Geek Overload - Part 0010011

By Neil on September 7th, 2005

What a day.

Jeremy Paxman once said that there are only 10 sorts of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Funny, clever and the only thing that has stayed stuck on my cork noticeboard since day one.

You can’t beat a day coding at the old PC. Some of you reading this can appreciate the raw excitement of this - the moment when you bring the damn electronic beast to its knees and it finally does what you bloody want it to.

The version 6 overhall of my web site is taking for ever but is going to be worth it from a purely personal level. Since redundancy 3 years ago, I have not been able to web code and get paid for it. I was a bit worried at the time that my coding prowess would depreciate over time as would by creative ability. Strangely enough, sitting at work doing the Royal Mail thing and listening to the greatest music in the world fills my head with ideas all the time. I once read that a lot of programmers and designers do their best work on the beach or on long train journeys with nothing more than a notepad and pencil. At last this makes sense.

Pinned to the aforementioned notice board (not in Microsoft Outlook’s To Do List) is a list of web site aims. There is nothing quite like crossing one of these off the list. Today it was - “Display the 5 latest topics from the forum in box on the website”. Not earth shattering by any means but I must admit to punching the air when it worked. Huzzah. And, yes Stan, I will let you have the code it you want. When its works properly that is. I never said it worked perfectly.