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| Kas Member Level: 25     Posts: 102/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| The Conservative Party is the party of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. They're a right-of-centre party. They ousted Labour, which was the left-of-centre party of Tony Blair. It is true that our conservatives are milder than your Republicans, but they're still seen as the party of big business and the rich. They've also instituted such things as Section 28, which forbade the education about homesexual relationships. A Conservative government is unlikely to be progressive socially, increases in funding to the NHS, breakthroughs in LGBT legislation and improvements to education all came under a Labour government. But given the result of the election, which made a Liberal / Labour coalition extremely difficult, it is certainly the next best thing. A minority Conservative government would have seen no Liberal MPs in the cabinet and no Liberal policies. So yes, it's a good thing given the election made Labour a non-option. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 103/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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Originally posted by Shadic She was certainly a worthy counterpart to your neocon, Ronald Reagan... |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 104/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| That's exactly the thing Labour were foreseeing. The Conservatives are about to undertake severe cuts in spending and are likely to face a massive challenge to their reputation. With Labour in opposition with David Milliband as their young, new leader (he's by far and away the favourite in the leadership contest), they could stand to win by a landslide if the Liberal Conservative government falters. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 105/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I have this, a GT Agressor 3.0. Sheffield has lots of cobbled streets, lots of hills and lots of potholes. I cycle down a canal towpath in the morning, so a sturdy mountainbike is just the sort of thing I need. I also live on the edge of the Peak District, so lots of hills and countryside to explore with it. If you have an iPhone, this is awesome. It's like a GPS trip computer, and I've logged twenty miles this week alone  |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 106/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I probably wouldn't have a career as a web developer. HTML, PHP, CSS, SQL, Photoshop, I learned most of it while I was here. At the very least I'd be a very large step behind where I am now. Honestly. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 107/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I'm twenty six. I started learning to drive about seven years ago, but never finished. Since then, I've learned to ride a motorbike. I've decided to pick up lessons again and pass my test, because I want to hire a car to drive down to Le Mans, France to see one of the greatest motor races of all time :-) |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 108/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| BSc (HONS) in Computing (Software Engineering) from Sheffield Hallam University. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 109/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| My setup |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 110/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I use an app called Cyclemeter for the iPhone. It uses the iPhone's built-in GPS to function as a trip computer. It logs all my journeys accurately, so I can measure how far I've cycled on a trip, in a week, in a month or in a year. It also measures maximum and average speed, plots my route in Google Maps and is a really great way to turn a simple commute into routine exercise. Trust me, the iPhone is already really great at this - and much better than most budget trip computers. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 111/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Right now, at this moment, we can't sleep. Chad's playing Final Fantasy VIII and I'm writing some PHP. Being starved of sleep is usually an indication that you're in a focused mood. The number of games I've beaten after an all nighter at 7AM Saturday morning is... still quite low but it's a very good time |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 112/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I always try to make my code as object oriented as possible. I always end up with a bootstrapping file that is essentially including the application code, configuring the essential parts of the application and bootstrapping the application itself. I usually use Zend Framework for all jobs that don't require a content management system, so this forces the front-controller model as above, but for another reason as well; I can't stand code executing on inclusion of a file. It's absurdly bad practice because it robs you as the coder from being able to control how and when code executes - among other reasons. When using the model-view-controller pattern I've also been criticised making my action controllers too "fat" with logic. Whereas I'm getting much better at learning techniques to abstract logic to the model, I've always liked to make my action controllers like a "script" of things that happen in each action for a coder to read. I've seen some coders put as little as two or three lines in their action controllers, and I'll counter that this can lead to action logic being spread out over several different source code files. I'd much rather fat controllers than tracing logic through three different source code files any day. Zend Framework gives you back some of the precision you lose in pin-pointing errors from a front-controller model by including stack-tracing functionality, so you can trace the flow of control through each function and method call. PHP's standard error reporting was never built for object oriented, complex applications, and better software design, libraries and frameworks have had to step in to do it properly. It's a shame that I learned all about this after my tenure as a developer on the board  |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 113/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Although pretty much everything PHP does is "tacked on", it would be misguided to suggest that one shouldn't use an object-oriented methodology because PHP doesn't implement advanced OO functionality. PHP's OO implementation still allows for significantly better software design than procedural code alone does. I will admit that object orientation is a significant concept to grasp, but there simply is no debate any more. Object Orientation is a superior methodology for software development and will remain so until a better methodology is developed. