Archive for September, 2009
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Resurrection, Part I
July 17th 2008 was a dark day. Around 7pm, mostly faithful Mustard rolled his last mile, and came to a very abrupt and violent halt on the north western motorway.
The grim autopsy confirmed our darkest fears, terminal engine malfunction brought about by complete piston disintegration. Since then, not quite willing to give up on Mustard [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Excitment by michelle
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
How To: Spend a wet weekend in Ohakune
We recently had the opportunity to partake in a company-hosted ski trip in Ohakune. Now neither I nor Beau ski, so we decided it would be a good opportunity to practice some more winter tramping, possibly a winter crossing, and refine our alpine skills.
Alas, much to the dismay of my colleagues, the weather gods punished [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in sanitization by michelle
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Stereotyped
Spotted on this brilliant spring Sunday at Muriwai Beach.
Of course, there likely were a string of badly parked cars originally forcing this SUV to follow suit.
Or maybe I’m just naively optomistic?
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Mostly
Our company is on the verge of releasing a major new version, v2.0, of our core product, while still actively supporting the previous version, v1.12.
A concerned colleague asked me how we were managing the flurry of development in v1.12 and how we were deciding what to merge forward to v2.0.
In software development this is a [...]