Jem's field notes

Mimi mentioned on last week’s Furry Friday post that Hex doesn’t get enough posts, and focus seems to be on Fudge. This isn’t intentional, I do not have a favourite cat. There are two problems, however, with posting new Hex material… firstly, he refuses to let me take his photograph properly, which means 90% of… read full entry »

Karl’s mum bought me a cat book for Christmas. The Cat Who Came in from the Cold by Deric Longden, to be precise. I must admit, I started it with a little trepidation. Just because I like cats does not automatically mean I like everything to do with cats. However, the book was great, and… read full entry »

I’ve been an avid blog reader for years. As long as I’ve had my own… possibly longer. I read a huge variety of topics, too. From personal blogs (or “journals”) to tech/gadget stuff, marketing, SEO and code to cooking and cats (but not cooking cats). However, it seems that of late all of my favourite… read full entry »

Hex and Fudge have multiple nicknames. Hex is also known as “Noodles” (Hexy Noodles) and Fudge as “Buckets” (Fudgey Buckets). The later, mostly to do with the fact that Fudge’s stomach is like a bucket… a bottomless pit. Case in point: Karl and I had just finished our evening meal, when Fudgey appears… Nom nom… read full entry »

Stephanie told me that I have to blog. But, I don’t really have anything to blog about. Work continues at a reasonable pace bug-fixing and improving BellaBlocks, I’m still mid-way through implementing some code Mat worked on for me, and I’m still all out of sync from the move. Lucky I already broke my blog-a-day… read full entry »

With all jobs, you find professionals with a preferred set of tools. A surgeon works best with a scalpal rather than a hammer; a carpenter with a plane rather than a bag of plaster mix. Sometimes, these tools come in different forms… a rubber mallet is still a hammer, but is better for jobs where… read full entry »

The new flat has a kitchen with a door, which means we can shut it off from the cats and let the piggies get some exercise. So far, they’re absolutely loving it: In other furry news, we’ve finally started the cats on the litter kwitter again. What with one thing and another (waiting for the… read full entry »

Just a minor update… the beta of BellaBlocks went out tonight for some private beta testing. Oh, and Rise of Nations worked in Wine but was dead slow. Gave up in the end, trying a VM. Ubuntu is pissing me off again. I swear I’m not going to let this bloody operating system win. Grr…. read full entry »

When we moved to the new flat, I decided that I’d be setting up both my new and old laptops in my little ‘office’ so that I could run the Dell (Ubuntu) for my coding, any work stuff, browsing etc, and the old VAIO (WinXP) for gaming. However, the VAIO is not a gaming laptop… read full entry »

One of the only downsides I’ve found so far about the new flat, is that the TV signal is total toss. We’ve spent evening after evening tweaking it, poking it, moving it, extending the pointy metal bits, turning it up and down (it’s got a booster thing) and it’s still buggered. We have a satellite… read full entry »