Mark Edgington

I attended QCon a few weeks back and Gregor Hohpe of Google was the host of the Architecture track.  This ended with a panel and each had a Rubik’s cube, only Gregor got anywhere near solving it; i think he could have done it if he had any time to look at it.  Anyway, for the past week Ive been trying to  solve it and now succeed on every attempt in less than 3 mins.  I’m pretty happy about this as i remember first seeing one on my granddads key chain in the 80’s, at which point i managed one layer and gave up . So twenty years is not much of a record, but goes to show you can return and conquer at any time.

Yesturday I found a company pass in the street.  It had a name and a picture on it so I typed in the name to Google, found a facebook page and sent a message.  Owner and pass reunited.  The joy of tech.  Also I feel more warmly towards facebook,  as Ive found a use.  I may have to wait another 2 years or so to find something else to return, but it will be worth the wait

I have tried and tried, but, i just can’t come to grips with facebook. The only functionality i like to use is the quick updates from my blackberry, but apart from that nothing. I find the fact that my photos are held in limbo annoying, to the point at which i won’t upload and poke, hug etc are just a joke to me, i get nothing from them. I tried some apps but most seem to be based on pyramid scheme mentality. Roll on the next incarnation.

Iv’e just put together the first draft of a site for my wife’s uncle.  Take a look it’s got some nice pitures in the gallery. www.jscudamore.com

Found this on Digg 12 Invaluable Sites for Web Design and Design Inspiration.

On Wednesday i arrived at Heathrow for my 11am flight to Amsterdam only to find it had been delayed by an hour; not noticing the other flights, i thought nothing of it. However, once i had gone though security the shear number of people told the true story. The flight was then delayed till 3pm, brought forward to 2pm, delayed till 4pm then 4:30pm. At 5pm it was canceled, I left the airport at and went home. All in all a very strange day of sitting looking at flight boards and trying to keep your seat.

oh what fun, i am not the greatest fan of flying, so an aborted landing was not the most pleasant experiance in the past week. We were only about 200 feet off the ground when the pilot decided to go to full power and point his plane at the sky (there are a number of montains around innsbruk, so best not to take chances). The pilot said a cloud bank had come in and it was probably best that he did not land, as he couldn’t see thh ground. Personally i could see the ground just fine, so belive it was more likley the co-pilots first practice landing at innsbruk or maybe there was something on the runnway. Either way it was not may favourite way to land.

I asked my 2 year old, the reply, two backpacks, one red. If only everything were so simple. Of course she managed to get multiple bags and backpacks; to be honest she could start a shop. Now we have the daily movement of items from one bag to another, which seems much like my day at work. I’m sure there is a lesson to be learned in the categorization of items, but I’ll be damned if i can find it.