At my work, we’re currently looking into adopting a project management / development methodology called Scrum. Scrum, which involves breaking work into two-week segments called “sprints”, is an example of what are known as “agile” methodologies for software development. As the name suggests, agile methodologies are designed to be quick and responsive to customer and [...]

…he might have been able to think of a dish a little more imaginative than fish on bread. Last Saturday I downloaded, for the very reasonable sum of £1.79, a new app for my iPhone: Vegan Recipe Finder by VegWeb.com. (I found it by accident, by clicking on the “New Apps” page in the AppStore [...]

My Monday night group have just started playing Spirit of the Century, a free-wheeling pulp role-playing game based on the Fate system. We’re managing to take our time on character creation (three sessions and counting so far), but as we’re really enjoying it, the system’s looking good, and I’m really chuffed about the characters we’re [...]

I’ve just started reading Frankie Boyle’s autobiography My Shit Life So Far. Wow. This is a list of all the people / things he’s managed to insult in just the *introduction*: Everyone who’s bought the book Ian Wright Tina Turner Michael Jackson Fidel Castro Paul McCartney England football team Michael Jackson (again) The British people [...]

Okay, I do at this point need to declare an interest. I’m an Apple fanboy. Not only have I got an iPad, an iPhone, a MacBook, and a MacBook Air, I have also in the past owned an iBook, a first-generation iMac, and even [drumroll please] a Newton. (Buying a Mustang or a Mondeo, say, [...]

I was on my way home last night, on the final stages of my walk from the station to our house, when I heard music. It was a folky tune, a woman’s voice floating above a simple acoustic guitar. There was something about the quality of the sound that immediately made me think: “That’s not a [...]