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 114/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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Originally posted by Zero One One-point-twenty-one jiggawatts??!!?? http://1.21jiggawatts.com/ |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 115/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Which Macintoshes do you run, Bagel? |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 116/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I'm actually going camping tomorrow with the tech and programming community from Sheffield, it's a bi-annual event called Geeks in the Peaks. I went to the last one (some of the photos may not be public). |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 117/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I'm certainly a fan of the "camping with a car" rather than "camping with a backpack". Taking things like a portaloo and a tent big enough that you can stand in make a huge difference, something I've noticed even with limited experience of camping. I think camping will probably just remain something I'll do for Geeks in the Peaks. I'm going to think about renting a camper-van for Formula One Grand Prixs and visiting Le Mans for the 24 Hours. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 118/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Yeah, same. Although I'm really far away. I'd always think about visiting you guys if I was near. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 119/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I was in sixth form at the time, 17 years old. There were rumors going around school at about 14:45 that the teachers were watching something terrible happening on the news in their staff rooms, and the rest of the day pretty much fell apart. People were saying that the Twin Towers had been attacked, one had fell, and the Pentagon had been attacked. Those sorts of rumors in school are often exaggerated, so I didn't believe them entirely - but I got on my bike and raced home. I reckon that was the fastest I'd gotten home from school ever. I got home just in time to watch the North Tower fall live on TV. It was something so big and unbelievable that it left me numb for a few days. I spent quite a few nights watching the news all the way until midnight. September 12th was interesting. I had lots of free periods in school that day, so I bought every newspaper and brought them to the common room to read. I sat there almost all day absorbing information and talking with friends. That week was probably one of the most surreal in my life. I also remember where I was on the day of the July London bombings. I was working in WHSmith Windsor, which is not far outside of London. I was working in the stock room that week, so we were listening to the news reports on the radio, like we had been listening to the radio reports that we'd won the 2012 Olympics just the day before. We were hearing that trains to London were stopping at Maidenhead, so I wasn't sure if I could get home to Reading at the end of the day. I remember there being enough police on the street to be on every single street corner in Windsor and Reading. It was amazing how many officers were around - there must have been a fair number recalled from offices, leave, etc. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 120/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| I picked up PHP, HTML and CSS about nine years ago around the time when I started hanging out at Acmlm's Board and the Final Fantasy VII Citadel. I liked it enough that I studied Software Engineering at university. I've learned a lot about programming and software development at uni, so I can't really say everything I've learned in web development terms I learned on my own. However, I've never had any formal training in PHP, HTML or CSS - everything is self-taught or adapted from what I've learned in other languages while at university. Drawing is something I do infrequently now, but I used to do more often. I've practiced over many years and I've since graduated to digital image manipulation packages like Photoshop, and I'm now using a Wacom tablet. It's still something I like to keep on a very small scale though, so I'm most happy using just an A5 tablet and the $50 Pixelmator app for the Mac. At the moment, I'm teaching myself sewing and dressmaking. I inherited a sewing machine from Chad's mum, who didn't need it any more. I've bought myself some fabric and some patterns for some cushions and I'm giving it a go. It's something I want to replace drawing more and more, to become one of my primary hobbies when I'm older and I've got more experience. I really want to be good enough to make my own clothes and costumes. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 121/143 EXP: 87804 For next: 1816 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| For those of you who haven't been around for a while, I started the original "Genderfreak Blog" circa 2002 at Acmlm's Board. The thread started as I began disclosing my situation online as well as to the people I know IRL, including doctors under whose care I was at the time. An incredible amount of water has passed under the bridge since then, but the story isn't nearly over yet. At the moment I've been living "as a woman" for four years, and it seems so much longer than that - it feels almost eternal, such is the significance of the change since then. I'm currently waiting on a referral for a appointment with London's Charing Cross hospital, where I will be getting a second opinion for gender reassignment surgery ("The Surgery" for people less accustomed to all this crap). This year marks twelve years since this first became an issue for me; twelve years since I accepted something was very seriously wrong and I needed to start familiarising myself with some seriously weird shit if I was going to understand what was going on. When I see my psychiatrist, my counsellor, my doctor now I'm extremely advanced in my treatment, and very few things ever come as a surprise. Most people who are receiving their treatment are barely a year into living in their gender role. Yet I'm now looking at the inevitability of surgery in the next twelve months. I don't have the date yet, as I don't yet have the second opinion I need for it. Yet I know it's there; it's only a formality. It's coming. I feel like I'm on the brink of a precipice of the abyss. It's something I've known was coming for the past decade, and now I'm there. Now I'm there, it's so much deeper and blacker than I thought it would be. Maybe it's bigger now because I've had such a protracted period of treatment - delayed for switching to the National Health Service, completing my degree, establishing my career. Maybe you naturally take more things in your stride in your youth. Where the fuck has the past ten years gone? |
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