#BAD09: Climate Change: Reduce, reuse, recycle, relieve and reverse.
Climate change is a reality - to get that out of the way that's my opinion.  I also believe it's mostly anthropogenic - caused by humans.  There is a very direct correlation between our CO2 - check out these graph http://rainforests.mongabay.com/09-carbon_emissions.htm and you can clearly see the start of the Industrial Revolution.  If you argue it's a coincidence I think you're clutching at straws.  Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle... The simplistic tagline for the whole movement but there are some bits missing here, it seems to me.  I t

Cue the Violins
I watched the second episode of the new series of House tonight (Broken part 2) and, I confess, I cried and I'm not at all ashamed to admit it. The plot was brilliant (and a welcome departure from the usual formula) and the closing music Seven Day Mile by the Frames put the finishing gloss on my tear streaked cheeks. Music can do that can't it - I've found myself welling up simply listening to a violin played by Nigel Kennedy.  But sadly those skills are not available to me and at my age I think are beyond my reach.  But writing is not...I'm elated, inspired and excited by House making me blub.  You see I want to write professionally, so to be affected in that w

Testing Posterous
Day 1 of 30 Missed the midnight deadline so back at day one. Testing Posterous to see if I've set it up right. Should do blogger, facebook and Twitter. Posted via email from Chas's posterous

Maybe it is rocket science...
Be a Blogger Day 1 of 30: I was struck by the power of accumulated experience this morning while working on a website. I bet X would really enjoy doing this, I thought. He's a smart guy, he wouldn't be phased by this, it's easy enough, it has structure and patterns that make it easy to see what it does. I was staring at a page of XML.To me it did look comfortingly easy and clear. But last week my Mum pointed out I've been programming computers since I was 16 - as near as damn it 30 years. So I paused for a second, looked at the code again and thought about it. I tried to remember how it felt to first look at a language I didn't understand. I tried to recall that "first d