I’ve realised that I’m getting a terrific number of page views these days. If you remember I’d spotted my simple page counter flipping over the 100,000 mark on the 1st of January. It’s now over 125,000! That’s nearly 1,500 page views a day on this page alone. I’m impressed!
Busy Week
Things have been hotting up at work. Project Dandy is nearing completion: the admin/cms system should go live before the end of next week, and the front end web site the following week. It’s been a long time coming this one. But it’s looking good. The list of bugs has been under 20 for the last couple of days, and some of those are fairly minor. The test cycles seem to be going well with less than predicted failures for the last one, and the current one looking promising.
An old friend from a couple of companies ago (for whom I got some contract work last year) started full time employment here this week.
This week I’ve been estimating for future work over the next couple of months. Today I saw the outline plans for the next three months. Some of the projects which were put on hold to concentrate on Dandy will be coming back on line. Good, I should be able to reduce the number of parallel branches of development (10 is too many really!)
Disney Et Al Win, Everyone Else Loses
It looks like Disney and cohorts have won the case to keep the ‘Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act’ which extended by 20 years both existing copyrights and future copyrights.
From the Eldred v. Ashcroft website.
January 15, 2003 – We have failed in our effort to get the Sonny Bono Act declared unconstitutional.
So, Disney get to keep making money from Mickey for another 20 years and, to paraphrase a line from the eldred site, we won’t be allowed to sing Happy Birthday To You! in public without paying royalty fees!
Hmmm… Should I get One Of These?
The ultimate PC accessory? PC 12v Cigarette Lighter Adapter Kit.
Link from Ali H (who got it from Rob W)
Boardom
I’ve been answering a lot of posts on the B2 forum tonight. I went there intending to read through the recent posts on my b2 link manager so I could incorporate thew suggestions into a new release. But I got majorly distracted. Ah well! Some other night.
New Harry Potter Book Scheduled for June Release
The BBC are carrying the story June debut for Potter latest. Giving some details of the next Harry Potter book from JK Rowling; “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, which the story says will be a third longer than the fourth book.
I’m looking forward to it. We may have to get more than one copy in our house or there will be fighting 🙂
Bill Bryson’s African Diary
I forgot to mention that I read Bill Bryson’s African Diary the other day. I’d got it as a Christmas gift from Jan. We are both fans of Bill Bryson. I quite enjoyed it, but it did only take me a couple of hours to read; it’s a short book in a small format. One of those ‘proceeds go to charity’ books.
The ‘diary’ only covers a week Bill spent in Kenya as a guest of CARE International. He manages to tell the story, impress on the reader the seriousness of their work, and sprinkle the text with his usual brand of humour, all in a mere 56 pages.
Good.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
I’ve just caught up with The Diary of Samuel Pepys. I’d not read for the last four or five days. It is absolutely fascinating. As are the comments/annotation readers are adding. It’s great that some are very knowledgeable, and include references or quotes.
Recommended!
