Category: random


  1. How Has Netball Changed Your Life?


    Recently, an email went around the netballing fraternity asking for stories of how netball has changed your life. I put together something to send back to them and thought I'd share it here too.

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  2. the trouble with being tall


    I’m tall. Not landmark-sized but well above the average for a woman (5’11’). My role model is Allison Janney who is taller than me again and interviews wonderfully on the subject of tall women. I’d like to outline the main points of having this personal feature.

    Good …

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  3. Recognising your Manager


    Someone who provides neither direction nor support for my project when I ask for it is not my manager – no matter where he apears on the org chart

    I saw this on The Daily WTF

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  4. Well-behaved Women


    Well behaved women rarely make history.

    from the fantastic Bumper Stickers II

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  5. Buying AJAX


    I just saw this comment in repsonse to AJAX – is it a design pattern

    My boss read an article about AJAX and said we should buy it. I smiled. She’s funny. She has lots of “For Dummies..” books.
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  6. star programmer


    Star programmer, n.
    A coder who you can’t write about without liberal use of the * key1

    1 liberally lifted from this hilarious post on one of my favorite blog sites.

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  7. Creating Storage


    We’ve recently moved into (another) new flat, and we’re just kind of settling in and unpacking. Its a rented place so we can’t do much with it – we’ve brought shelves and sidetables and stuff and that’s about all we can do. Our bedroom is cunningly …

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  8. UK TV coverage of Netball at the Commonwealth Games


    Well its that time again, the Commonwealth Games. This year they are in Melbourne which means that those of us here in the UK either need to be able to work the video recorder, or be able to stay up until three in the morning!

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  9. wetter than an otters pocket


    Which apparently means "its raining outside"

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