I was very impressed by this unique CAPTCHA used for registration at www.xero.com.

Some of you might have noticed that I’ve removed the adverts from yUML. I hate how they added so much “noise” to a site.

Wow, I’ve not blogged for over 40 days. Is Twitter stealing my blogging thunder?

My friends often tell me I make a great coffee. I’m a big coffee fan, so I’ve put quite a bit of research into getting it right. Here’s my tips:

I’ve had a bit of a rest from yUML recently, but by no means has the project stalled. Whilst I’ve been focusing on earning cash to pay bills, it’s been great to see a small ecosystem grow around yUML, and soon I’ll be looking to spend time on the project again for phase 2.

I’m sad to say that I’ve been guilty of downloading and reading illegal eBooks from torrent sites. I know for a fact that many software developers do this. At each place I’ve consulted, I’ve met developers with literally an entire Borders collection on their hard drives (excuse the pun).

I got a Boss ME-50 guitar pedal yesterday, and only just noticed this bold statement:

yUML was a little web app that I created a few months ago. I tweeted about it on Twitter, and the results were both amazing and confusing.

I was trawling through HTTP status codes today on WikiPedia and found the 418 - I’m a Tea Pot status code. How amusing :)

I really need to give yUML it’s own blog or news page or something :)

Until then, a few things that are new with yUML.

Thought it might be nice to add a touch of polish to yUML. We’ve now got:

• Soft Shadows

yUML is a tool that lets you create UML diagrams using only <img> tags. Here’s an example:

I’m a song-writer, and as any song-writer knows, it’s easy to play the same old chords over and over. To get around this problem, I wrote a Ruby program that generates random songs for me. Well, random chord sequences to be precise. I play the chord sequences on the guitar, and incorporate ones I like into my songs.

I’ve been playing with spaces over the last few days, mainly because I often find myself drowning in app windows.

I’ve joined the other billion people on the planet who’s been photographed by the Google Van, and promptly published on Google Maps (street view). This time I was minding my own business on my way to Zolv. Nice shorts!

I’ve investigating applications with documents, discussions and calendars for a medium sized marketing support intranet.

Is it me, or has the world gone totally mad for top 10, 20, 30 lists? I was just looking at Digg/Software and every other entry was a 10 ways to do this, or 20 ways to do that, or 30 best thingymagigs.

I took the plunge and put a Mac Mini and Bluetooth Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse in our lounge. I think they look pretty. It’s all working without complaints too. Recommended.

According to this ZDNet article, Google pay Mozilla $60,000,000 per year to ensure Google is the No. 1 search engine in the browser.

This weekend my good lady was out of town, so I thought I’d clock up some time in Garageband, rather than spending endless hours playing with .NET as usual.

I went to book a flight on Jet2.com today. It made me furious.

step 1: select flight

Due to my hosting company messing me about, I've moved my home page to a new server.

I now need to get all my old posts onto this blogging enging (Mephisto), which should be fun. Watch this space as I'll also be putting up a link to the old pages in the meantime.