Kier's Blog

Wow, I’ve really been neglecting my website for a while. I had an amazing 1902 bullshit comments from spam bots or wankers or something. Luckily Wordpress identified all but a hundred or so as completely lacking of any worth and flagged them for manual verification. Fuck that. All 1902 pointless comments deleted by a single click of a button; thank you SQL.

An unfortunate side effect of this atrocity is that you must now register to post comments. Every cloud has a silver lining however: now you shameless, friendless people with an increased sense of self-worth can’t post plugs to your boring blog that would bring a sloth to tears.

End rant, moving on…

Finally, D4 (our big project of the year) is done and dusted! It was a pretty interesting couple of weeks, despite being filled with stress, aggrovation and late nights. We had to design a fire detection system that could accurately measure temperature, detect smoke and the presence of people from up to four sensors and display that information on a web interface. (continue reading…)

Who the hell designs all this God-awful software these days? There is more poorly written, unstable, insultingly-hand-holdy but slightly glamorous software in existence today than there are water molecules in, on and around the Earth.

Everything feels the need to hold your hand through every single activity you might want to do and most don’t even offer a way of disabling these pointless features. I probably wouldn’t complain if I could see even a wafer-thin shred of usefulness, but I genuinely can’t. Typical example of this being that immensely annoying protection method of everyone’s favourite IM client: MSN Messenger. Whoever the hell decided that it should decide to block access to some files with certain extensions to “protect your security” should be shot in the leg and thrown to the rapists.

“Protect your security,” what a ridiculous statement. (continue reading…)