As part of the book I’m not writing Pragmatic Cunts here are some of the personalities in history I will be discussing.

Judas Iscariot
Henry VIII
Marcus Brutus
Theodore Kaczynski
Stalin
Hitler (an obvious choice)
Joseph McCarthy

It’s interesting to note that wartime leaders are as a general rule, cunts. They can argue that the ends justify the means.

The one thing that gets on my nerves the most about gmail is that it doesn’t remember which email address of yours was participating in the conversation. I have my work and personal address attached to gmail and my work is the default one, but if I reply to someone that sent me an email […]

Recently there has been speculation (here and here ) or talk that Ning, the innovative social networking platform is a dead end and that it is all but useless to developers as a platform. This was addressed by Diego and on the Ning blog . I’d like to draw some parallels with a company that […]

Last night after our round of cards, Fi, Chops and myself had a good discussion about the effects of the pill on society. The discussion revolved around the premise that the pill is probably not that good for women, due to the fact that it does affect their hormones to achieve it’s results. While on […]

I installed Ubuntu on my desktop in the hope that I can setup a really good development environment. So far it has turned out to be quite good to develop PHP websites, except for the constant battle I’m fighting with Eclipse.
First of all, the documentation for install plugins is hopeless, if not non-existent. There is […]

This is awesome, Google Talk has enabled XMPP Federation meaning that I can set up a Jabber server, and have it linked in to the Google Talk network. I can see some awesome benefits of this, not least of all the decentralizing of the instant messengers.
Companies will be able to run their own servers and […]

Lately, between Backgammon, Chess, Poker and Volleyball, we have been playing 500. It’s interesting to teach new people the game and to see how they take up different tactics. I wanted to enumerate here some of the sayings Dad used to tell us when he was teaching us to play.

Never send a boy to do […]

Google has announced that they are using Intel’s new viiv technology with their Video offering. The blogs are abuzz with Engadget, Gizmodo and Ars Technica featuring news of it and speculating that they are taking on Apple. I can’t help but think that Apple has been in on it, or doesn’t have a problem with […]

Even though I really don’t want to call them New Year’s resolutions, they are. I suppose I’m just quantifying some of my goals for the next 3 months or so. So I’m going to write them here so that they are here for posterity’s sake.

Don’t drink so much. I’m not going to kid myself or […]

I’m so impressed with the dinner I cooked for myself tonight I’m going to post it here.
Chicken breast fillet grilled, on toasted multigrain bread, with fried capsicum, mushroom and bacon. All topped off with a touch of dijonnaise. Delicious.