the kind of thing that makes me think I should stop pretending that I know anything about taking decent photographs.
New Social Networking Site
O’Reilly have launched their new social networking site Connection. I seem to spend a lot of my time recreating my social network on whatever is the current trendy social networking site. In the last couple of years I’ve been on Ecademy, Orkut, Friendster, LinkedIn and probably a few more that I’ve forgotten. Anyway, I’ve signed… Continue reading New Social Networking Site